Thirteen (13) Early Stage Researcher & Experienced Researcher Fellowships in Development Economics, PODER Network, Europe & South Africa (2016)

PODER aims to provide a new generation of European doctoral students with training in the latest techniques for the design and evaluation of innovative and effective policies to fight poverty.

The training combines coursework and methodological tools taught at the academic nodes with on-site training in project management and data collection learnt from private sector partners, international organizations and NGOs.

Applications are invited for Early Stage Researcher (ESR) and Experienced Researcher (ER) Fellowships funded as part of Marie Curie Initial Training Networks, under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme. The project has been running from 1 September 2013 and will end on 31 August 2017.

The fellowships will sponsor young researchers at one of seven participating institutions:

Bocconi University (Italy)
Paris School of Economics (France)
Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix à Namur (Belgium)
London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
Stockholm University (Sweden)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
University of Cape Town (South Africa)

The research will focus on the following topics:

WP1 Human Resources (Health, education policy and inequality)

WP2 Firms and productivity (private sector development)

WP3 The public sector (Governance, political economy and institutions)

Appointed candidates will be expected to carry out research on one or more of these topics and collaborate with local faculty.

CURRENT PROJECTS AVAILABLE (from January 2016 on)

Bocconi University:
-Gender and intra-household allocation
-The role of the media in developing countries

Paris School of Economics:
-The Industrial Organization of the Aid Sector: NGOs, Donors and Recipients
-Evaluation of agricultural preferential trade agreements and export promotion schemes
-Constraints to agricultural technology adoption

Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix à Namur
-Informal Institutions and Identity Groups in Developing Economies

London School of Economics:
-Promoting basic entrepreneurship among the ultra-poor

Stockholm University:
-Public service provision: Education
-Corruption: Impact and Reforms

Universitat Pompeu Fabra:
-Health related decision making and infectious diseases in developing countries
- The importance of incentives in the private and public health sector in developing countries.

University of Cape Town:
-Schooling to work transitions in Africa

Research Fields
Economics - Economics of development

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu