Successful candidates will report to Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. The job will entail close collaboration on a number of new and ongoing projects in development economics, environmental economics, and political economy. Most of these projects will be on China, and will use large administrative datasets. Job responsibilities span all stages of research, including managing projects, collecting and analyzing data, creating presentations, and editing manuscripts. The predoc will work closely with Shaoda Wang and his collaborators from various other institutions, including Harvard, HKU, Northwestern, Berkeley, Princeton, and Duke.
Additional Responsibilities
- Collects and cleans data.
- Analyzes data, using reduced form and structural methods.
- Prepares literature reviews.
- Prepares tables and figures for papers and presentations.
- Writes, proofreads, and fact checks papers, reports, and presentations.
- Other duties as assigned
Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the deputy faculty director of the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago, China center (EPIC-China). His research interests span the fields of development economics, environmental economics, and political economy. His main research agenda aims at understanding the political economy of public policy, with a regional focus on China. He hold a BA from Peking University, and a PhD from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Harris, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).