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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Population and Health Economics
Qualified applicants are sought for two year post-doctoral fellowships in Population Economics. The successful post-doctoral fellows will continue his/her training through a two-year fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. They will work directly on projects with faculty members and will also be expected to develop their own research. Fellows usually undertake some field work in developing countries.
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Applicants should submit complete applications to:
kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu
Kay Fabella
Population Economics Program
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Past Award Recipients
2007
Isabel Günther and Sebastian Linnemayr were chosen from more than 80 candidates for the position of Post-Doctoral Research Fellow.
2006
Günther Fink and Jocelyn Finlay were chosen out of a pool of over 50 candidates to
the position of Post-Doctoral Fellow to conduct research partially funded by PGDA and a grant from the Hewlett Foundation. During their two-year fellowship, Fink and Finlay worked closely with David Canning and David Bloom to research the impact of reproductive health and population dynamics on economic development and on research related to the demographic and economic impact of HIV/AIDS.
Günther Fink completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan. He has worked on a wide range of policy issues, and dedicated his dissertation to explaining the cross-national differences in government expenditure on social security and public education. The main focus of his current research lies in determining the relationship between family background and both fertility and educational choices on one side, and aggregate human capital and economic growth on the other.
Jocelyn Finlay was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the Australian National University in 2006. In her Ph.D. thesis she focused on the theoretical relationship between life expectancy and economic growth, and in doing so explored the dynamic interplay between health and education investment decisions. Jocelyn's research interest in demography and economic development continues and in her current empirical work she is analyzing the role of population health in economic development.
2005
Kirsten
P. Smith was welcomed as the first Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Program on
the Global Demography of Aging. Selected from a highly competitive
pool, Kirsten joined PGDA in September 2005. During her
one-year fellowship, Kirsten learned about relevant social science,
public health, and medical literatures relating to the global demography
of aging by attending courses throughout Harvard. She worked directly
with PGDA executive committee, Professor Nicholas Christakis of the Harvard Medical School.
Kirsten Smith received her Ph.D. in sociology
and demography in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania. Her
primary field of interest is health disparities. Her dissertation
explores explanations for high sexually transmitted infection (STI)
rates in the United States, incorporating both within-country and
between-country analysis.
Consistent with her interest in STIs, she has also published papers
on social aspects of HIV/AIDS in Malawi, a subject that she continued to investigate as a Global Aging Scholar. She also explored socioeconomic differentials in mortality, which she studied in both a domestic and cross-national perspective. In addition,
she worked on a project on the use of data from the Framingham Heart
Study to analyze network effects on obesity-related health behaviors.
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