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Advertiser: Charles River Associates

Field(s) of specialization: Labor; Demographic Economics - Health; Education; Welfare - Statistics - Applied microeconomics

Position type(s): Consultant

Location of job: See advertisement

Degree required: Doctorate

Job start date: Flexible

Job duration: Continuing/permanent

Letters of reference required: 3

Application deadline: 1 Nov 2025 midnight UTC (accepting applications)

Posting end date: 1 Dec 2025

Interviews: Interviews will be conducted remotely by video starting December, 2025.

Ad text:

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. For 60 years, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry expertise and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provides clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.

CRA seeks new PhD economists with strong grounding in Labor Economics or Microeconomics to join CRA’s Labor & Employment practice.

Explore how CRA can help you launch your career and learn why PhDs choose CRA.

Our Labor & Employment practice hiring office locations are College Station, TX; Los Angeles, CA; Tallahassee, FL; and Washington, DC.

CRA’s Labor & Employment practice provides expertise and support in a range of litigation disputes involving employment processes, such as compensation, hiring, promotion, termination, and the role of gender, race, ethnicity, and age in employment practices. Our clients, which include preeminent law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies, come to us for our technical skills, rigorous analysis, and expert insight they need to understand all aspects of their employment data. We also assist employers by conducting proactive studies of employment and contracting practices, monitoring consent decrees and settlement agreements, and designing systems to track employment practices.

Senior Associate responsibilities may include:

• Conducting research in a team-oriented environment alongside some of the most respected academics, industry experts, and regulators in the world;
• Identifying and conceptualizing issues, designing complex economic models to analyze data, and managing the research process;
• Supervising, training and mentoring research staff;
• Assisting in the development and presentation of client deliverables, including expert reports and white papers summarizing opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using market, industry or client-proprietary data;
• Acting as a primary contact for attorneys and other industry or government clients on a variety of practice-relevant issues;
• Programming, model building and/or performing regression analyses in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, SAS, Python, or R);
• Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions; and,
• Participating in practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).

As most of our work takes place in CRA’s offices, minimal travel is required.

Desired Qualifications

Successful candidates will have or be expected to complete a Ph.D. in economics by 2026 and will have specific expertise in the fields of labor, applied microeconomics, or other quantitative areas.

CRA provides immigration assistance to eligible foreign nationals in accordance with the firm’s immigration policy and applicable law.

To Apply

To be considered for all interview opportunities, candidates must:

• Submit the CRA online application on our website, including curriculum vitae, cover letter, and a copy of a research/job market paper or dissertation. If you have geographic office preference(s), please indicate that in the application;
• Submit 3 letters of recommendation to LORSubmission@crai.com.

Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity

Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Deadline

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, with first round interviews occurring virtually. To be considered, please submit your application no later than November 1, 2025 Note: This posting will close at midnight UTC 1 Nov, which is 7 pm US Eastern Time and 4 pm US Pacific Time. Candidates who are focusing their search on industry and consulting and would like to be considered early should indicate that in the CRA online application and submit all materials as early as possible.