The Department of Economics is inviting students to apply for a full-time scholarship for doctoral research on young people’s career and life expectations.

Young people’s choices have a dramatic impact on their life-time outcomes. This project aims to better understand what shapes young people’s subjective expectations. The project is based on an analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a large study of individuals born around 2000, and will assess how childhood conditions (parental or family characteristics, location, school) and shocks to these conditions impact on teenagers’ expectations.

The project is empirically focused, so while knowledge of labour economics would be useful, data management skills and high level of competence in econometrics are required. Experience with managing large national level survey data and expertise in statistical softwares (Stata or R) is desirable, but training will be provided to reach proficiency. Most of all, the successful candidate will have a great enthusiasm for research and be passionate about understanding young people’s decision-making.

The successful candidate will be encouraged to define their own PhD topic within the broad remit of this research agenda.

Please submit a letter of interest, a CV, transcripts of your Undergraduate and Masters degrees and a proposal (up to 2,000 words) setting out how you would develop the envisaged research project. 

These materials will need to be submitted directly to Professor Arnaud Chevalier Arnaud.Chevalier@rhul.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is Friday 7th January 2022.  Interviews are expected to take place later that month.

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