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🥝 Junior Research Scientist in the Division of Social Science

NYU Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Posted June 27, 2026

Junior Research Scientist in the Division of Social Science

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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.


    The qualified candidate will have an MSc or an MA in economics or another quantitative field with no more than five years from receipt of the de...

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