2021-22 "Entrepreneurship Education to Aid Developing Economies""
The Stanford King Center on Global Development’s Academic Year Part-Time Research Assistant Program connects King Center faculty affiliates and affiliated researchers with undergraduate and master's students committed to providing research support for up to 15 hours per week during fall, winter, and spring quarters.
Students have the opportunity to engage in world-class research and have real-world impact. Undergraduate student research assistants earn $17.50 per hour and master's student research assistants earn $25 per hour. Research assistants can work a maximum of 15 hours per week. Students must be enrolled full-time to participate.
RESEARCH PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
With 25.9M refugee cases recorded by the UN in 2018, refugees' self-reliance has become a challenge for policymakers. Recent research focuses on refugees' wage employment to address this issue, while many refugee-hosting countries struggle with a high unemployment rate of their citizens. This project focuses on entrepreneurship as a solution for the refugees' self-reliance issue. Literature shows that refugees have stronger entrepreneurial incentives compared to local citizens, but they face greater challenges in starting and growing their businesses. This project aims to study how providing entrepreneurship education and facilitating refugees' team formation using data-driven methods, such as machine learning and matching algorithms, can promote entrepreneurship among refugees.
Research mentor: Charles Eesley (Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering)
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
The intervention will be implemented through a 10-week entrepreneurship education program for refugees. The student will work as a teaching assistant of this course and is responsible with:
- Preparing the course material on the EdX course page
- Communicating with the applicants to the program about the status and enroll the admitted participants.
- Day-to-day virtual communication with the participants and tracking the course participation and assignment submissions
- Holding office hours to answer questions
- Communication with Stanford and Local partner stakeholders to inform them about the status of the program
- Draft summary report of teams’ performance and potential intervention for future rounds
- Stanford undergraduate and master's students in good academic standing are eligible to apply
- All majors are welcome
- Being proactive and ready to learn
- Passionate about teaching and mentoring students
- Familiarity with entrepreneurship and interest in mentoring entrepreneurial projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Sound judgment, able to handle sensitive or confidential information with discretion
- Familiarity with data analysis software such as Stata or R is a plus
Time Commitment:
10-15 hours per week during the academic year
To Apply:
Along with the application, applicants are asked to submit a cover letter, resume or CV, and a Stanford transcript (if an incoming freshman, applicants need not submit a transcript for fall quarter applications).
