Graduate Student Research Intern (Income and Benefits Policy Center) at The Urban Institute in Washington, Washington DC

Job Description:

Who we are:

At the nonprofit Urban Institute, we believe in the power of evidence to improve lives and strengthen communities. Public policies work best when they are rooted in facts, and our research sparks solutions in programs and practice. Our analyses and recommendations help expand opportunities for all people, reduce hardship among the most vulnerable, and strengthen the fiscal health and effectiveness of government.

As an intern at the Urban Institute, you’ll work alongside experts across the organization and beyond in the nation’s epicenter of public policy - Washington, DC. Your work will have an impact on real-life, real-time policy issues and discussions.   

This academic internship is open to students who receive internship academic credit from Baylor University.

What you’ll experience:

You will help conduct analysis on the Emergency Meals-to-You (2020) program survey data and additional datasets from crime incident reports and traffic data to evaluate the impacts of a home-delivered meal program during the pandemic for low-income families in rural areas on crime rates and traffic patterns. The work is funded by the US Department of Agriculture in partnership with Baylor University. As the graduate student research intern, you will work alongside experts from Urban’s Income and Benefits Policy Center on this project.

How you’ll contribute

We are looking for a graduate student research intern to help conduct data analysis on the USDA project, “Mitigating the Burden of COVID-19 on the Poor: Evaluating the Effects of ‘Emergency Meals to You’ at the Individual, Family, and Community Levels.” The research intern will lead and execute a series of analytical tasks using Meals-to-You survey data and additional datasets.

Responsibilities

• Complete all Institutional Review Board training to access confidential survey data.




• Conduct data analysis using Emergency Meals-to-You survey data and additional data from crime incident reports (zip code level) and traffic data (county level)




• Create output such as regression coefficients, graphs, figures, and tables presenting aggregated data




• Provide weekly updates to the Urban research team with a summary of the week and days/hours worked.

What you’ll bring

The successful candidate will:

• Be enrolled in a graduate degree-seeking program and are required to provide documentation that they will receive internship academic credit from Baylor University.




• Have familiarity with the Emergency Meals-to-You program




• Have access to community-level data that can merge with Meals-to-You survey data




• High level of organization, motivation, creativity, self-confidence, and ability to work independently and effectively.




• Have strong written communication skills.




• Have strong time management skills and display a high level of professionalism.

The Urban Institute is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected status under applicable law.

The Urban Institute is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer -Minorities/Women/Disabilities/Veterans.

For more information about the Urban Institute, please visit our website at www.urban.org.