National Bureau of Economic Research

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Research Specialist – New Haven, CT

Professor Jason Abaluck of Yale University seeks to hire a highly skilled research associate to work on projects investigating topics in health economics, especially focused on health outcomes. The position is funded through the National Bureau of Economics Research and will be located at Yale University.

The candidate will perform research and data analysis for several projects investigating how best to design healthcare markets given how insurers match patients to hospitals and doctors, as well as other projects relating to physician behavior and health outcomes.

Duties include:
• Develop research files from large claim datasets.
• Work independently with senior researchers and programmers in various locations.
• Maintain documentation of datasets and analyses.
• Summarize and present findings; help prepare manuscripts.

Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics or related quantitative field.
• Proficiency in Stata is required; proficiency in R, and Python may be useful but is unnecessary

Preferred:
• Familiarity with the health care system and clinical terms and concepts.
• Prior research assistant experience

To Apply
Please scan the following into one pdf document and upload into the online application:
1) Cover letter describing your interests and qualifications
2) Resume