Junior Specialist / Assistant Specialist - Economics - Department of Economics
The University of California, Berkeley
About this position
Position Overview
Salary range: The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See the following table for the current salary scale(s) for this position: Represented Specialist Salary Scales The current full time base salary for this position is $57,000 - $65,800. "Off-scale" salaries, which yield compensation that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions. Percent time: 100% Anticipated start: Summer 2027 Position duration: The initial appointment is for one year, with the possibility of renewal based on performance and funding availability.
Application Deadline
Open date: October 10, 2026 Next review date:Sunday, Oct 25, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Tuesday, Nov 10, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position Description
The Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks a Junior / Assistant Specialist to work with Professor Nicolas Longuet-Marx in the conduct of several of his research projects in political economy, focusing on municipal bond referendums, the innovation and diffusion of policies across states over time, the drivers of political realignment, and the interaction between labor market factors and political behavior. Tasks will include data collection, data cleaning and processing, and data analysis. Duties will include: Collecting recent and historical data on American political economy, such as precinct results, candidate websites, municipal finance data, and campaign contributions. The data will be collected from various sources, such as Secretaries of State, county election officials, the Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Library of Congress. Processing the above-described datasets, together with other datasets already collected by the Principal Investigators. The processing will include geospatial analysis to recover precinct demographics and map changes in precincts over time, as well as simple natural language processing to analyze candidate websites and the automatic digitization of old electoral maps. Analyzing the different datasets to produce descriptive statistics and data visualizations, conduct econometric analyses, and estimate structural models of political behavior and political competition.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications(required at time of application)Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) or enrolled in a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) program Additional qualifications(required at time of start)Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree) Preferred qualificationsExperience with data collection, data processing Experience with data analysis in Stata, Python or, R.
Application Requirements
Document requirementsCurriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. Cover Letter Reference requirements 2 required (contact information only) Apply link:https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05595 Help contact:hsangera1@berkeley.edu