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Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zoe Cullen, Madhav Kumar, Yuan Zou, Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Business School
Fields of Research: Economics, Labor Economics, Accounting, Finance
Deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until all positions are filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): May include Lakshmi Iyer, Taryn Dinkelman, Enrique Seira, Joseph Kaboski, Santosh Gautam and Alejandro Estefan among others
Sponsoring Institution: Notre Dame, Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab
Fields of Research: Development Economics
Deadline: July 31st, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Shanjun Li, Valerie Karplus
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford University
Fields of Research: Environmental, Public Policy
Deadline: Review on rolling basis with a deadline of August 8, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Finance Area
Sponsoring Institutions: HKU Business School
Fields of Research: The research area may cover all subfields of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, household finance, macro finance, international finance, and fintech.
Deadline: Review of applications will commence as soon as possible and continue until the post is filled.
Start Date: September 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Principal Investigator (PI), Dr. Matt Kraft
Sponsoring Institution(s): Annenberg Institute, Brown University
Project Scope: The Research Associate will work directly with Dr. Matt Kraft to advance a range of ongoing research projects related to the teacher labor market and teacher compensation reforms.
Fields: Labor economics, education
Deadline: Rolling
Visa: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Research Project: City buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Diego Puga
Sponsoring Institution: CEMFI
Fields of Research: Urban economics and technology
Deadline: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
Location: Madrid (email hiring manager about visa sponsorship policy)
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Poverty Group within the Social Sector
Sponsoring Institution: Inter-American Development Bank
Fields of Research: Poverty, inequality, and social inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Deadline: July 2, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Pinar Yildirim, Marketing & Economics Department, The Wharton School & UPenn; Jessie Handbury, Real Estate Department, The Wharton School
Sponsoring Institution: The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: The job will involve research in applied microeconomics, focusing on projects on the digital economy, transportation and urban economics, and industrial organization.
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed immediately and until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Primary investigators (PIs) on impact evaluations
Sponsoring Institution: The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame
Project Scope: The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) is a research center dedicated to reducing poverty and improving lives in the United States through evidence-based programs and policies.
Deadline: Please submit your cover letter and resume no later than 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, June 30th.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr. Sylvanna Vargas
Sponsoring Institution: Collective Lab, Department of Psychology, San Diego State University (SDSU)
Fields of Research: Psychology, public health, digital health, or general research focused on youth mental health and related areas.
Deadline: Apply by June 7th, 2026 to ensure full consideration. Applications submitted after this date will be reviewed on an as-needed basis, and the position will remain open until filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amrita Kulka and Nikhil Datta
Sponsoring Institution: University of Warwick, Department of Economics and CAGE
Field(s) of Research: Urban, Public Policy, Data Science
Deadline: July 12 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics, Director of the Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics at Yale University, and Maria Kogelnik, Economics Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist
Sponsoring Institution: Economic Growth Center and Inclusion Economics; Tobin Center for Economic Growth, Yale University
Field(s) of Research: International development, gender, labor, and experimental/behavioral economics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Research Managers & Principal Investigators
Sponsoring Institution: Inclusion Economics India Centre (IEIC)
Project Scope: The project focuses on understanding general equilibrium effects of increasing women’s labour force participation by giving women more control on their MGNREGS earning at scale on prices, wages, labor force participation and norms around women’s work.
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Location: Bhopal, India
Sponsoring Institution: NYU Stern’s DHL Initiative on Globalization
Fields of Research: This role will focus on measuring and analyzing the development of globalization based on country-level and firm-level data.
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Raluca Ursu & Xiao Liu
Sponsoring Institution: NYU Stern School of Business Marketing Department
Fields of Research: Economics, Statistics, Marketing, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Physics
Deadline: July 16, 2026
Visa: While we cannot explicitly promise a successful visa sponsorship to any applicant, we are willing and open to consider all candidates, including international students.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ed Pinto and Tobias Peter
Sponsoring Institution: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Fields of Research: Housing policy
Deadline: Rolling – position will start ASAP.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt
Sponsoring Institution: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Fields of Research: Demographics and political economy
Deadline: Rolling – position will start ASAP.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Various AEI scholars focusing on tax policy, public finance, and international macroeconomics.
