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Junior Research Scientist in the Division of Social Science

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NYU Abu Dhabi

                    Location
                    📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
                

                    Posted
                    📅 June 16, 2026
                

                    Work Type
                    ⏰ Full-time
                

Position Overview

Description
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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