The World Inequality Lab is recruiting a Summer Intern W/M
Structure: PSE – World Inequality Lab
Study level: Master’s student
Experience: 0-2 years
Contract: Internship Agreement - 8 weeks full-time
Start date: Starting from June 17th, 2024
Compensation: Legal, at 4.35€ gross per hour
Location: Jourdan Campus, Paris 14th
Languages: English
Environment
The Paris School of Economics (PSE) aims to develop economic research and disseminate its results at the highest international level. It brings together a community of 135 researchers and 166 PhD students, and offers a range of cutting-edge courses in economics (Masters, PhD, Summer School, etc.). PSE was founded in 2006 by CNRS, EHESS, ENS, École des Ponts-ParisTech, INRAE and Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. A young, fast-growing structure, PSE works with a large number of public and private partners in France, Europe and abroad. It develops and supports a number of innovative projects, including the World Inequality Lab (WIL).
The World Inequality Lab (WIL) is a PSE research laboratory focused on the study of global inequalities. For almost ten years, the WIL has worked to produce evidence-based research on the various dimensions of inequality, both within and between countries. The results are disseminated through research papers, reports, events and media interventions. The WIL also hosts and maintains the World Inequality Database (WID), the most extensive open-access public database on global inequality dynamics. The WIL team is made of about twenty researchers and professionals based at PSE, and works closely with an international network of over 100 academics affiliated with the WID.
Position
Are you looking for a summer internship? We invite you to join the climate & inequalities team at the World Inequality Lab, led by Lucas Chancel. The research project you will be involved in aims to estimate the impact of climate change on the global distribution of wealth.
You will be involved in:
- Cleaning and managing large-scale historical climate and weather data,
- Merging climate and wealth databases,
- Conducting preliminary econometric analyses.
Profile
You are a student (between the first and second year or between a Master’s thesis and a future PhD). You are looking to gain practical experience in empirical research applied to climate change and inequalities. Some familiarity with the economic literature on climate damages is desirable.
You are proficient in programming in R (proficiency in other programming languages is a plus). You have a strong interest in the economics of climate change and the estimation of climate-related damages. You are familiar with spatial data analysis in R (and possibly the sf package in R). You are organized, particularly for managing projects involving a large amount of code. Finally, you have an interest in issues related to the measurement of income and wealth.
You will be integrated into a team whose working language is English: therefore, for this internship, it is important that you are proficient in English (both spoken and written).
PSE – WIL welcomes applications from all candidates and guarantees equal treatment for all. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.
Please send your application (CV, grade transcript and and a short motivation letter) before the 2nd June to philipp.bothe at psemail.eu, specifying your first and last name in the subject line: "Application – Internship Climate Team". Incomplete or incorrectly referenced applications will not be considered.