WBG Pioneer - Reproducibility Intern

A department of the World Bank''s Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC), DEC Development Impact''s (DECDI) purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation in the design and implementation of public policy and to develop institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy. The DECDI Analytics team seeks to recruit interns to support the World Bank Reproducible Research Initiative.

The World Bank Reproducible Research Initiative is dedicated to enhancing transparency and rigor in empirical research. Over the past two years, our team has published nearly 300 reproducibility packages for World Bank papers and reports in the World Bank Reproducible Research Repository. Building on this success, we have recently expanded our mandate to include papers from the Policy Research Working Paper (PRWP) series.

The intern will assist in the reproducibility verification of working papers published in the PRWP series and in verifying that reproducibility packages published in the World Bank's Reproducible Research Repository are operational. Our initiative provides interns with a unique opportunity to contribute to global research standards and gain hands-on experience in research verification processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

Interns will report to junior data scientists and analysts within the DECDI Analytics team. Key responsibilities include:

• Verifying the stability of results in reproducibility packages analyzed from the PRWP series
• Checking the reproducibility of exhibits in working papers from the PRWP series
• Reviewing reproducibility packages posted in the World Bank's Reproducible Research Repository and flagging incomplete packages or inconsistent metadata