**Job Description**

**The Research Analyst will support an empirical research program on the public returns to higher education.**

**Please submit the following application materials for full consideration.**

Required:

· A cover letter

· A current résumé/curriculum vitae

· College transcripts (unofficial) combined in a single document

· Contact information for 3 recommenders

Optional:

· Writing sample(s) of any length

The Research Analyst will help build and manage linked, individual-level administrative datasets on postsecondary enrollment, degree completion, and subsequent labor-market outcomes, integrating them with supplementary survey and labor-market data sources. They will implement quasi-experimental research designs — including regression-discontinuity designs at admissions thresholds and instrumental-variables strategies exploiting geographic variation in college access — to estimate the...