Research Assistant (RA) opportunities

Most semesters I look to hire a research assistant(s) to help progress my projects. As a part of RA opportunities for Bachelor's and Master's students I generally provide selected candidates with guidance on writing, statistical methods, and data analysis skills that are useful in both academic and non-academic contexts.

I expect my research assistants to demonstrate the following capabilities:

1. Proficiency with Stata to conduct data cleaning and statistical analysis

2. Proficiency with Python to conduct data cleaning, visualization and statistical analysis. Strong candidates can demonstrate meaningful experience using NumPy, Pandas, Scipy and Matplotlib libraries

3. Willingness and ability to work independently

4. Strong written and oral communication skills

If you believe that you have these qualifications and it's towards the beginning of an academic semester (Jan, May, Sep), feel free to reach out to see if I am currently hiring.

Past and Current Research Assistants

I've had the pleasure of working with many bright undergraduate and graduate level students at both UT Austin and Cornell.

RAs involved in the CleanAirbnb project have contributed to the public GitHub project available here: https://github.com/kytola/CleanAirbnb

• Fall 2020 - Spring 2021: Jacob Carrasco 

Focus on short-term rental market regulation and development of data processing code. Contributor to the CleanAirbnb project.

• Spring 2021: Xiaohan (Jessica) Wu

Focus on effectiveness of Payroll Protection Program loans to small businesses during COVID-19 pandemic

• Fall 2021 - Spring 2022: Nat Fernelius

Focus on short-term rental market regulation and development of data processing code. Contributor to the CleanAirbnb project.

• Summer 2022: Xiaohan (Jessica) Wu

Focus on foreclosure prevention policies and bank loan modification practices. This work is in direct support of

my Job Market Paper.

• Spring 2023: Rajan Topiwala

Focus on short-term rental market regulation. This work is in direct support of my paper on STR regulation in

the city of San Francisco.

• Fall 2023: Brittanie Chen

Focus on natural disaster relief disbursement within the United States and optimal policy design in this context.

• Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Syed (Askari) Raza

Focus on data processing code relating both to short-term rental markets and residential mortgage markets. Contributor to the CleanAirbnb project.

• Fall 2023 - Spring 2024: Advait Mani

Focus on drivers of residential mortgage servicing rights transfers and their impacts on mortgage performance.

• Summer 2024 - Present: Shashwat Chaterji

Focus on short-term rental market regulation and understanding peer-to-peer market supply behavior.