Data Jobs – Sports Betting Project (Student Volunteer) at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

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Organization: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About IPA:
Innovations
for Poverty Action (IPA) discovers and promotes effective solutions to global
poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these
solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that
the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor.
Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 350 leading academics to
conduct over 450 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed
hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals
worldwide.
About Sports Betting Project:
Sports
betting has exploded across sub-Saharan Africa. Uganda, where over 25
international companies are competing throughout the country with over 1,500
individual betting branches, is leading the charge. In Kampala, Uganda’s
capital city, both the incidence of betting and the intensity of participation
among bettors are extremely high. Early work has already shown that among 18-40
year-old men working in the informal sector more than 1 in 3 bets regularly.
Among those who bet, this population had a median of 9% and a mean of nearly
13% of weekly income spent on betting. This project seeks to understand both
the causes and consequences of such pervasive and high intensity participation
in betting.
The
Sports Betting project is a study of micro-entrepreneurs and their
participation in sports betting. The current wave of this study will include
520 young men who participate in sports betting. Between March and June 2016,
we will be creating a panel of these respondents, including five in-person
interviews every two weeks with four phone check-ins conducted on the
intermediate weeks. The project additionally includes a number of built-in
experimental treatments to understand some of the behavioral and financial
mechanisms contributing to sports betting demand.
Job Summary: The student volunteer will support the sport
betting project in Kampala. The position will offer an opportunity to gain
first-hand field and data management experience in an organization undertaking
cutting-edge development research. The student volunteer will work closely with
the Research Manager and Principal Investigator and assist in a variety of
tasks: data management, data cleaning, team management, study design, and
report writing.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The student volunteer should hold a Bachelor’s
    degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields
  • Familiarity with Stata preferred
  • Previous exposure and experience with data
    management
  • Flexible, self-motivated, able to manage
    multiple tasks efficiently and a team player
  • Familiarity with randomized controlled trials
    is preferred
  • Previous experience living in a developing
    country is a plus
  • Fluency and excellent communication skills in
    English
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send an updated CV and a
cover letter to sherskowitz@berkeley.edu.
In the email body: Put your
full name, first (given) name followed by last (family) name.
Attachments: Please
attach your resume and cover letter.
In the subject line: Copy
exactly the following position line: IPA Uganda – Sports Betting – Student
Volunteer Project
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