Resources

A Selection of Resources to Find Research Assistant (RA)/Predoctoral Positions

The list below is intended to be a collection of links to pages that advertise research assistant (RA)/predoctoral positions. A comprehensive taxonomy of such positions and corresponding tasks can be found in the RA Guide.

The list is compiled with the aim of reducing search costs and informational frictions, in the hope that it will benefit those students that would like to acquire research experience.

The focus of the list lies primarily on pages that aggregate several positions, whereas individual openings are deliberately omitted in the interest of generality.

Needless to say, the list is inevitably far from exhaustive and should merely serve the purpose of kickstarting the search.


Disclaimer: The list is not sponsored. The list is compiled with no intention to provide more visibility to specific opportunities over others. Items in the list appear in no particular order.

RA Positions at Academic Institutions

• Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC).
• Econ RA Listings
• Research Assistant Positions – at the NBER
• Research Assistant Positions – not at the NBER
• EconJobMarket
• The PhD Project
• Research Assistant Positions - Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
• The Michigan Ross Bridges to Doctoral Fellows Program
• Bridge To the Ph.D. Program
• SIEPR Predoctoral Research Fellows Program
• IES Predoctoral Research Assistant Positions
• BFI Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP)
• The Duke Pre-Graduate Fellows Program
• Predoctoral Positions at the Global Capital Allocation Project

RA positions in Macroeconomics at Policy Institutions

• Research Assistant Positions – International Monetary Fund (see also RAP)
• Programs and Internships – World Bank
• Programs and Internships – OECD
• Research Assistant Positions - Bank of International Settlements
• Internships and Research Analyst Positions - European Central Bank
• Federal Reserve System
1. Research Assistant Positions – Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2. Research Assistant Positions – Boston Fed
3. Research Assistant Positions – New York Fed
4. Research Assistant Positions – Philadelphia Fed
5. Research Assistant Positions – Cleveland Fed
6. Research Assistant Positions – Richmond Fed
7. Careers – Atlanta Fed (general Fed System Career listings)
8. Research Assistant Positions – St. Louis Fed
9. Careers – Minneapolis Fed (general Fed System Career listings)
10. Research Assistant Positions – Kansas City Fed
11. Research Assistant Positions – Dallas Fed
12. Research Assistant Positions – San Francisco Fed

Last Updated: October 3, 2021.

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