Research Assistant in Macroeconomics and Public Finance

vor 1 Woche


St Gallen, Schweiz University of St.Gallen Vollzeit

Your tasks You will contribute to our ongoing research projects in macro public finance, covering topics on inequality, taxation, student financing policies, human capital accumulation, and young household savings patterns. Your tasks will include working with extensive survey and administrative data producing key statistics and performing econometric analysis research on institutional settings in Switzerland  literature research  Your profile We are looking for a highly motivated bachelor or master student in economics who has at least some basic knowledge of R, Python or Stata applies critical thinking to data and has interest in economic theory is intrinsically motivated to solve complex problems feels comfortable to work in a small team and has a very good foundation in statistics or econometrics Previous project experience processing datasets (cleaning, merging and generating basic statistics) and knowledge of German language would be an advantage. To start the application process, please submit a CV, grade transcript and, short motivational statement. If you have a piece of written, analytical or coding work that you are particularly proud of, then please send that along too. We will review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Applicants are encouraged to contact Professor Sachs or Lea Fricke.



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