Public Purpose of Venture Capital
Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.
This project studies public programs that subsidize investment in early stage ventures. The goal is to compile data on these "public purpose" venture capital projects, and compare them to traditional forms of venture capital. An ideal research assistant will have both quantitative data analysis skills in Stata, R, and/or Python and qualitative skills, as they will work with existing data from government sources as well as use webscraping and analysis techniques to generate new data.
Role: Undergraduate researchers will compile and analyze novel datasets, create publication-quality graphs and tables, and do qualitative research to help write up an academic paper.
Qualifications: Background in data analysis required, with at least one course practicing data cleaning, running regressions and making tables and figures in Python, R, or Stata.
Hours: to be negotiated
Social Sciences