EPIC Fellowships offer the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the research process through positions with EPIC faculty mentors or to gather “real-world” insights through external summer internships.
While research will be the focus of the fellowship, students may also gain experience with grant and proposal writing, communications, and program coordination on an as-needed basis within the Institute. Fellows are invited to participate in seminars and weekly workshops and to attend EPIC-sponsored conferences and events for which they may be asked to draft summary reports.
About the Fellowship:
The fellow will work on projects related to:
(1) Green building practices in the United States. We have conducted a large-scale survey of residential home builders to understand what compels or dissuades builders from making new homes solar-ready and/or installing solar panels at the time of construction. We are now in the survey analysis stage.
(2) Consumer decision making around energy efficient water heaters which are currently subsidized through the Inflation Reduction Act. We are planning several behavioral science experiments to understand how individuals make tradeoffs between purchase prices, incentives, and energy savings over time.
Outputs:
- Assist with analyzing survey data including descriptive analyses, hypothesis testing, and data visualization
- For the consumer decision making project, the fellow will help program our online survey experiments in Qualtrics (this can largely be learned on the job)
Qualifications:
- Required:
- Attention to detail and patience for clear documentation;
- High proficiency in Stata
- Highly Desirable:
For data analysis- Prior experience/training on survey design and analyzing survey data
- Understanding of “Tidy” coding best-practices
- Familiarity with GitHub
- For behavioral science experiments
- Prior experience programming Qualtrics surveys
- Prior experience running experiments on MTurk, Prolific and other platforms
- Knowledge of HTML/Javascript/CSS would also be helpful, but are not required for this position