Student assistant (with or without Bachelor)

07/15/2025 Open positions

The ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (www.zbw.eu) is the world’s largest information centre for economic literature. The institution holds more than 4 million media units and enables access to millions of online documents in economics. The ZBW is a research-based academic library and a member of the Leibniz Association. In addition, the ZBW is scientifically affiliated to the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.

The JDA Replication Lab is a joint project of departments C4 – Digital Economics, C2 – Publication Services, and D1 – Information Services and Publishing Technologies, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The goal of the project is to pilot an environment that enables economics journals to efficiently conduct reproducibility checks.

We are looking for

student assistants (with or without Bachelor)

at the Hamburg or Kiel location for the JDA Replication Lab in the department of Digital Economics (C4) .

The position is initially for one year with the option of extension in accordance with the Scientific Fixed-Term Contract Act (WissZeitVG). The monthly working time is 30 to 40 hours/month . The hourly remuneration amounts to 14,- € for student assistants without Bachelor degree ("studentische Hilfskräfte”) and to 15,- € for student assistants with a Bachelor degree ("wissenschaftliche Hilfskräfte”).

Your tasks:

• Participation in a compulsory introductory course on 13.10 and 14.10.25 at the University of Hamburg with the first Data Editor of the American Economic Association
• Check program codes of research papers that are published or submitted for publication in R or Stata
• Documentation of feedback on the program code
• Participation in a regular online discussion (every 1 to 2 weeks) with colleagues

Your profile:

Essential

• Enrolled in a degree program at a German university
• At least Basic knowledge of programming in R or Stata, with an interest in acquiring further skills on the job
• A careful and independent way of working
• Good command of English

Desirable

• Good knowledge of mathematics, computer science, statistics, or empirical economic and social research
• Interest in economic research or Open Science

We offer…

• An exciting job in a diverse environment in which you can put your ideas directly into practice and in which both teamwork and the potential for personal development are central components
• A workplace next to Hamburg's Alster Lake or the Kiel Fjord in a friendly team
• Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home
• For UHH students or students able to take guest credit: Opportunity to earn credits towards a Bachelor’s degree in Socioeconomics and guaranteed supervision of Bachelor's or Master's theses in the fields of Socioeconomics and Economics by the Chair of Digital Economics