Research collaborators
An honest, open call for episodic research partnerships on specific problem types. This is not headcount expansion, and it is not a posting for full-time roles.
What this is
The firm operates as one principal supported, on specific engagements, by a small set of named research collaborators. When a client question requires depth we do not carry in-house, we scope a project with one or more collaborators, retain them on a written agreement, and credit them by name on the resulting work.
This page exists because we would rather meet potential collaborators in advance of need than scramble when a deadline lands. If your work overlaps with what we do, and the model below sounds reasonable, we want to hear from you.
What we are looking for
Most of our collaboration needs cluster in a few areas: PhD economists and ABDs working in international trade, open-economy macro, the economics of AI and automation, energy and climate, food and agricultural economics, health economics, and labor. We also work with people who bring serious computational economics talent, from structural estimation to large-scale simulation.
We have recurring need for deep country expertise (especially in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Gulf, and Sub-Saharan Africa) and for data engineers who can build reproducible pipelines against administrative, satellite, and high-frequency private data. If you sit in one of those buckets, your note will be read.
What collaboration looks like
Engagements are scoped to a defined deliverable: a brief, a model, a replication package, a memo. Compensation is per project or per brief, agreed in writing before work begins, and disclosed transparently inside the engagement. There is no "prove yourself first" tier and no spec work.
Where a collaborator's contribution is material to a published brief, they are credited as a named co-author. Code and data work to the same replication standard the firm holds itself to: versioned, documented, runnable by a stranger. We expect the same disclosures of conflicts and prior funding that we make ourselves.
What this is not
This is not a full-time job posting. We are not building a permanent team, and we are not in a position to offer salary, benefits, or guaranteed pipeline. If you are looking for stable employment, this is the wrong door.
It is also not equity-as-pay, deferred compensation against future revenue, or unpaid "visibility" work. We do not ask collaborators to write for free in exchange for exposure, and we do not run unpaid trials. Compensation is cash, scoped, and paid on the terms agreed at the start.
How to express interest
Route through /engage and select "Collaborator interest" in the decision field. Include a short paragraph on your background, the problem types you would want to work on, any country or sector specialization, and a link to a CV or scholar page. We read everything that comes in, reply when there is a plausible fit, and keep notes for when the next relevant engagement appears.