Sponsoring Institution: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Field(s) of Research: Tax policy, public finance, and international macroeconomics
Deadline: Rolling – position will likely start in the fall.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Various AEI scholars focusing on health care policy, the federal budget, and entitlement program reform.
Sponsoring Institution: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Fields of Research: Health care policy, the federal budget, and entitlement program reform
Deadline: Rolling – position will likely start ASAP.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Josh Angrist, Parag Pathak
Sponsoring Institution: Blueprint Labs, MIT
Fields of Research: Economics, Education
Deadline: Rolling with priority deadline of August 2, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.
Visa: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship and applicants must have US work authorization by the start of employment.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Simon Johnson
Sponsoring Institution: Blueprint Labs, MIT
Fields of Research: Economics, Workforce/Labor, Education
Deadline: Rolling with priority deadline of August 2, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.
Visa: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship and applicants must have US work authorization by the start of employment.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nikhil Agarwal
Sponsoring Institution: Blueprint Labs, MIT
Fields of Research: Economics, AI, Health Care
Deadline: Rolling with priority deadline of August 2, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.
Visa: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship and applicants must have US work authorization by the start of employment.
Sponsoring Researchers(s): Erik Berwart, Sean Higgins, Sheisha Kulkarni, Santiago Truffa
Sponsoring Institution(s): Northwestern University and J-PAL
Field(s) of Research: Development; Finance
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Anya Samek & Erik Johnson
Sponsoring Institution: University of California, San Diego Rady School of Management
Fields of Research: Data Science and Tech Innovation, Urban, Artificial Intelligence
Deadline/First Review Date: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Sponsoring Institution: University of Michigan
Fields of Research: Development economics, labor economics
Deadline: May 23
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marketing Department
Sponsoring Institution: NYU Stern School of Business
Fields of Research: Economics, Statistics, Marketing, Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Operations Research, Machine Learning, Physics
Deadline: June 1, 2026
Visa: While we cannot explicitly promise a successful visa sponsorship to any applicant, we are willing and open to consider all candidates, including international students.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Senior Research Data Support Analyst, YSE
Sponsoring Institution: Yale School of the Environment
Fields of Research: Environment and sustainability, AI/ML systems, operations, and statistics
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Research assistants will work closely with PhD economists and are expected to engage actively in the research process.
Sponsoring Institution: Andersen Institutes of Finance and Economics
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics / Macro Finance
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Heather Klemick
Sponsoring Institution: Environmental Protection Agency National Center for Environmental Economics
Fields of Research: Economics, Environmental, Labor, Microeconomics, Public Economics, Statistics and Econometrics
Deadline: Deadline is June 18, 2026, but we will review applications on a rolling basis and encourage submission of applications by June 2.
Start Date: August 17, 2026. All start dates are flexible and vary depending on numerous factors.
Visa: This opportunity is available to U.S. citizens only.
Sponsoring Institution: JPMorganChase Institute
Field(s) of Research: Finance, applied micro, public policy
Deadline: Rolling review
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Elizabeth Shewark, Ryan Carpenter
Sponsoring Institution: University of Notre Dame
Fields of Research: Developmental psychology, clinical psychology
Deadline/First Review Date: 5/24/26
Start Date: August 1, 2026
Job description, apply directly via Qualtrics at this link.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Barbara Biasi (Yale SOM), Song Ma (Yale SOM), and Professor Zhengren Zhu (Vassar College)
Sponsoring Institution: Yale School of Management
Fields of Research: Projects in applied microeconomics, with a focus on higher education, skills, and labor-market outcomes.
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; shortlisted candidates will be contacted to schedule an interview.
Start Date: July or August 2026
Sponsoring Institution: The California Policy Lab (CPL)
Fields of Research: The Research Assistant/Associate (campus title: Junior/Assistant/Associate Specialist) is a critical member of CPL research teams working on policy issues such as criminal justice, education, employment, health, and the social safety net.
Deadline: Tuesday, Jun 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Awa Ambra Seck and Natalia Garbiras Díaz (Harvard Business School)
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Business School
Fields of Research: Empirical research projects in applied economics and political economy
Deadline: May 18, 2026. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview and a skill test.
