JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)

August 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Harvard University

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Harvard Kennedy School
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship

JOE ID Number: 2023-02_111473414
Date Posted: 12/11/2023
Date Inactive: 01/31/2024
Position Title/Short Description
Title: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Section: US: Other Academic (Visiting or Temporary)
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES
JEL Classification: J -- Labor and Demographic Economics
Keywords:
Sociology
Economics
Public policy
Labor policy
Labor economics
Industrial Relations
Computational Methods
Full Text of JOE Listing:

Professors Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School) and David Weil (Brandeis University) are recruiting one full-time postdoctoral research fellow with a PhD in sociology, economics, public policy, industrial relations, or a related field for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. The post-doctoral fellow will be responsible for working closely with Professors Schneider and Weil on a project focused on developing new tools that could help state labor enforcement agencies more strategically deploy scarce investigative and compliance enforcement resources. The post-doctoral fellow will collaborate with Schneider and Weil to analyze data from the Shift Project and administrative sources. The goal is to build predictive models for identifying sectors and companies where workers may face issues like wage theft, violations of paid sick leave, inadequate break time, and scheduling notice problems. They will contribute to the development of a proof-of-concept tool for a target low-wage industry and work with collaborating state labor enforcement agencies to field test the methods. In all, this work will involve significant data construction, computational analysis, managing relationships with non-academic collaborators, and contributing to co-authored presentations and papers.

Applications due 1/8/24
Fall 2024 start

Visit https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/ to learn more about the position requirements, qualifications, benefits, and how to apply.

Application Requirements:
  • External Application URL and Instructions Below
  • Letters of Reference Instructions Below
Application deadline: 01/08/2024
Reference Instructions:
Names of 3 academic/professional references. Letters will be requested for finalists.
Application Instructions:
Send an email to shiftproject@hks.harvard.edu with the subject line “Strategic Enforcement Project Post-Doctoral Fellow Application” followed by your first and last name (e.g., “Strategic Enforcement Project Fellow Application – Jane Doe”).

Attach the following documents as a single PDF:
• CV
• Cover letter/Statement of interest
• 2 writing samples, at least one of which is sole authored (published papers, dissertation chapters, other manuscripts)
• Names of 3 academic/professional references. Letters will be requested for finalists.

Qualifications
• Applicants should have a PhD by September 3rd, 2024.
• Experience designing and carrying out rigorous research using one or more of the following methods: field experiments, quasi-experimental analysis of existing administrative or survey data, computational methods
• Background in machine learning prediction models and programming experience with R or Python
• Substantive expertise in topics including labor standards violation, industrial relations, labor economics, and sociology of work