Organisation/Company: Ecole Polytechnique
Department: CREST
Research Field: Economics » Econometrics
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Positions: Master Positions
Country: France
Application Deadline: 31 May 2025 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Type of Contract: Temporary
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 38
Offer Starting Date: 1 Sep 2025
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe - ERC
Reference Number: 101169799
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Professor Yves Le Yaouanq, Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant PROSPECT (Biases in prospective learning and dynamic choice), hosted at Ecole Polytechnique, is seeking an assistant researcher starting September 1, 2025 for a duration of one year. The profile is an early-career researcher who just obtained a master degree in economics and is willing to spend a year at CREST - Ecole Polytechnique to develop his/her research agenda before joining another institution as a PhD student. The goal of the project is to experimentally study individuals' ability to acquire and use information rationally in dynamic decision problems. The assistant researcher will collaborate with Professor Le Yaouanq and his team in every phase of the research and dissemination, including advising junior members of the team.
E-mail: erc.crest@ensae.fr
Research Field: Economics » Econometrics
Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent
The candidate must have a strong interest in microeconomic theory, behavioral economics and/or experimental economics, and some coding skills (PhP and/or Python, SQL, R or Stata) for the preparation of the online experiments and the data analysis.
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