Start Date: July 1, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matthew Desmond (PI)
Sponsoring Institution: The Eviction Lab at Princeton University
Fields of Research: Sociology, housing inequality research, poverty research
Deadline: Rolling review
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ashwini Ashokkumar
Sponsoring Institution: We-Search Lab at Harvard University
Fields of Research: Psychology; politics; natural language models
Deadline: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Visa: Harvard University is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Senior Fellow and Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy (“Brown Center”)
Sponsoring Institution(s): Brookings
Fields of Research: PK-12 and higher education policy topics
Deadline: Rolling
Please Note: Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Shapiro (UC Berkeley)
Sponsoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Fields of Research: Energy/Environmental, Public Finance, Trade, and Health economics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): F. Daniel Hidalgo, In Song Kim, Rich Nielsen, Naoki Egami
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Department of Political Science
Fields of Research: Political Economy, Causal Inference, Quantitative Methods
Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sally Sadoff
Sponsoring Institution: UC San Diego Rady School of Management
Fields of Research: Education, behavioral economics, experimental economics
Deadline: April 15
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Rebekah Dix, Judith Fan, Vasiliki Fouka, Michael Frank, Tishara Garg, Tobias Gerstenberg, Ian Gotlib, Kalanit Grill-Spector, David Grusky, Jeffrey Hancock, Rob Reich, Douglas Rivers, Yiqing Xu
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford University – Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
Fields of Research: Communication, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology
Application Review Dates: April 10, May 1
Special Note: This position is exempt from the hiring pause.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Clem Aeppli
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Sociology of work and organizations
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ulrike Malmendier
Sponsoring Institution: O'Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics - Haas School of Business
Fields of Research: Behavioral economics and finance, intersecting with topics in applied microeconomics, macro-finance, labor, and health.
Next review date: Wednesday, Apr 8, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Friday, Jul 31, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Visa: While the position does not sponsor new consular H-1B visas, it does include sponsorship for STEM OPT and J-1 visas.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): John Giardina, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Emily Hyle
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Fields of Research: Health, Public Policy, Statistics and Econometrics, Health Decision Science, Disease Simulation Modeling
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Charles Angelucci, Mert Demirer, Namrata Kala, Alexey Makarin, Benjamin Vatter, Catherine Wolfram
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Applied economics
Research projects will be in the fields of health economics, public economics, energy & environmental economics, political economy, and industrial organization, with empirical tools including natural experiments, randomized trials, and structural estimation.
Deadline: We will be accepting and reviewing applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Larry Schmidt, Taha Choukhmane
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Asset pricing, household and consumer finance, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, and micro-econometrics
Deadline: Applications will be open till the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jackson Lu
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of research: Quantitative Social Science, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, Management
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Antoinette Schoar
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Fintech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, financial intermediation, and consumer finance
Deadline: March 1st, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr. Jennifer Sumner, PhD
Sponsoring Institution: UCLA
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science, Health
Deadline: Rolling review, Application deadline 5/2/26
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Director, Dr. Sarah Gaither in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Sponsoring Institution: Duke Identity and Diversity Lab
Fields of Research: Social Psychology (social identities, perceptions, and behavior, with both adult and child populations)
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting March 31st (priority deadline), until filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jan Eeckhout
Sponsoring Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Fields of Research: Macroeconomics and Labour Economics
Deadline: 20th April 2026
Visa: Visas for international candidates outside of the EU will be supported.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Gemma Dipoppa
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia University
Fields of Research: Applied political economy at the intersection of politics and economics, on topics of state surveillance and political violence.
