Summer 2021 Research Assistant with Elisabeth Kempf

This internship is part of the University’s Jeff Metcalf Internship Program. Please review the Metcalf Interns’ Responsibility Notice to learn more about program requirements for Metcalf interns.

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Elisabeth Kempf, Booth School of Business

Professor Elisabeth Kempf is seeking research assistants for a project analyzing the effects of political polarization and partisanship on financial markets and firms. The student researcher would support the project with the following tasks: working with large datasets containing information on individuals' political leanings and mobility; merging various financial and political datasets using STATA; preparing graphs and descriptive statistics; performing OLS regression analysis; helping to create presentations in LaTeX.

STATA, LaTeX, MS office as well as prior coursework in statistics. Preferred skills: Python, prior coursework in Applied Regression Analysis and computer programming.