Summer 2026 Internships

Applicants may be asked to participate in several interviews with gui2de staff and faculty, submit coding examples, and complete a brief STATA test. However, please note that this is an experiential learning opportunity, and there are no prerequisites. We hope that the internship serves as an opportunity for students to learn new skills and continue to strengthen pre-existing skills. We are looking for students who are eager to get involved in both the logistical and analytics components of empirical research projects, and who demonstrate strong abilities to work collaboratively with diverse teams, problem-solve, and work with self-direction. No previous international experience is required.  

Please contact Whitney Tate, gui2de’s Executive Director, with any questions.

*Please note that if you have already secured equivalent external funding, gui2de will not provide an additional stipend. However, if you have partial external funding, gui2de will issue a stipend for the difference, up to a combined total of $3,500. The stipend is not taxed.

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Supporting Teacher Achievement in Rwandan Schools (STARS)

Location: Rwanda

STARS is an adaptive, experimental pathway to scale, utilizing A-B testing to explore alternative design variations for pay-for-performance teacher contracts. The initiative is a collaborative effort with the government and other implementation partners, notably Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA). Building upon a prior RCT conducted in Rwanda, the study’s objective is to develop and assess a viable model for the widespread implementation of learning-outcome-based performance contracts for teachers. 

Interns will engage  in a range of tasks during the endline phase, including student learning data collection and various measurement activities. Interns will need to develop materials, conduct training and monitor the digitization and grading processes in the field, and will engage in survey data collection supporting the design.Interns will also be tasked with conducting data quality checks and data cleaning procedures, as well as contributing to analytical reports. Beyond data-related responsibilities, interns will collaborate with project partners to support additional implementation activities. This may involve coordinating logistics and facilitating communication between different project components.

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Give Directly Urban Refugee Cash Transfer Project

Location: Kenya

Students will contribute to the GiveDirectly Research Project which is implementing a large-scale RCT among refugees and vulnerable host populations in Nairobi, Kenya. GiveDirectly is delivering large cash transfers in partnership with Equity Bank. And through a partnership with the Equity Group Foundation, GiveDirectly is coordinating the delivery of entrepreneurship and financial literacy training for selected study participants. The study examines the impacts of these interventions on refugee livelihoods, social cohesion, and consumer, producer, and input prices, among other outcomes. Outcomes are measured in quarterly follow-up rounds from October 2025 through an endline in June-August 2026. This design sheds light on the relative importance of liquidity and human capital constraints for refugees, and on the relative importance of these constraints among comparably situated host-community members. 

The randomization varies transfer saturation levels across Nairobi neighborhoods. Exploiting this variation we test whether local demand constrains refugees’ entrepreneurial growth, and whether refugees respond differently to demand from their own community relative to hosts residing in their neighborhoods.

The study is in the follow-up phase and will begin endline surveys over the summer, meaning that  the interns will mostly help with midline and endline survey data collection, including instrument design and piloting, enumerator training, data preloads and dynamic analyses, high frequency data quality checks, live data cleaning. In the field, there may also be non-survey data collection, focus group facilitation, coordination with study partners to ensure proper program implementation and to set up the data sharing pipeline across multiple actors. On the study design component of the work, there may be opportunities to contribute to the pre-analysis plans, definition of study outcomes and their construction, and more.

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Tanzania Education Lab

Location: Tanzania

Students will work on the What Works Hub for Global Education (WWHGE) project in Tanzania. The WWHGE Program is a large, multi-country research project, co-funded by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British Council. The WWHGE program in Tanzania aims to expand the evidence base around education reform and studying the implementation of the national Teacher Continuous Professional Development (TCPD) policy by establishing a Tanzania Institute of Education Lab (TIE-EdLab) that will design and implement the research activities.

Students will work closely with our partners in Tanzania on 1) collecting baseline data through a phone survey, this will involve piloting and programming the survey instrument, enumerator training, high frequency checks and data cleaning. 2) conduct UX research for the online learning platform through focus groups, interviews, surveys etc. 3) collect administrative data from various government departments.  4) analyze the collected data by producing reports and data visualizations.

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Digital Voices Project

Location: India

Digital technologies are transforming democratic life through citizens’ everyday efforts to document local problems, circulate information, and pressure the state. Platforms such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, alongside emerging local sites and apps, are awash in videos, testimonials, and community reporting intended to improve accountability. Our project, Digital Voices, funded by the Tech and Public Policy Grant (funded by McCourt and Project Liberty) asks whether and how citizen-generated and -reported information—facilitated through digital platforms—can activate and sustain democratic practice. We explore three interconnected questions: (1) What kinds of citizen-generated information feel relevant and actionable in a noisy media environment? (2) When does exposure to such information shift citizens’ sense of efficacy and expectations of government responsiveness? (3) When does this translate into real-world action—especially collective action?

The project will be in the pilot phase this summer, so an intern would work with a graduate student RA and our NGO partner to create materials for the treatment arms; program and pilot the baseline survey instrument; screen the treatment videos and materials through focus groups and interviews; collect administrative data for our study locations; and help us create a strategy for the roll-out.

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Tax Evasion Among Firms

Location: Uganda

TBA: Please check back soon for more information. You will be able to edit your application should you choose to apply for this project after it is posted. 

Additional questions? Please contact gui2de executive director, Whitney Tate, at wo103@georgetown.edu.