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 on gender, labor economics, and development economics, supporting data-driven policy work that can inform poverty alleviation and economic development initiatives.

Required 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
• Demonstrated ability to work well independently with attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills

Salary: $60,000 per year, plus fringe and benefits. Eligible for Graduate Special Student status with ability to take certain Dartmouth courses with tuition paid by Dartmouth (maximum 1 course per academic year).