Urban Institute is hiring a Research Assistant – Quantitative (Health, Income, and Benefits Policy Division).
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate on projects that include a variety of research and analytic assignments related to health care coverage and costs, health care financing and delivery reform, and the effects of policies on health care access and quality.
• Work primarily on quantitative research tasks, such as collecting, organizing, and analyzing data; creating and interpreting tables, graphs, and other analysis output; and assisting with the implementation of regression models and other quantitative research methods.
• Use Stata, SAS, and/or R to clean, merge/restructure, and manage large and complex datasets, create and manage files for analysis, and conduct statistical analyses.
• Summarize findings and present information effectively in multiple formats, such as tables/charts, written memos, and/or slide presentations.
Education/Experience:
• Possess a bachelor's degree in economics, public policy, public health, mathematics, statistics, data science, or related fields and at least one year of academic or work experience in quantitative research and/or data analysis.
• Have experience with data analysis software packages such as Stata, R, or SAS.
• Have experience merging, cleaning, or restructuring datasets, creating tables or charts, and conducting statistical analysis. Experience with administrative, survey, or other complex data is a plus.
• Demonstrate strong mathematical and statistical skills, preferably with knowledge of basic econometric methods.
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