Deadline: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
Location: Remote option
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ruru Hoong, Anya Shchetkina, and Jimin Nam
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Marketing, economics, operations, management
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Fatih Guvenen (Toronto), Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford), Gianluca Violante (Princeton)
Sponsoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University
Fields of Research: Income Inequality, Public Policy, Economic Mobility
Deadline: April 1st, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Samuel Bazzi, Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein
Sponsoring Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research
Fields of Research: Political Economy, Development, Economic History
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Erica Jiang and Terrence Tianshuo Shi
Sponsoring Institution: UCLA Anderson School of Management
Fields of Research: Finance, Accounting
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Marshall Burke
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford University
Field(s) of Research: Economics, environment, climate, health, policy
Deadline: First Review Date 3/19/25
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ruru Hoong, Anya Shchetkina, and Jimin Nam
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Marketing, Economics, Management, Operations
Deadline: Rolling (reviews began early March 2026)
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matthew Pecenco
Sponsoring Institution: Brown University
Fields of Research: Labor, Crime, Housing
Deadline: Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
NBER Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Matt Backus (UC Berkeley), Ashley Swanson (UW Madison), and Andrew Olenski (Lehigh- non-NBER)
Sponsoring Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Research: Applied microeconomics focusing on health care, industrial organization, productivity, and organizational economics
Deadline/First Review Date: Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Allison P. Harris
Sponsoring Institution: The Center for the Study of American Politics (CSAP) Pre-Doctoral Fellows Program, Yale University
Fields of Research: Quantitative political science
Project Scope: Projects focused on identifying polarization among criminal legal officials, examining the relationship between polarization and disparities in criminal legal outcomes, and identifying potential mitigation mechanisms.
Deadline: Rolling
Project Title: Addressing the Infrastructure Crisis: Why It Takes So Long and Costs So Much to Build in the US
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Zach Liscow
Sponsoring Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale University
Fields of Research: Public economics, urban economics, labor economics, environmental economics, law and economics, and political economy
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Prof. Henry Zhang, with secondary supervision involving Prof. Victor Orestes at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and others
Sponsoring Institution: Department of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fields of Research: Finance (environmental, development, macro)
Deadline: Rolling
Note: Applicants do not need to currently have work authorization in Hong Kong to be considered.
Sponsoring Researchers: Faculty members in the Economics area
Sponsoring Institution: London Business School
Fields of Research: The role involves close collaboration on new and ongoing research projects. Research areas may include, but are not limited to:
Deadline: Mar 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant, Economics
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Erin Kelley, Greg Lane, and Fiona Burlig
Sponsoring Institution(s): Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago
Fields of Research: Climate change; development economics; agricultural labor and markets
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Expected Start Date: July 1, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Schönholzer and Paulina Oliva
Sponsoring Institution: University of Southern California
Fields of Research: Environmental Economics, Development, Public Economics, and Political Economy
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Sponsoring Researchers: Hans-Joachim Voth
Sponsoring Institution: University of Zurich
Fields of Research: Political Economy, Economic History, Cultural Economics
Deadline: Rolling admissions
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Research Division
Sponsoring Institution: Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute (Institute), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fields of Research: Economics opportunity, labor market outcomes
Deadline: Rolling
Expected start date will be Spring/Summer 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Anaïs Galdin and Felipe Barbieri
Sponsoring Institution: The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Fields of Research: International Trade, Industrial Organization, Urban/Spatial Economics
Deadline: Review of applications will begin in February 2026 and will continue until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Emma Templeton
Sponsoring Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science
Deadline: March 1st, rolling review
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Thomas Graeber
Sponsoring Institution: University of Zurich
Fields of Research: Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Deadline: Feb 28
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Andrew Baker, Abhay Aneja, Jonah Gelbach, Adam Badawi, Prasad Krishnamurthy, Veronica Santarosa, Manisha Padi, Emily Zhang, Ofer Eldar
Sponsoring Institution: UC Berkeley School of Law
Fields of Research: Accounting, Economic History, Statistics and Econometrics, Finance
Deadline: Mar 1, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Kellogg Behavioral Lab
Sponsoring Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science, Marketing, Organizational Behavior
Deadline: Applications reviewed continuously until all positions are filled. Cover letters should include academic career goals and Kellogg faculty of interest.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Dmitry Taubinsky of UC Berkeley, Benjamin Lockwood of University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and Luigi Butera of Copenhagen Business School
Sponsoring Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Research: Behavioral Economics, Public Economics
Deadline: We will review applications on a rolling basis starting February 25, with the intention of making a final hiring decision by April 25.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lori Beaman, Andrew Dillon, Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry
Sponsoring Institution: Global Poverty Research Lab, Northwestern University
Fields of Research: Development, Statistics and Econometrics, Data Science and Tech Innovation, Meta-analysis
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lars Vilhuber and Eleanor Wilking
Sponsoring Institution: Cornell University ILR School and Law School
Fields of Research: Data Science and Tech Innovation; Public Economics; Public Policy; Labor; Econometrics and Statistics
Deadline: Rolling until filled.
