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Post Doctoral Research Associate: Household Finance and Consumer Financial Decision Making

Requisition Number:

62544

Location:

Boulder, Colorado

City

Boulder

State

Colorado

Employment Type:

Research Faculty

Schedule:

Full-Time

Date Posted:

06-Mar-2025
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Job Summary

The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder is hiring a Post Doctoral Research Associate, Household Finance position in the interdisciplinary Center for Research in Consumer Financial Decision Making for Fall 2025. This will be a 2-year appointment. This position is a part of the Leeds School Research Initiative for Global Business and Citizen Well-Being.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

The University of Colorado at Boulder, and the city of Boulder, offers a rich intellectual, cultural, recreational, and family-friendly environment. Boulder is widely recognized as an entrepreneurial hub, with active venture capital, technology, natural foods, and renewable energy sectors; it is consistently recognized as one of the best places to live in the United States.

 The University of Colorado and the Leeds School of Business are nationally recognized for the excellence of our faculty, programs, and students. By joining the interdisciplinary Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making, you will be part of a collegial and influential group of business scholars with the highest standards of research excellence.

The Center conducts basic and applied research about how consumer welfare is affected by financial decisions that take place in systems created by business and government policies. People make decisions about housing and mortgages; save for college education or retirement; invest in their own human capital development to provide a stream of financial benefits over time; borrow to fund current consumption; decide which debts to pay first and how much to pay on each. They make risky investments to achieve higher wealth; pay for insurance to reduce risk; pay for health care; and cope with shocks. In all these domains, consumers are often poorly informed and susceptible to making serious errors that have immediate and delayed personal and societal consequences. Center research advances understanding of how consumers make such decisions and how they can be helped to make better decisions through innovations in public policy, business, and consumer education. The Leeds School Research Initiative for Global Business and Citizen Well Being will consider how businesses and governments around the world take different approaches to these universal human challenges and the associated differences in citizen well-being.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

  • The scholar hired will initiate and publish new research projects related to the Leeds School Initiative for Global Business and Citizen Well Being, while advancing publication of their current work and preparing for application to faculty positions.
  • During the period of the fellowship, the postdoctoral fellow is expected to be in residence, work closely with Center faculty and PhD students on research projects while advancing publication of their current work and preparing for application for faculty positions in business or economics disciplines. The selected scholar will participate actively in research seminars at Leeds and otherwise contribute to the research mission of the School, the Center, and the Initiative. Teaching opportunities may be available for qualified individuals.

What We Can Offer

  • This is a two-year contract. (Extension of the contract to a third year is possible by mutual agreement in year 2.)
  • The salary for this 100% appointment is $95,400 with full retirement and health insurance benefits. Additional benefits include an annual $5,000 allowance for research related expenses and travel, a single standard computer, IT support, and access to standard databases such as those through Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), and up to $2K in relocation moving.

Benefits

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

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What We Require

  • To be eligible, candidates must complete their PhD. by July prior to starting the fellowship and must be able to be in residence at the University of Colorado by August of 2025.
  • The strongest candidates will be those whose research interests align closely with Leeds faculty and where the postdoc and faculty member can foresee developing joint research relating to themes of the Leeds School Initiative for Global Business and Citizen Well-Being. We encourage applicants to look at the Affiliated Faculty webpage for the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making.

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:
  1. Resume/CV
  2. Cover Letter
  3. Research Proposal (2 pages)
  4. Two Published or Working Papers
If you are selected as the finalist, your degree will be verified by the CU Boulder Campus Human Resources Department using an approved online vendor. However, if your degree was obtained outside of the United States, please submit a translated version (if applicable) as an optional attachment.
 
During the application process you will need to enter contact information for two references. We will request letters of recommendation immediately following your application. 

Full consideration will be given to applications submitted by April 15th, 2025. This position will remain open until filled.
 
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email.  For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.

In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Posting Contact Information

Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources

Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu