JOE Listings (Job Openings for Economists)

August 1, 2016 - January 31, 2017

Yale University

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Faculty of Arts and Sciences
MacMillan Center
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Refugee Migration in Bangladesh

JOE ID Number: 2016-02_111457362
Date Posted: 12/19/2016
Date Inactive: 01/31/2017
Position Title/Short Description
Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Refugee Migration in Bangladesh
Section: US: Other Academic (Visiting or Temporary)
Location: New Haven, Connecticut, UNITED STATES
JEL Classifications:
D -- Microeconomics
F -- International Economics
O -- Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth
Keywords:
Development Economics
Microeconomics
Econometrics
Full Text of JOE Listing:

Yale University seeks to appoint a Post-Doctoral Associate to conduct research and fieldwork in development economics and applied microeconomics in 2017-18.The Post-Doctoral Associate will collaborate as co-principal investigator with Yale University Professor of Economics Mushfiq Mobarak, as well as with other scholars doing empirical research at Yale and other top-tier academic institutions.

This fellowship will be based at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut and will focus on setting up a data collection site at the Bangladesh/Myanmar border, focused on the Rohingya refugee community. The data collection site is a core project of the Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses, at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. The fellow will be housed at the MacMillan Center. The fellow will also teach one course on this topic at Yale.

Required qualifications for this position include a Ph.D. in economics, public policy, or another quantitative social science discipline, a strong technical understanding of economics and econometrics, Knowledge of data management, econometrics, and use of STATA or other data analysis software, and strong communication skills with fluency in English.

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Application deadline: 01/31/2017
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