Sponsoring Institution: Economic Studies Program,The Brookings Institution
Fields of Research: Research topics cover a full range of public policy issues in economics, foreign policy, development, governance and metropolitan policy.
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Job ID: 2026-3795
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Pinar Yildirim, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, and Juan Camilo Castillo, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsoring Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Applied microeconomics, focusing on projects on the digital economy, transportation and urban economics, and industrial organization.
Deadline: If interested, please submit a cover letter describing your interest in the job and specific research projects with faculty, CV, copies of your transcripts, and up to 3 letters of recommendation by March 15, 2026.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr. Kurt Gray
Sponsoring Institution: The Ohio State University
Fields of Research: Social Psychology; studying morality, political polarization, mind perception, religion, and artificial intelligence
Deadline: Review begins 3/1/2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Neale Mahoney
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Fields of Research: Economic Policy; Applied Microeconomics (Education, Housing, Health, Early Childhood, Energy) entails continued engagement with federal and state policymakers; and Consumer Finance.
Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. For full consideration, please submit your complete application by February 8, 2026 (this Sunday).
Note: Applicants will need to rank Neale Mahoney as their preferred professor on the application link.
Visa Policy: Does Sponsor
Sponsoring Researcher(s): All professors at the Department of Economics, University of Zurich currently searching for pre-docs
Sponsoring Institution: Department of Economics, University of Zurich
Fields of Research: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Technological Change & Innovation, Neuroeconomics, Behavioral Economics, International Trade, Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Economic Theory, Organizational Economics, Political Economy, Econometrics, Economic History, Financial Markets, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Education & Health, Economics of Institutions
Deadline: May 15th, 2026 (with deadline for recommendation letters or May 25th, 2026).
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Andrew J. Scott
Sponsoring Institution: EIT Oxford
Fields of Research: AI and Robotics, Labour economics, Macroeconomics, Applied microeconomics, Public policy, Economics of ageing/demographics
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until April 30
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Emilie Feldman and Paul Nary
Sponsoring Institution: Management Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Management, Corporate Strategy, M&A, Finance
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Claudia Steinwender and Gabor Bekes
Sponsoring Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Fields of Research: Economics, Economic History, Applied Economics, Data Science and Tech Innovation
Deadline: Feb 23, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Stefano Giglio and Johannes Stroebel
Sponsoring Institution: Yale SOM and NYU Stern
Fields of Research: Finance
Start Date: June 1, 2026
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jonathan Colmer and Jay Shimshack
Sponsoring Institution: University of Virginia
Fields of Research: Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Yanagizawa-Drott
Sponsoring Institution: University of Zurich
Fields of Research: Development, Data Science and Tech Innovation, Machine Learning, Political Economy, Public Policy
Deadline: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with first full review end of February.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): ETH Zurich (Elliott Ash); Yale (W. Bentley MacLeod); and Columbia University (Suresh Naidu)
Sponsoring Institution: ETH Zurich (with Columbia and Yale)
Fields of Research: Applied Economics and AI
Deadline: March 1st, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Bartels, Shereen Chaudhry, Kristin Donnelly, Erika Kirgios, Abigail Sussman, and Oleg Urminsky
Sponsoring Institution: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science and Marketing
Deadline: February 2nd, rolling review
Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Dorn
Sponsoring Institution: Department of Economics, University of Zurich
Fields of Research: Labor Economics, Microeconomics
Deadline: February 1st 2026 for applications, February 5th 2026 for letters of recommendation.
