Taking Applications for a Full-Time Research Assistantship with the Well-Being Measurement Initiative—Miles Kimball, Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz and Kristen Cooper
My top 4 projects in the world are to add deep negative interest rates to the monetary policy toolkit, to fight the rise of obesity and the associated chronic diseases, to enhance the scientific creativity, engagement and impact economists have, and to develop principles that put national well-being indexes on an equal footing with GDP. (On the last, see my “happiness” subblog.) Every one of these projects needs a team to help make their goal into a reality. This post is advertising an opportunity to be part of our team working out all the principles necessary to put national well-being indexes on an equal footing with GDP. The 4 professors are that team are Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Kristen Cooper and I.
I personally work very closely with our full-time research assistants. I consider many of those who have been our research assistants to be very close friends. We are looking for our next full-time research assistant for a two-year stint to begin Summer 2021, ending Summer 2023. We have two full-time research assistants overall, hiring one each year, and several part-time research assistants as well as additional coauthors on some papers we are working on. So you wouldn’t be lonely working with us!
Our research assistants working on well-being also typically hang out with other research assistants who are working on social science genetics papers with Dan Benjamin and me, and a large cast of other very interesting characters.
I have included below images of the ads for both (1) the well-being RA position and for (2) the social science genetics RA positions, and links to the ads in their original location online.
We look forward to hearing from you!
