Nov 27, 2006

Graduate Scholarships in Empirical Microeconomics - Intitute for Fiscal Studies

Graduate Scholarships Research in Empirical Microeconomics
ESRC Centre for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, Department of Economics
Institute for Fiscal Studies

The IFS runs an annual Graduate Scholarship Programme which finances one or more students for three years to undertake research leading to a degree of Ph.D. The scholarship is payable at the ESRC rate, currently £14,300pa. and fees will be paid.

IFS Scholars will register as full-time students at the Department of Economics, University College London and will have access to the extensive research facilities of IFS and UCL. At IFS they will be associated with the ESRC Centre for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. IFS has established an international reputation in Microeconometrics and Empirical Microeconomics research and its relation to policy issues and your research should be relevant to these areas.

This year one of the Scholars will be expected to work in the field of Development Economics and will be affiliated with the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo). One Scholar will be located in the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), a leading international centre for development of econometric methods and from 2007 a Research Centre of the ESRC.

Please send a CV and a brief outline of your proposed research (no more than three pages) *to arrive no later than Friday 26 January 2007.*

*IFS, 7 Ridgmount St.
LONDON WC1E 7AE*
*020 7291-4800 or e-mail **mailbox@ifs. org.uk*

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