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The ifo Institute is inviting applications for four Postdoctoral Research positions, each with a six-year contract, based in Munich, Germany.

We are seeking candidates who are deeply committed to conducting high-quality, policy-relevant research, with a strong motivation to advance their own research agenda and willingness to engage with the public and the media. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the following fields:

Economics of Education: Researchers using microeconometric methods to examine the effects of education on individual and societal outcomes, as well as the determinants and governance of education.

Labor Economics: Researchers applying empirical methods to topics such as family, gender, immigration, and crime.

Public Economics and Political Economy: Researchers in the field of public economics and political economy, working on current societal challenges with applied econometric methods.

Big Data Economics: Researchers in any field of economics who leverage state-of-the-art machine learning and causal inference methods to innovative datasets, such as large-scale data, text as data, or satellite imagery.

The ifo Institute is also offering one Postdoctoral Research position at the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics, located in Fürth, Germany. These position has an initial contract duration of two years, with the possibility of extension for up to additional four years. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in:

Public and Behavioral Economics: Researchers who employ experimental methods (lab, field, survey) or applied microeconometrics to explore topics in public and behavioral economics.

The ifo Institute is one of Europe’s leading economic research institutes. Research at ifo combines academic excellence with economic policy relevance. Our faculty and postdoctoral researchers publish their work in high-impact journals and use their findings to bring scientific perspectives into policy debates. The scope of our research is broad, covering most fields in economics. Please check out our research activities in-depth on the following webpage: https://www.ifo.de/en/research/ifo-centers.

We promote outstanding research by providing generous administrative and research support, an exceptional data infrastructure, and tailored training and development programs. Our international CESifo research network offers ample opportunities for scientific exchange with top-class scholars. Guest researchers regularly visit the Institute. Thanks to our close cooperation with the University of Munich (LMU), our postdoctoral researchers are integrated into the junior faculty of the Department of Economics at LMU.

Candidates should hold a PhD in economics or be about to defend a PhD soon. Interested candidates should submit their application via EJM - Econ Job Market. Applications should include a cover letter, CV, job market paper, and at least three reference letters.

The deadline for submitting applications is November 24, 2024. We will conduct virtual interviews as part of the 2024-2025 European Job Market between Monday, 16 December and Thursday, 19 December 2024. Fly-outs will start on Monday, 13 January 2025.

Please feel free to contact jobmarket@ifo.de if you have any questions. For further information on careers at the ifo Institute, please visit https://www.ifo.de/en/about-us/ifo-careers.