On-campus Part-time Research Assistant Needed -- For a Project on Spatial Mobility of Bureaucrats in Chinese Organizations Project Description: Professor Xueguang Zhou (Sociology Department at Stanford) and his research team are working on a project on the spatial mobility of government officials in China’s bureaucratic organizations and its implications for governance and economic development. We are now looking for a part-time research assistant to help with data cleaning and statistical analysis. Tasks/Duties: • Collecting and cleaning data (most of the data have already been collected, but we need a research assistant that can help us to clean the data using STATA (if you are more familiar with R or other software, that’s also fine)) • Help with programming in: • Visualization of spatial mobility of high-rank officials; • Network analysis (we need to analyze networks at several levels, i.e., network of officials, network of bureaus, network of administrative units, etc.) Requirements: • Stanford undergraduate student (funding is available ONLY for Stanford undergraduates) • Programming skill, familiar with some statistical software such as STATA, R, Matlab, Python, etc. • Have some knowledge of network analysis and spatial visualization. • Some familiarity with Chinese character is preferable but not required. Wage: • $15 per hour, maximum 10 hours per week (standard Stanford undergraduate rate) • Duration: winter, spring quarters, and (possibly) summer quarter To apply, please send your CV to: Ling Zhu, Ph.D candidate of Sociology, Master of Statistics, Email: Phone: (650)7149978