Economist, Remote/Delhi

Location: Delhi, India, , India

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 strong 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.

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

HINDI & ENGLISH