Data Jobs - Sports Betting Project (Student Volunteer) at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Organization: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Innovations

for Poverty Action (IPA) discovers and promotes effective solutions to global

poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluates, and refines these

solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that

the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor.

Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 350 leading academics to

conduct over 450 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed

hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals

worldwide.

About Sports Betting Project:

Sports

betting has exploded across sub-Saharan Africa. Uganda, where over 25

international companies are competing throughout the country with over 1,500

individual betting branches, is leading the charge. In Kampala, Uganda’s

capital city, both the incidence of betting and the intensity of participation

among bettors are extremely high. Early work has already shown that among 18-40

year-old men working in the informal sector more than 1 in 3 bets regularly.

Among those who bet, this population had a median of 9% and a mean of nearly

13% of weekly income spent on betting. This project seeks to understand both

the causes and consequences of such pervasive and high intensity participation

in betting.

The

Sports Betting project is a study of micro-entrepreneurs and their

participation in sports betting. The current wave of this study will include

520 young men who participate in sports betting. Between March and June 2016,

we will be creating a panel of these respondents, including five in-person

interviews every two weeks with four phone check-ins conducted on the

intermediate weeks. The project additionally includes a number of built-in

experimental treatments to understand some of the behavioral and financial

mechanisms contributing to sports betting demand.

Job Summary: The student volunteer will support the sport

betting project in Kampala. The position will offer an opportunity to gain

first-hand field and data management experience in an organization undertaking

cutting-edge development research. The student volunteer will work closely with

the Research Manager and Principal Investigator and assist in a variety of

tasks: data management, data cleaning, team management, study design, and

report writing.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The student volunteer should hold a Bachelor’s
  
  degree in economics, social sciences, public policy, or related fields


• Familiarity with Stata preferred


• Previous exposure and experience with data
  
  management


• Flexible, self-motivated, able to manage
  
  multiple tasks efficiently and a team player


• Familiarity with randomized controlled trials
  
  is preferred


• Previous experience living in a developing
  
  country is a plus


• Fluency and excellent communication skills in
  
  English

All

suitably qualified and interested candidates should send an updated CV and a

cover letter to sherskowitz@berkeley.edu.

In the email body: Put your

full name, first (given) name followed by last (family) name.

Attachments: Please

attach your resume and cover letter.

In the subject line: Copy

exactly the following position line: IPA Uganda – Sports Betting – Student

Volunteer Project