PreDoctoral Fellow, CIDER; SC Johnson College of Business

Our College: Leading at the intersection of people, business, and technology, the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is one of the most comprehensive business schools in the nation and includes many areas of expertise not found in any other leading institution. The college is comprised of the university's three accredited business schools, each of which is recognized as among the best in higher education: the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Our academic research; industry and community engagement; and undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs all reflect the future of business: flexible, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary. The college community includes 232 research faculty, 46,000 alumni, and nearly 3,300 undergraduate, professional, and graduate students. The SC Johnson College of Business has an unparalleled resource base from which to draw-within the college, Cornell Tech in New York City, and Cornell University broadly.The OpportunityThe Cornell Collaboration for International Development Economics Research (CIDER) Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship Program is a full-time, post-baccalaureate opportunity designed for individuals seeking preparation for doctoral study in Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Development Studies, Public Policy, or related disciplines. Fellows work closely with Cornell faculty whose research focuses broadly on development economics, providing support for quantitative research and data analysis across a variety of ongoing projects. The CIDER faculty can be found at https://business.cornell.edu/centers/cider/. Depending on project needs, language skills, and individual interest, opportunities for field research may also be available. In addition to contributing to faculty-led research, fellows are encouraged to engage in the intellectual life of the university through seminars, workshops, brown-bag discussions, and cohort-based professional development. We expect to recruit multiple fellows as part of a cohort that will join continuing CIDER pre-doctoral fellows. This is a full-time, one-year term staff position based onsite in Ithaca, New York, with the possibility of renewal for up to two years based on performance and the availability of funding. This term appointment offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on research experience while preparing for future doctoral studies within a collaborative and academically rigorous environment.About CIDERCIDER is a cross-campus initiative at Cornell University encompassing 25 faculty from multiple units across the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. Cornell has a prominent brand name and a rich history of leadership in international development economics research and outreach, perhaps especially in the economics of poverty, food insecurity, and agricultural and rural development. Cornell was arguably the main academic incubator of Asia's Green Revolution. The world's main poverty and food insecurity measures were developed here. So were other key theories, measures and evidence around labor markets, nutrition, poverty traps, poverty-environment interactions, power, resilience, structural transformation, etc. Rigorous applied research to influence public and private decision makers globally is a part of Cornell's role as "the land grant university to the world."Key Responsibilities :Research Support * Coordinate with faculty Principal Investigator(s) (PIs) and other members of the research team to assist in planning, designing, implementing, conducting, and analyzing research projects and associated data collection activities. * Collect, clean, manage, and analyze secondary data to support faculty-l