Start Date: Summer/Fall 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Weber, PhD
Sponsoring Institution: ESMT Berlin (Germany)
Fields of Research: Macroeconomics and Finance
Deadline: The application deadline is March 31, 2026.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Multiple faculty within Wharton Finance and Accounting Departments
Sponsoring Institution: Wharton Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research
Fields of Research: Finance, Accounting
Deadline/First Review Date: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Emil Verner and David Thesmar
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Financial Economics and Macroeconomics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nathaniel Hendren
Sponsoring Institution: Policy Impacts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of Research: Economics, workforce/labor, macroeconomics
Deadline: Apply by February 8, 2026 to meet the priority deadline.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Kate Orkin (University of Oxford), Matthew Ridley (University of Warwick), Alison Andrew (University of Oxford), Nate Barker (Northwestern University), Rob Garlick (Duke University), Lukas Hensel (Peking University), Ulrike Malmendier (UC Berkeley)
Sponsoring Institution: University of Oxford
Field of Research: Development, Labor, Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Science
Deadline: 30/01/2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lingxuan Sean Wu and Peter Koudijs
Sponsoring Institution: Finance Department, NYU Stern School of Business
Fields of Research: Banking, behavioral finance, macro-finance, and financial history
Deadline: Deadline is Jan 15, 2026; afterwards, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Raj Chetty (Harvard), John Friedman (Harvard/Brown), and Nathan Hendren (Harvard/MIT)
Sponsoring Institution: Opportunity Insights
Fields of Research: Economics, Public Economics, Public Policy, Big Data, Statistics, Economic Mobility, Labor Markets, Econometrics, Education, Social Capital
Deadline: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Anjali Adukia
Sponsoring Institution: University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy
Fields of Research: Education; Public Policy; Economics
Deadline: Rolling review
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr. Kelsie Forbush & Dr. Angeline Bottera
Sponsoring Institution: KU CARE
Fields of Research: Psychology - Eating Disorders
Deadline: Applications reviewed continuously until the position is filled.
ponsoring Institution: GovAI
Fields of Research: AI Governance
Deadline: Sunday 4 January 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Matteo Tranchero and Manav Raj
Sponsoring Institution: The Mack Institute for Innovation Management at Wharton
Fields of Research: Economics, Microeconomics, Data Science and Tech Innovation, Statistics and Econometrics
Deadline: Reviewed on a rolling basis.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nicole Maestas
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Medical School
Fields of Research: Health, Labor, Economics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Robert Bartlett, the W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and Professor Finance (by courtesy)
Sponsoring Institution: Stanford Law School
Fields of Research: Law and finance, capital markets, corporate governance, corporate disclosure, venture capital finance
Deadline: Monday, February 2, 2026
Start Date: Summer 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Sheena Iyengar
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science, Organizational Behavior, Social Psychology, Economics
Deadline: Rolling, apply ASAP
Start Date: February 1st
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Prof. Lorenzo Casaburi
Sponsoring Institution: University of Zurich – Department of Economics
Fields of Research: Development Economics
Deadline: 31.01.2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Michael Baker, Kyle Greenberg, Aaron Phipps, Geoffrey Schnorr, Anna Weber
Sponsoring Institution: West Point (Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis)
Fields of Research: Economics, Econometrics and Statistics
Deadline: Rolling. We will begin reviewing candidates starting January 16, 2026
Sponsoring Institution: Amazon Economics
Fields of Research: Advanced economic research
Deadline: Rolling
Location: Seattle, WA
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr. Danial Lashkari
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of research: Economics of Technological Progress, Innovation, AI
Deadline: Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
Sponsoring Researchers: Professors Alan Moreira and Indira Puri
Sponsoring Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field of research: Finance
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sinja Leonelli, Irina Luneva, Gurpal Sran, Kyle (Jaehoon) Jung, and Aleksander Aleszczyk
Sponsoring Institution: New York University Stern School of Business
Field of Research: Accounting
Deadline: Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis, and all candidates applying by December 31, 2025 will receive full consideration.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School) and Kristen Harknett (University of California, Berkeley)
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard University
Fields of Research: Sociology, Public Policy, Economics
Deadline: 1/15/26
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Cailin Slattery and Carolyn Stein
Sponsoring Institution: UC Berkeley
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics
Deadline: We will review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Valentin Haddad and Tyler Muir
Sponsoring Institution: UCLA Anderson School of Management
Fields of Research: Finance; macroeconomics; financial institutions
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Stefanie Deluca and Nick Papageorge
Sponsoring Institution: Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University
Fields of Research: Sociology and Economics
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Tong Liu, Lira Mota, Christopher Palmer, Kerry Siani, and Juan Antolin-Diaz
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Fields of Research: Capital markets, corporate finance, macro-finance, household finance, and micro-econometrics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Evan Mast, Rob Collinson
Sponsoring Institution: University of Notre Dame
Fields of Research: Microeconomics, Public Policy, Statistics/Econometrics
Deadline: Sunday, 12/14/25
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Sponsoring Institution: The Global Linkages Lab at Brown University’s Department of Economics
Fields of Research: International economics; globalization;sustainable growth; global economic policy
Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Visa: For this position, Brown offers only the J-1 visa classification to scholars who need immigration sponsorship in order to enter the U.S. and commence lawful employment under the terms of their appointment.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Amanda Kowalski and Dave Chan
Sponsoring Institution: University of Michigan
Fields of Research: Health, Statistics and Econometrics
Deadline/First Review Date: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Jacob Mortenson
Sponsoring Institution: Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress
Field(s) of Research: Economics
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Visa: Eligible candidates must meet citizenship requirements for employment in the Federal government (generally, be U.S. citizens or have legal residency that permits timely completion of the citizenship process).
