Ph.D. position in Economics

Job description

IESEG School of Management and the LEM (UMR 9221), a research unit of the University of Lille, invites applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position in Economics , with an emphasis on Economic History, Family Economics, and Economic Growth using historical data. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: We invite applications for a funded PhD position in Economics on the project “Access to Healthcare, Human Capital and Economic Growth in France”. The dissertation will be conducted at the intersection of economic history, health economics, and development economics, with a particular focus on how inequalities in access to medical services shaped demographic behaviour, human capital accumulation, and regional economic trajectories during France’s transition to modern economic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While historians and economists have documented improvements in health and living standards over this period, we still lack a systematic analysis of how local access to healthcare influenced individual life courses and long-run development. The PhD candidate will be closely integrated into the broader research agenda of the ANR project “Families, Migration and Long-run Ec...