PhD scholarship in Economics and/or Psychology: Impatience and the Formation of Political Attitudes and Beliefs
Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Economics and/or Department of Psychology. The chosen candidate will likely enrol and have principal supervisor at one department and a co-supervisor at the other. The project is part of the project “HHPOLITICS: A Household Finance Theory of Political Attitudes and Political Behavior”.
Employment is scheduled to begin on 1 February 2016, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Deadline for applications is 17 December 2015.
HHPOLITICS is a research project financed by the European Research Council (ERC) under its Starting Grant-program. Two key parts of the project involve experimental investigations of paternalism and the health scientific and psychological basis for impatience, and the formation of political preferences towards paternalism.
The scholarship is part of a research project in empirical and theoretical behavioural political economics. The work involves combining quantitative data from Danish administrative registers with survey data and health register data in a longitudinal sample.
Qualifications
Applicants from economics should have some knowledge of social psychology or personality psychology; applicants from psychology should have some knowledge of economic experiments and econometrics.
The scholarship is a 5+3 programme position.
In order to be eligible for a scholarship in the 5+3 PhD study programme the applicant must have completed a MSc degree successfully before starting his or her employment. PhD students are paid salary according to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The PhD student has a work obligation of up to 840 hours over the 3 year period of time without additional pay. The work obligation can include for instance teaching.
Information
Further information about the PhD study programme is available on the website of Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences:
In English: http://samf.ku.dk/phd-skolen/english
In Danish http://samf.ku.dk/phd-skolen/
Under "Legal basis" on the website you will find information about the rules and guidelines for the PhD programme and the Danish Ministerial Order on the PhD Programme at the Universities.
Further information about the scholarships can also be obtained from Professor David Dreyer Lassen, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK1353 Copenhagen K, email: david.dreyer.lassen@econ.ku.dk, telephone: + 45 3532 4412.
- The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding society, and invites all qualified applicants regardless of personal background to apply for the position.
- In order to be awarded a PhD scholarship the applicant has to enrol as a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, cf. the rules of the Danish Ministerial order No 1039 of 27 August 2013.
- An assessment committee will evaluate the applications. The applicants will be notified of the composition of the committee. When the assessment committee has finished the evaluation, each applicant will receive the part of the evaluation that concerns her or him.
Application
The application must be submitted electronically no later than 17 December 2015.
Further information about the required enclosures for the application is available on the website of Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences.
This advertisement is also available on the website of Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Science (see link under Information), and on the job portal of the University of Copenhagen http://employment.ku.dk/ (in English) http://jobportal.ku.dk/ (in Danish)
Please note: Applications received after deadline, or received by regular mail or email, will not be taken into account.
