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The Salem Center helps students of all ages learn how to obtain and analyze data-driven insights.

Policy Research Laboratory

Learn about our intensive research training class and become a Research Fellow with the Salem Center
Call for Research Assistants

Policy Research Laboratory Fall 2023

The Salem Center for Policy at McCombs is looking for outstanding, curious, and driven students to participate in the Policy Research Laboratory (PRL) in Fall 2023. Students will take a semester long course in statistics, econometrics, and data science to learn the tools necessary for policy and social science research. In parallel, the students will apply these tools to real-world data and answer crucial policy questions.

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Career Opportunity: Economist

Career Opportunity: Economist The Texas Public Policy Foundation is seeking a dynamic, free-market economist with exceptional research and verbal-and-written communication skills to serve as staff Economist. This team member will work with TPPF’s Chief Economist and colleagues to develop goals and a research agenda intended to improve the well-being of people in Texas and the […]

Call for Research Assistants – Policy Research Laboratory Fall 2023

Call for Research Assistants – Policy Research Laboratory Fall 2023 The Salem Center for Policy at McCombs is looking for outstanding, curious, and driven students to participate in the Policy Research Laboratory (PRL) in Fall 2023. Students will take a semester long course in statistics, econometrics, and data science to learn the tools necessary for […]
Courses

Courses sponsored by the Salem Center

Explore real-life issues and learn the skills to asses the tradeoffs of making choices.
Courses

I took the signature course from the Salem Center my very first semester at UT, and they helped me not only to discover interests I didn’t know I had, but also to see the world for more than what is shown on the surface. Everything has trade-offs, and I have been a better critical thinker since learning that.

Abby Sawyer, Sophomore

The Salem Center Reading Club

Curated readings to help students of all ages appreciate the difficulties of designing, enacting, and measuring policy interventions within complex systems.