Senior Research Fellow - Occupational Licensing & Labor Mobility

3 hours, 29 minutes ago
Contract
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
AlphaHire

AlphaHire

AlphaHire specializes in utilizing advanced AI technology to streamline the recruitment process by analyzing extensive data points to efficiently match candidates with job requirements, thereby enhancing the overall hiring experience.

Professional Services

Description

  • Refine research questions, causal estimands, and study designs.
  • Evaluate treatment and comparison-group construction.
  • Conduct Difference-in-Differences, staggered DiD, event-study, or related quasi-experimental analyses.
  • Analyze CPS, ACS/PUMS, OEWS, QWI/LEHD, Census, BLS, and related labor-market datasets.
  • Develop occupation and licensing-policy crosswalks.
  • Evaluate effects on interstate mobility, employment, wages, and labor-force outcomes.
  • Review methodology and assess threats to identification.
  • Contribute to grant proposals, pre-analysis plans, manuscripts, research reports, and policy publications.
  • Conduct or supervise empirical analysis for funded projects.
  • Collaborate on future research, grant, publication, and sponsored-project opportunities.

Requirements

  • Ph.D. or advanced doctoral training in economics, public policy, sociology, statistics, political science, or a related quantitative field.
  • Demonstrated applied research experience.
  • Experience with large longitudinal, administrative, or survey datasets.
  • Proficiency in R, Stata, Python, SQL, or comparable research tools.
  • Strong understanding of causal identification and policy evaluation.
  • Experience with occupational licensing, reciprocity, universal recognition, labor mobility, migration, labor supply, occupational regulation, or state policy evaluation.
  • Knowledge of Difference-in-Differences, staggered treatment designs, event studies, synthetic control, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, panel-data methods, or causal inference.
  • Experience with licensing records, professional credentialing data, or occupational crosswalks.
  • Strong written communication and methodological judgment.
  • Academic affiliation is welcome but not required; research quality and demonstrated execution ability are prioritized over institutional prestige.

Benefits

  • Project-based research opportunity with potential roles including Senior Research Fellow, Methods Lead, Co-Investigator, Principal Investigator, Applied Labor Economist, or Research Consultant.
  • Opportunity to contribute to grant-funded research, publications, and sponsored projects.
  • Potential for larger research engagements contingent on external grant or sponsored-project funding.
  • Initial participation may include research design, methodology, literature review, or proposal development.
  • Compensation, scope, institutional involvement, and formal appointments are established separately for funded roles.
  • Access to future WIL research and researcher-network opportunities aligned with expertise.

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