Junior Research Scientist in the Division of Social Science (CITIES) - Dr. Etienne Wasmer

Location

New York University Abu Dhabi – Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES)

Open Date

May 22, 2026

Description

The Center for Interacting Urban Networks, New York University Abu Dhabi, seeks to recruit a Junior Research Scientist 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.

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