NERA Summer Internship (Summer 2028 Grads) (Multiple Locations)
Posted Sep 22, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
NERA's work often ends up as expert testimony. Why does economic consulting for litigation and regulation interest you more than a typical finance or policy internship?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that the work supports experts in legal disputes, not just general business analysis.
Tell me about a time you worked with a messy dataset. What did you have to clean or fix before you could trust it?
What they are checking: Whether they check data before using it, since an error in a testifying expert's numbers can be attacked in court.
Tell me about a time you had several deadlines from different people at once. How did you decide what came first?
What they are checking: How they manage competing requests, since interns often support several case teams at the same time.
Describe a time you had to explain a technical or quantitative result in writing to someone outside your field.
What they are checking: Clear written communication, which NERA names as central to how its findings are valued.
What would you do
Imagine you find a mistake in a table that has already gone to the senior economist. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they raise errors quickly and honestly, which matters more at a firm whose value rests on unbiased findings.
If a manager hands you a task with an unclear goal and then goes into meetings all afternoon, how do you make progress?
What they are checking: Comfort with ambiguity and good judgment about when to proceed versus when to wait for direction.
A teammate's approach gives a result that helps the client, and yours does not. How do you handle that?
What they are checking: Whether they protect independence and objectivity even when the convenient answer points the other way.
About the work
Walk me through how you would run a simple regression to see whether a merger raised prices. What would you control for?
What they are checking: Basic econometric reasoning and awareness that omitted variables can make a result look causal when it is not.
What is the difference between correlation and causation, and how would you explain it to a lawyer who wants a yes-or-no answer?
What they are checking: Whether they can stay rigorous while translating economics for a non-economist audience under pressure.
Which tools have you used for data work, such as Stata, R, Python, SQL or Excel, and what is the most complex thing you have built with one?
What they are checking: Real hands-on depth with analysis tools rather than a list of software names on a resume.
How would you estimate the damages a company suffered if a supplier broke a contract for six months?
What they are checking: Whether they can structure a damages question around a but-for world and reasonable assumptions.
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