2025-26 AY PT Research Fellowship: Health Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Stanford King Center on Global Development’s Academic Year Part-Time Research Fellowship Program connects King Center faculty affiliates and affiliated researchers with undergraduate students committed to providing research support during autumn, winter, and spring quarters.
Students have the opportunity to engage in world-class research that has real-world impact. Undergraduate student research fellows are paid $19/hour. Students must be enrolled full-time to participate and must be able to commit to research 8-10 hours per week.
*Students must attend orientation and submit an I-9 form to verify employment and receive payment.
Research Project Description:
The student will support with early-stage research on health economics in sub-Saharan Africa. This includes a planned experiment Uganda (and possibly Kenya) studying the demand for antibiotics, medical provider behavior and prescribing practices, and policies that aim to improve healthcare provision for pediatric fevers and upper-respiratory infections.
The student will support with data cleaning and exploratory analysis, literature review, and learn about the early stage design of a randomized controlled trial.
Primary Research Mentor: Carlos Paramo, Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Stanford undergraduate students in good academic standing and enrolled full-time are eligible to apply. Co-term students must have undergraduate student status; if co-terms are in graduate billing status (after 12 quarters) they are ineligible to participate.
All majors are welcome!
Students Responsibilities:
The student will support with
- data cleaning and exploratory analysis
- literature review
- support in the review of study instruments and surveys,
- and learn about the early stage design of a randomized controlled trial.
Students qualifications:
- Coding experience or coursework (R, Python, and / or Stata preferred)
- Interest / coursework in economics
- Some coursework on statistics / econometrics / data analysis is preferred
Time Commitment:
The time commitment is 8-10 hours per week (equivalent to a 3-unit course) each academic quarter. The expectation is that students will work the full academic year with their mentor (Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters). Students planning on studying abroad are not eligible.
To Apply:
Along with the application, applicants are asked to submit:
- a cover letter
- resume or CV
- unofficial Stanford transcript (first quarter frosh do not need to submit transcripts for autumn quarter applications)
