Regional Research Economist, Economic Research

The role

You will collaborate with governments, academia, industry, and civil society to measure and understand AI's economic effects. You will develop the Anthropic Economic Index and establish new methodologies to measure AI usage and impact.

What you will do

• Build and maintain relationships with academic institutions, policy think tanks, and other research partners
• Advance research collaborations that answer country- or regional-specific economic impact questions
• Translate research insights into actionable recommendations for policy discussions
• Make fundamental contributions to the development and expansion of the Anthropic Economic Index
• Design and collaborate on empirical research on AI's economic effects
• Develop new methodological approaches for studying AI's impact on labor markets, productivity, and economic trajectories
• Work cross-functionally with other technical teams to improve measurement infrastructure and data collection
• Amplify external engagement through research publications, policy briefs, and presentations

Required qualifications

• PhD in Economics
• Strong track record of empirical research, particularly studies combining novel data sources and economic theory or implementing frontier methods in causal inference and machine learning
• Demonstrated experience working in, and relevant relationships across, the region
• Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, or similar tools for large-scale data analysis
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex research projects from conception to publication
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical findings to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships across academic, policy, and industry communities

Nice to have

• Experience relevant to the study of AI's impact on the economy, such as labor market analysis and occupational change
• Task-based approaches to technological transformation
• Large-scale data analysis and econometric methods
• Large language models for social science research
• Policy-relevant economic research
• Experimental and quasi-experimental methods for causal inference
• Macroeconomic modeling and time series forecasting
• Agent-based modeling and large-scale simulation
• Experience working with novel datasets and measurement systems
• Comfort learning new technical tools and frameworks

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, but we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.