Open postdoctoral position through the Stanford Impact Labs Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with Profs. David Grusky and Juliana Bidadanure .
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford Impact Labs is an initiative at Stanford University that invests in highly motivated teams of researchers and practitioners—impact labs—to generate new insights and solutions to persistent social problems. To begin in the Fall of 2023, Stanford Impact Labs is now accepting applications to the two-year postdoctoral fellowship program in collaboration with four research teams.
We are seeking a diverse pool of applicants who wish to join a team-based, collaborative community and who value the different skills, expertise, and perspectives necessary to design, conduct, sustain, and disseminate public impact research. We particularly encourage applications from women, minority, and first-generation PhD recipients, as well as candidates from a broad diversity of PhD-granting institutions.
For this position, the postdoc will be working with the Economic Inclusion Project. The purpose of this project—a joint undertaking of the Stanford Basic Income Lab  (BIL), the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality  (CIP), and the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences —is to examine the effects of (a) the new guaranteed income pilots in California, and (b) the planned Baby Bonds pilots in California. Using a mix of survey, administrative, qualitative, and experimental approaches, the project will equip state and local government partners with gold-standard estimates of the effects of expanding these pilots into expansive programs for all low-wealth and low-income children. We are currently recruiting a postdoctoral scholar with a strong background in statistical analysis, causal inference, and machine learning.
Mentorship Structure
The postdoctoral fellow will be supervised by Profs. David Grusky and Juliana Bidadanure and will collaborate with research scholars, staff, and PhD students affiliated with BIL and CIP. Mentorship of the Postdoctoral Fellow will be structured according to research and professional interests.
In addition, a goal of the Stanford Impact Labs Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is to create a diverse community of scholars who are motivated and equipped to pursue academic careers focused on partnership and solutions-oriented research. Postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to engage with one another and with the broader Stanford Impact Labs team and community, and will participate in professional development, cohort-building, and other programming activities.