AI Economic Indicators at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab: Research Assistant Opportunities
Please note that this position is open to Stanford students only.
The Stanford Digital Economy lab is looking for research assistants with excellent analytical and organizational skills and outstanding academic credentials to support the AI Economic Indicators project. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Please allow 4-6 weeks processing time after the form is submitted. You can apply here. Please apply with your Stanford email.
Hours: 10-20 hrs/week during school year, 30-40 hrs/week summer
Salary: $25-29/hr, based on skills and experience.
Application Requirement: Submit the application above with your resume.
Education & experience requirements
- Senior, co-term, or graduate-level Stanford student.
- Work, research, or internship experience providing both quantitative and qualitative research support, and/or project coordination experience preferred.
- Proficiency with R or Python is required.
- Creative research skills and strong writing skills are essential.
- Knowledge of and keen interest in AI desired.
Core duties:
Support the ongoing operation and expansion of the AI Economic Indicators through projects which could include:
- Develop and maintain the AI Economic Indicators reporting and vintage control platform.
- Assist with data gathering, cleaning, analyzing using state of the art techniques, and data visualization.
- Assist with drafting, editing, and proofreading published materials, such as research reports, and data briefs.
- Write summary documents; compile abstracts, summaries, and analyses of books and articles.
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab is an interdisciplinary research group that studies how digital technologies are transforming work, organizations, and the economy. The Lab focuses on four core areas of research: Economics of Transformative AI, New Measures of the Economy, Digital Platforms and Society, and AI Agents. The Lab’s insights help companies, policymakers, students, and professionals rise to the challenges and opportunities created by digitization.
The Stanford Digital Economy Lab is an initiative of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and is co-sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
About the AI Economic Indicators
The AI Economic Indicators is a platform to track how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, productivity, and value creation in the economy. The AI Economic Indicators presents regularly updated data, interactive dashboards, and research in one place, giving policymakers, researchers, employers, and workers tools and information to help them make sense of a powerful new technology.
Traditional economic statistics weren’t built for a technology that can fundamentally change work down to the task level or deliver value to consumers in ways that conventional price measures can’t capture. That can lead to real shifts, positive or negative, being missed or recognized well after they occur. The Indicators is meant to close that gap as an accessible source of curated information meant to empower policymakers, business executives, and individual workers to make better-informed decisions.
