JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)

February 1, 2021 - July 31, 2021

Precision For Agriculture Development

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Researcher and Post-Doctoral Researcher

JOE ID Number: 2021-01_111466493
Date Posted: 02/01/2021
Date Inactive: 07/31/2021
Position Title/Short Description
Title: Researcher and Post-Doctoral Researcher
Section: Full-Time Nonacademic
Locations: INDIA
Nairobi, KENYA
Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA
PAKISTAN
JEL Classification: F0 -- General
Keywords:
Development economics
Full Text of JOE Listing:

Precision Development (PxD) is a global non-profit organization that harnesses technology, data science and behavioral economics to empower people living in poverty to improve their lives. By providing actionable information to the right people, in the right way and at the right time, PxD empowers poor people living in developing countries to improve their livelihoods, mitigate risks, and advance environmental sustainability. PxD, through its primary project, Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD), delivers customized agricultural advice to smallholder farmers via their mobile phones.

As Researcher, you will provide guidance to PAD country teams in designing and implementing A/B tests and experimental research projects, and contribute to analyzing data and generating research outputs, including journal articles, working papers, presentations, policy briefs, and partner/donor reports.

As Post-Doctoral Researcher, you will conduct research to inform program designs, identify market and behavioral failures, and test potential solutions using latest technologies and data, as well as insights from behavioral economics and data science.

PAD works closely with leading researchers, including Shawn Cole of Harvard Business School and Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences, Michael Kremer of the University of Chicago’s department of economics and new Development Innovation Lab.

To apply visit - https://precisionag.org/

Application Requirements:
  • External Application URL and Instructions Below
Application deadline: 02/28/2021
Application Instructions:
Interested candidates should submit an updated CV with contact information for three references, a cover letter and their job market paper or a recent working paper on our website’s job portal (https://precisionag.org/who-we-are/job-openings/ by February 28, 2021.