The Stanford Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab - PovGov

The Stanford Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab (PovGov) is looking to a full time Research Assistant for the summer quarter (’25).

You will be working with a team of dedicated scholars whose mission is to innovative methodologies and data streams to generate scientific understanding about the causes, consequences, and dynamics of violence. We aim with our research to contribute to restore peace, security, and protect human rights.

About the position: 

• You will support our team of researchers on one to two ongoing projects that may include a survey experiment on the relationship between corruption, rule of law and populism and support analyzing interviews for a project on the relationship between organized crime presence and gendered violence.  
• You will be assigned a mentor who will coordinate your tasks.
• You can be asked to help the Lab on a range of ad-hoc tasks and projects from our project portfolio. 
• Tasks include but are not limited to: cleaning data, help compile data-sets, help write literature reviews, support with survey design, help with data analysis. 

What we are looking for: 

• Committed and reliable RAs with a demonstrated passion for questions pertaining to poverty alleviation, violence, and governance. 
• Fluency in Spanish. 
• Demontrated skills and experience with data analysis in STATA.
• We encourage students with a background in Computer Science, Economics, or Political Science to apply.