Summer 2021 Student Research Assistant with Tom Ginsburg
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Faculty
Tom Ginsburg, The Law School (tginsburg@uchicago.edu)
Position
Student Research Assistant
Project Description
Professor Tom Ginsburg is seeking research assistantship for the creation and analysis of a new dataset on some 500 international organizations to understand the determinants of their internal characteristics and their relation with democracy measures. The goal for the summer is to have a cleaned data set, some regressions and graphic representation. Other work as needed to supplement the data for the constituteproject.org website.
Required Skills
Stata skills-preparing data sets, running regressions, creating graphs.
Timing
Summer, 2021
Hours:
40 hours/week