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Erica Field and co-PIs
Sponsoring Institution: DevLab@Duke, Department of Economics, Duke University
Project Focus: Applied experimental micro-economic development research directed at informing public policy in low- and middle-income countries.
Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; please apply as soon as possible for full consideration.
Reference #: #31062
Visa: Duke can provide visa sponsorship, and there will be possibility for international fieldwork.
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Jung Koo Kang and Shirley Lu
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Business School
Fields of Research: Accounting, emerging technologies, climate change, alternative and big data, corporate social responsibility, and corporate finance.
Deadline: Rolling
Visa: Candidates must have valid U.S. work authorization for the duration of the appointment (such as OPT).
Start Date: Summer 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nina Roussille and Anna Stansbury
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics
Fields of Research: Labor economics, markets, government/union regulation
Deadline: We will review all applications and interview candidates on a rolling basis.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Treb Allen
Sponsoring Institution: The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth College
Field(s) of Research: Macroeconomics, Development, Public Policy, Political Economy
Deadline: Review of applications will begin December 1, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nour Kteily, Tessa Charlesworth
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Field(s) of Research: Organizational behavior, computational social sciences
Deadline: December 18, 2025
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Juan Antolin-Diaz
Sponsoring Institution: MIT Sloan School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Finance, economics, computer science
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Christopher Snyder, Michael Kremer
Sponsoring Institution: University of Chicago, Market Shaping Accelerator
Fields of Research: Microeconomics, economics of innovation, industrial organization, public policy, health economics, climate, market shaping
Deadline: First review, Oct 6.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Ashesh Rambachan
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of Research: Machine learning; econometrics and statistics; artificial intelligence
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields of Research: Economics, labor markets, artificial intellligence
Deadline: Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor David Atkin or Professor Dave Donaldson
Sponsoring Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field(s) of Research: Industrial policy, international trade and development economics
Application Deadline: Rolling
Start Date: July 1, 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Lakshmi Iyer, Taryn Dinkelman, Enrique Seira, Joseph Kaboski, Santosh Gautam, Alejandro Estefan
Sponsoring Institution(s): The Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab, University of Notre Dame
Fields of Research: Development
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dashun Wang
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of Research: Science of science, innovation, network science, computational social sciences
Deadline: December 18
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Yuval Salant, Jörg Spenkuch
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of Research: Applied microeconomics, political economy, bounded rationality
Deadline: December 18
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Sugata Roychowdhury
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of Research: Accounting, financial accounting managerial economics
Deadline: December 18
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ilya Morozov
Sponsoring Institution: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Field(s) of Research: Quantitative marketing, I/O economics, behavioral experiments
Application Deadline: December 18
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Garima Sharma
Sponsoring Institution: Northwestern University
Fields of Research: Economics
Project Scope: Research studying labor markets, market power, and social protection in developing countries
Deadline: We will review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Sponsoring Institution: The Federal Reserve
Field(s) of Research: Economics, statistics, finance, data science, public policy, or related fields
Deadline: January 31
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Gyourko, Todd Sinai, Fernando Ferreira, Maisy Wong, Ben Keys, Nina Harari, Sophie Calder-Wang, Jessie Handbury, Gilles Duranton
Sponsoring Institution: Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Real estate, public policy, and urban economics.
