URAP

Cameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Please write Project 2: Social Psychology and Business Lab at the top of your application if you are interested in applying to our lab. We are seeking to recruit 2-3 new Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research...

Matteo Benetton - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The project is part of a large agenda trying to understand how banks compete in an evolving environment affected by changing demographics and the entry non fintech lenders and bigtech firms. One project is studying the heterogeneous preferences of borrowers and savers to explain the lengthening of the financial intermediation...

Clayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *When do consumers defer to product-review...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is an opportunity to work on technical projects involving ML/AI. The projects include: (i) working with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance by structuring and analyze the large textual data; (ii) building custom large...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research and policy work with web development and graphic design. The project involves maintaining and improving policy-related web resources such as Econ4UA.org, as well as designing and running experimental RCTs and surveys (sometimes involving new websites, sometimes executing simple Qualtrics surveys). Finally, the...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...

Ilan Morgenstern - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project explores how crime affects the operation of ridesharing platforms like Uber and Lyft. In many areas, rideshare drivers face safety concerns that shape how and where they choose to operate. Some platforms respond by allowing drivers to reject trips to high-crime areas or by excluding those zones...

Olivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This is an ongoing project which examines the effects of market structure on the market for consumer data. The project uses a variety of data sources, including many through the UCB library. If you are interested in the nuts and bolts of empirical research at the intersection of marketing, economics...

Olivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in quantitative marketing and industrial organization, including topics on product variety, pricing, and consumer demand. Examples of ongoing projects include work on business models for AI firms, and consumer search and information processing. Projects will be supervised...

Aruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This is a science-of-science / computational social science project examining how different empirical methods are used—and what impact they have—in papers published in leading management journals...

Juliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, and more. It also provides technical and...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Park Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...

Cailin Slattery - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in industrial organization and political economy, including topics on lobbying, state government, and business subsidies. Examples of ongoing projects include work on regulations that prevent Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers, and the state's use of...

J. Miguel Villas-Boas - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are looking for motivated and responsible undergraduate students to help in a research project in the Quantitative Marketing group at Berkeley Haas. This project studies the rapidly evolving business AI market. This position is a great fit for students interested in AI, technology, markets, and data-driven research...

J. Miguel Villas-Boas - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The project studies AI bias and how AI-generated information can shape consumer perceptions and market outcomes, using real-world data and machine-generated outputs. This role is a strong fit for students who want hands-on experience with LLMs/ML + empirical analysis in an active research environment. Qualified students...