Post-doctoral fellow in development economics and economic history

Offer Description

The Centre of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED) at the economics department of the University of Namur invites applications for a post-doctoral position as part of the project Colonial policies and population in the DRC. The contract is for 12 months, renewable once.

This project seeks to i) build high-quality demographic and economic micro-level databases for the period 1950-1984 in Congo/Zaire; ii) document trends and geographic disparities in demographic and economic outcomes, with a focus on gender; iii) investigate long-term impacts of specific colonial policies.

The post-doctoral fellow will contribute to the three objectives. S/he will be in charge of supervising an important digitization effort. An experience in working with historical and archival data and/or with large-scale census micro-data is valued.

The CRED is devoted to studying problems of economic development, particularly issues of micro-instit...