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Stone Center On Socio-Economic Inequality https://stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/
The Graduate Center, CUNY (New York, NY)

Vacancy-Postdoctoral Scholar (CUNY title: Research Associate), High-end wealth inequality

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Full-time, 2-year appointment, beginning fall 2021

Salary: $87,000/year plus allowance for research related expenditures

The Graduate Center Wealth Project is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Scholar to produce empirical research related to the top of the wealth distribution in the United States, cross-nationally, or both. The scholar will contribute to national and international conversations on economic inequality and on strategies to further fair, effective, and efficient policy and institutional reforms.

Applicants should have:
•Ph.D. degree in economics, statistics or related discipline. Degree may not be older than seven (7) years upon submission of the application.
•Degree in hand or thesis defense scheduled for prior to position start date.
•Existing research portfolio demonstrating empirical, methodological, or theoretical scholarship on socio-economic inequality.
•High level of technical skill, expertise in a range of quantitative methods, and experience with complex data sets.
•Excellent writing and communication skills.

Priority to those researching distribution of wealth; determinants and consequences of wealth accumulation; estate, inheritance, gift, and wealth taxation; intergroup wealth disparities (e.g., by gender, race, ethnicity, migration status).