Diversity
MIT Sloan Predoctoral Opportunities
At MIT Sloan, helping students discover their futures and shape their life stories is an important part of our mission: to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world and to generate ideas that advance management practice. Here, we offer guidance and pathways to advanced degree and doctoral programs. Our faculty partner with all kinds of learners, from high school students to undergraduates though predoctoral students, helping them discover unimagined research careers and opportunities.
Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC)
Predoctoral research programs provide valuable early-career exposure to research techniques and offer participants a preview of what to expect in an academic career. The Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC) consortium aims to foster a talented, diverse, and inclusive population in the quantitative social sciences, with a long-term goal of increasing diversity among faculty in business schools and economics departments.
Learn more about PREDOC
Please direct questions related to MIT Sloan Predoctoral opportunities to Charlene Selle.
Current Research Opportunities
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Pre-doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate (Dr. Jackson Lu)
Open Date: Jan 18, 2024
Description:
Professor Jackson Lu is seeking a full-time Predoctoral Research Assistant in the Work and Organization Studies Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The position is for one or two years, beginning in the summer of 2024. This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking research experience in quantitative social science before entering a PhD program in organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, economics, data science, etc.
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate (Catherine Wolfram/ Mert Demirer)
Open Date: Dec 26, 2023
Description:
Professors Catherine Wolfram and Mert Demirer at the MIT Sloan School of Management are seeking highly skilled, collaborative, and motivated individuals as full-time research assistants (Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate, PA) beginning in the summer of 2024. The job will include close collaboration on new and ongoing projects in industrial organization, environmental economics, and energy economics. These positions offer the opportunity to gain training in a broad set of economic research topics and statistical methodologies. The chosen candidates will also gain valuable experience analyzing large datasets working with programs such as Stata, R, and/or Python.
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate - (Mert Demirer/ Michael Rubens)
Open Date: Oct 31, 2023
Description:
Professor Mert Demirer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Michael Rubens at UCLA are seeking highly-skilled, collaborative, and motivated individuals as full-time research assistants (Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate, PA) beginning in the summer of 2024. The position will include close collaboration on new and ongoing projects in industrial organization. The selected candidate(s) will gain exposure to and training in a broad set of research approaches and methodologies useful for applying to graduate programs.
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Pre-doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate (Antoinette Schoar)
Open Date: Dec 11, 2023
Description:
Professor Antoinette Schoar, from the MIT Sloan Finance department, is looking for highly skilled and motivated individuals to work as full-time research assistants for a period of at least one year, with the option to extend to two years. The appointment can start as early as February, 2024 or on a rolling basis. The work will entail close collaboration with all stages of the research process on several projects in the areas of fintech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, financial intermediation, and consumer finance.
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Pre-Doctoral Technical Associate - (Joseph Doyle, Alexey Makarin, Benjamin Vatter)
Open Date: Nov 20, 2023
Description:
Professors Joseph Doyle, Alexey Makarin, and Benjamin Vatter are looking for highly skilled and motivated individuals to work as full-time pre-doctoral researchers. The appointments will entail close collaboration at all stages of the research process on new and ongoing empirical projects in applied economics. Projects will use large-scale health and healthcare data to answer questions related to the optimal choices by patients, providers, and payers that affect health and healthcare costs and the impact of digital platforms such as social media on health. Empirical tools will include natural experiments, randomized trials, and structural estimation in the fields of health economics, public economics, and industrial organization.
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Pre-doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate (Charles Angelucci and Alexey Makarin)
Open Date: Nov 13, 2023
Description:
Professors Charles Angelucci and Alexey Makarin are looking for one or more highly skilled and motivated individuals to work as our full-time research assistants for a period of at least one year, ideally two. The appointment will entail close collaboration at all stages of the research process on new and ongoing empirical projects that utilize large datasets to address questions in the fields of political economy, media economics, economics of digitization, and international trade.
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Pre-doctoral Researcher - Technical Associate (Tong Liu, Lira Mota, Christopher Palmer, Kerry Siani)
Open Date: Sep 19, 2023
Description:
Professors Tong Liu, Lira Mota, Christopher Palmer, and Kerry Siani are looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral research fellows. The position duration is up to two years (one year, with potential renewal for a second), with a start date of July 1, 2024. The job will entail close collaboration at all stages of the research process on new and ongoing empirical projects which utilize large, rich datasets to address questions in the fields of corporate finance, capital markets, macro-finance, entrepreneurial finance, household finance, and micro-econometrics.