Here you will find a list of ongoing research collaborations open to new contributors. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in participating in any of the following projects.
Motivated Honours and MSc students are welcome to join these projects as research contributors — no prior research experience required, just reliability and curiosity. Typical involvement is a few hours per week on data work, literature reviews, or visualization. You will learn how research is actually produced, receive a reference that speaks to real work, and substantial contributions are credited (and can merit co-authorship). Email me at juan.zurita@ed.ac.uk with the project you are interested in and a sentence or two about your background. See also For Students.
Sectoral Wage Dynamics during Periods of Low and High Inflation (Open)
Type of Collaboration: Data cleaning, Data visualization, Literature review
The Heterogeneous Effects of Capital Requirements on Credit Supply (Open)
Type of Collaboration: Research analysis, Data visualization
Household Debt and Low Labour Productivity: Implications for Labour Supply (Open)
Type of Collaboration: Data analysis, Research analysis, Data visualization, Literature review
Shock Therapy and Wages: Sectoral Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in Argentina (Open)
Type of Collaboration: Research analysis, Literature review, Data work, Data visualization
For Firms & Institutions: Data Partnerships
I am also open to research partnerships with banks, fintechs, and policy institutions that hold proprietary data on lending, wages, or household finances. I have extensive experience working with large administrative and financial datasets — U.S. Call Reports, HMDA mortgage data, HILDA household panel data, and individual wage records — and can turn your data into rigorous, independent analysis of questions you care about: credit conditions, interest-rate exposure, household resilience, wage dynamics.
What you get: peer-review-quality analysis, co-branded or independently published research, and findings you can use internally. What I need: data access under an appropriate agreement and a genuine question. If this sounds interesting, email juan.zurita@ed.ac.uk — see also Consulting & Policy for commissioned work.