Role: Economist
Education: Masters or PhD in Economics
Experience: 8-12 years
Salary: 12-24 LPA
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About The Role

The org study youth opportunity in India. We need an economist who can make sure everything we publish is analytically sound- and who genuinely understands India's employment debates.

What You'll Do

- Keep our methodology defensible- indicator selection, weighting, how we aggregate data
- Track and engage with core debates: services vs manufacturing, AI and jobs, skills mismatch, informalization
- Work with government databases — PLFS, Census, ASI, ASUSE
- Write policy explainers and commentary grounded in data
- Write Python/R/Stata scripts to generate and update our YouthPOWER index scores
- Ask the hard question on every output: "Can we actually say this based on our data?"

Who You Are

- PhD or robust Masters in Economics (development or labour preferred)




- You know India's employment landscape — not just from papers but from data
- You've worked with Indian administrative data and know its limitations
- You code cleanly and make defensible choices with messy data
- You can translate rigorous analysis into something a policymaker can read

Good to Have

- Familiarity with district-level governance and pilots
- Experience with global youth development frameworks or capability indices

If you find yourself fact-checking employment statistics in casual conversation, this role is for you.

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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. This job is first posted on March 20, 2026, on Ground Zero

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