Research Officer (Centre for Macroeconomics)

Centre For Macroeconomics

Research Officer

Salary from £42,679 to £51,000 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £54,730 pa inclusive of London allowance

This is a fixed term appointment for 12 months and is full time

The Centre For Macroeconomics (CFM) is a research centre bringing together world class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and help design policies to alleviate it.

The CFM is seeking to appoint a full-time Research Officer to start in September 2025 or sooner to closely collaborate with Matthias Doepke on the FamilyMacro research project that spans issues in family economics and macroeconomics. The position will be based in London at the LSE.

Topics covered under this research project include the determination of family labour supply; the role of rising female labour supply in aggregate fluctuations; the economics of fertility; the economics of parenting; and other issues at the intersection of family economics, macroeconomics, and structural labour economics.

The Research Officer will support the Principal Investigator Matthias Doepke in various aspects of this research project, including empirical work, programming, and model evaluation. The Research Officer will also be expected to develop their own independent research related to the overall theme of the project. Joint work on projects related to the overall research project may lead to co-authorship opportunities on academic research papers, policy papers or op-eds and blogs.

The Research Officer will also have responsibilities for additional activities organized under the grant, including the organisation of conferences, seminars, or workshops.

Candidates Should Have

• By the post start date, a completed Ph.D. degree in economics or related discipline
• Experience with programming languages, in particular: Matlab, Python or Julia
• Experience with statistical software, in particular: R or Stata

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document , job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please go to www.jobs.lse.ac.uk . If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Coralie Simmons [email protected]

The closing date for receipt of applications is 17 th March 2025 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.