Data Research Associate - Dartmouth College

Core responsibilities:

• Performing high-quality OCR and manual data entry from historical PDF sources into structured databases or spreadsheets
• Merging newly digitized data with contextual sources and performing statistical analysis on the resulting data set
• Building reproducible data and analysis pipelines, documentation, and metadata to support public data release
• Coordinating and providing guidance to undergraduate research assistants working on the projects

This role contributes to economic research focused on gender, labor economics, and development economics, supporting evidence-based policy work that can inform poverty alleviation and economic development initiatives.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics or a related field, completed by the start of the appointment
• Previous programming experience in languages such as R, Matlab, Python, or Stata
• Demonstrated interest and enthusiasm in applying programming experience to economic research and economic policy work
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving abilities

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary: $60,000 per year plus fringe and benefits
• Eligibility for Graduate Special Student status with ability to take certain Dartmouth courses (tuition paid by Dartmouth, maximum 1 course per academic year)
• Possibility of 1-year extension upon satisfactory performance
• J-1 visa sponsorship for eligible candidates

The Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a research center focused on reducing poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence through randomized evaluations.