Post-Doctoral Associate in the Division of Social Science (CITIES) - Dr. Etienne Wasmer

The Center for Interacting Urban Networks, New York University Abu Dhabi, seeks to recruit a Post-Doctoral Associate to support the project LANDMark on research on land economics, in any of the following areas:


+ Measurement of land prices, with a focus on imputation techniques

+ Land value determinants: public infrastructures (transport, health, and education services)

+ Macroeconomic stability and instability in the presence of land as a fixed, non-produced asset

+ Taxation of land wealth as an alternative to the consumption tax and the capital tax

+ The political economy of land and its taxation

+ Land, fixed resources, and political conflict


The successful applicant will contribute to the research centered on any of these themes.

The qualified candidate will have a Ph.D. in economics or another quantitative field with no more than five years from receipt of the degree, and an appetite for work...