The research assistants will support the research initiatives under the guidance of research faculty. Areas of inquiry including: Examples: political economy, immigration and labour markets, international trade, healthcare, urban development.

The project may include, but is not limited to:

• Overseeing complex data collection, manipulation, and data storage.
• Planning and performing the outlines and looking after data retrieval (eg, data scraping) and analysis (eg, big data analysis) using existing tools and methods.
• Responsible for complex tasks in relation to data retrieval and analysis.
• Working with senior level in the design and execution of empirical tests. Supports the project/study by surveying literature and using existing tools to generate data.
• Conducting literature reviews and contributing to the development of research projects.

Students will work closely with the primary project manager who is supervising and available for questions.