Deadline: Rolling
Reference number: JR00112439
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Vesall Nourani
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Fields of Research: Economics, Education, Development
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Dr Rui Costa, Dr Nikhil Datta and Dr Matteo Sandi
Sponsoring Institution: Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics
Fields of Research: Education and criminal justice systems in England
Project: Diversion and Structural Change in the Youth Criminal Justice System
Deadline: 30/11/2025
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professor Matthew Rabin
Sponsoring Institution: Department of Economics and Business School, Harvard University
Fields of Research: Psychologically-grounded economic theory
Deadline/First review date: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Anna Tuchman, Caio Waisman
Sponsoring Institution: Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Field(s) of Research: Quantitative Marketing, I/O Economics, Labor Economics
Deadline: December 18, 2025
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Ishan Nath, Anna Russo, Wolfram Schlenker, Charles Taylor
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard University Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
Fields of Research: Environmental, agricultural, development, international trade, industrial organization
Deadline: We will review applications on a rolling basis, starting November 17th.
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Julia Minson
Sponsoring Institution: Harvard Kennedy School
Field(s) of Research: Behavioral Science
Deadline: Rolling review
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Daniel Greenwald and Adam Solomon
Sponsoring Institution: New York University, Stern School of Business, Finance Department
Fields of Research: Finance, Public Economics, Environmental
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Arpit Gupta and Alex Bartik
Sponsoring Institution: NYU Stern School of Business
Fields of Research: Real Estate, Artificial Intelligence
Deadline/First Review Date: Nov 1 2025
Sponsoring Researcher(s): David Matsa, Jacopo Ponticelli, Filippo Mezzanotti, Carola Frydman, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Dean Karlan, etc.
Sponsoring Institution: Finance Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Fields of Research: Finance
Deadline: We will review applications on a rolling basis, with a target initial review on October 31, 2025.
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Sponsoring Researcher(s): Accounting Division
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia Business School
Fields of Research: Accounting
Start Date: July 1, 2026
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Sebastian Otero and Pietro Tebaldi
Sponsoring Institution: Department of Economics, Columbia University
Fields of Research: Empirical industrial organization, health economics, and economics of education
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Nicole Immorlica, Eleonora Dillon, Sonia Jaffe, Markus Mobius, Brendan Lucier, Alex Slivkins, David Rothschild, Jake Hofman, Dan Goldstein
Sponsoring Institution: Microsoft Research New England and New York City
Fields of Research: Economics, economics, information systems, computational social science, computer science
Deadline: October 27, 5pm
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Professors Sebastian Otero and Pietro Tebaldi
Sponsoring Institution: Columbia University, Program for Economics Research
Fields of Research: Labor, Education, Health, Industrial Organization
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Katy Milkman and Angela Duckworth
Sponsoring Institution: Behavior Change for Good Initiative at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Fields of Research: Behavioral Science
Deadline: Rolling
Expected Start Date: June 2026
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Joseph Altonji, David Argente, John Barrios, Lauren Bergquist, Leah Boustan, Cody Cook, Zack Cooper, John Geanakoplos, Stefano Giglio, Kenneth Gillingham, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, John Eric Humphries, Maria Kogelnik, Mushfiq Mobarak, Chima Ndumele, Christopher Neilson, Cormac O'Dea, Rohini Pande, Michael Peters, Aneesh Raghunandan, Nicholas Ryan, Natasha Sarin, Kelly Shue, Thomas Steffen, Winnie van Dijk, Diana Van Patten, Jacob Wallace, Edward Watts, Kai Hao Yang, Fabrizio Zilibotti, and Seth Zimmerman
Sponsoring Institution: Tobin Center for Economic Policy and Department of Economics at Yale University
Fields of Research: Accounting, Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Economic Theory, Economics of Education, Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics, Finance, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Law and Economics, Macroeconomics, Market Design, Political Economy, Public Economics, Urban Economics
Deadline: Rolling
Sponsoring Researcher(s): Profs. Gustavo Bobonis, Raissa Fabregas, Orlando Sotomayor, Román Andrés Zárate, and Philip Oreopoulos
Sponsoring Institution: Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Fields of Research: Applied Microeconomics, Education
Deadline/First review date: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis until filled. Early applications encouraged.
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