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Are you are an undergraduate student with a federal work-study award? Would you be interested in assisting with faculty research for your work-study employment? If so, the Work-Study Research Assistant Program can help connect you to available research opportunities on campus. 12090 | Metin Cosgel | Economics | The student will be asked to use Microsoft Excel to enter data and compare information across two different datasets for match, accuracy, and patterns. The data will be used for research on how race and gender were related to the rates of crime and incarceration in New England in the nineteenth century. All necessary training and guidance will be provided. Job responsibilities may be completed remotely. Fully remote opportunity that is open to undergraduate students at all UConn campuses. | Open | | 11942 | Oskar Harmon | Economics | Across the country COVID-19 and the Great Recession 2007 strained university finances and many cut spending on men’s and women’s athletics resulting in several Title IX lawsuits (including one filed by the UConn Women’s Row Team). Title IX requires proportionate spending on men’s and women‘s athletics and the lawsuits argue that these universities likely were already not in compliance and the cuts further increased the imbalance and therefore the noncompliance. This research seeks to empirically model which Title IX lawsuits and threats of Title IX lawsuits are successful and unsuccessful and the explanatory variables the analysis will focus on are financial position, and past spending on men’s/women’s athletic programs. The research assistant for this project will work remotely and assist in a review of the literature of these recent Title IX cases by summarizing the justification for the Title IX lawsuit, the economic data presented by plaintiffs and defendants, and the resolution of the lawsuits. Fully remote opportunity that is open to undergraduate students at all UConn campuses. | Open | | 11944 | Oskar Harmon | Economics | States in the US have different policy response to COVID 19 ranging from stay-at-home orders, school closures, mandatory isolation for travelers, and temporary shutdown of non-essential businesses.
The policy responses differed in timing, some were earlier than others, in severity, some were more comprehensive than others and will likely have a differential impact on the speed of economic recovery in each state. The methodology of this study is to calculate the speed of recovery in each state then measure the effect of the degree of stringency of COVID measures on the recovery while holding constant each states’ speed of recovery in the three most recent economic recessions (1990, 2001, 2007).The research assistant for this project will work remotely and assist in a review of the literature of current research on measuring the effects of COVID and state policy responses on economic recovery across the 50 States. Fully remote opportunity that is open to undergraduate students at all UConn campuses. | Open | | 11886 | Nishith Prakash | Economics & Human Rights | Dr. Prakash’s primary research interests include development, political economy, public policy, the economics of education, and behavioral economics. Throughout his academic pursuit, Prof. Prakash has focused on the relationship between government policies and economic development and harnessed rigorous empirical evidence to study the impact of policies and institutions in enabling inclusive growth. He has experience in conducting surveys in developing countries, working with large-scale observational and administrative data sets, and conducting field experiments (RCTs). Prof. Prakash has worked closely with the Department of Education (in Bihar, Nepal, Zanzibar, and Zambia), the State Police (in Bihar, and Telangana), the Ministry of Home Affairs (Government of India), and the World Bank. His teaching interests include Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Economics of Gender and Inequality.
Research assistants will work across many fields, including development and labor economics, to help conduct research on a variety of projects. An RA will be required to have knowledge of statistical methods for causal inference, writing and communication skills, and a team-player attitude. There are a variety of tasks that are associated with this job, but overall we are looking for someone who is motivated to learn and passionate about research and economics. Fully remote opportunity that is open to undergraduate students at all UConn campuses.. |
More undergraduate research opportunities are available here: https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/work-study/opportunities/ For more information, contact: Office of Undergraduate Research at OUR@uconn.edu
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