YALE UNIVERSITY

ECONOMIC GROWTH CENTER

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Rockefeller Foundation

Purpose

The Rockefeller Foundation has funded a research and training program on the economics of the family at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University. The program uses the tools of micro-economics and household economics to study gender differences in low-income countries. In particular, the program will emphasize differences in wages and productivity, labor supply, time allocation, health, and schooling between men and women, and analyze the ways in which these differences are influenced by technical change, development policy, and the economic environment of families. The program includes funding for postdoctoral fellows whose research interests are in these areas. Applicants from fields other than economics, such as demography, sociology, and anthropology, will be considered provided they have a strong background in statistics and behavioral science. Several appointments may be made each year.

Structure of Fellowship

The fellowships are designed to be 24-month appointments of possibly three 8-month segments. During the first 8-month period, the fellow would be at Yale taking advanced courses, attending workshops and progressing on his/her research agenda. This period may be followed by 8 months in the fellow's home country (or country of study) for the purpose of collecting additional data. The final 8 months would be spent back at Yale completing empirical research, writing up results, and presenting workshops (adjustments to this structure necessitated by career or institutional commitments will be considered). While at Yale, fellows will be able to participate fully in all aspects of university life and will have access to research support equivalent to that of a faculty member at the Economic Growth Center.

Financial Support

The Fellowship provides an annual stipend of $30,000-$40,000 (depending upon experience) plus travel expenses and Yale Health Plan coverage. In addition, up to $10,000 will be available for specified research expenses that are justified by the program of research. This research support is intended primarily to support data collection during the second phase of the fellowship.

Application Procedure

The applicant should submit the following materials:

• A current curriculum vitae.
• A copy of research papers or publications (in English).
• A two-page statement of the proposed research program including a description of the data that are available for analysis during the first phase of work at Yale and the additional data that might be collected during the home-country phase of the fellowship.
• Two letters of reference from individuals who are familiar with the applicant's research program.
• Written permission from the applicant's current institution for the applicant to accept the fellowship as a leave of absence and assurance that the fellow can expect to return to his/her position at the end of the fellowship.
• Written assurance from the applicant that he/she will return to his/her current position at the end of the fellowship.

Application Materials or Requests for Additional information Should be Sent to:

Professor T. Paul Schultz
Economic Growth Center
Yale University
27 Hillhouse Avenue
P.O. Box 208269
New Haven, CT 06520-8269
FAX: (203) 432-5591
Tel: (203) 432-3620
email: Paul.Schultz@yale.edu

Yale Faculty Associated with the Economics of the Family Program:

Joseph Altonji, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Labor economics and econometrics; school choice, wage determination, economic links among relatives, family transfers and wealth gaps between socioeconomic groups.

Michael Boozer, International and Development Economics Program and the Economic Growth Center.
Labor economics and applied econometrics; education and wage differentials; determinants of school performance in terms of organization, pupil composition and family background.

Robert E. Evenson, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Agricultural economics; consequences of population growth and health gains in India; payoff to agricultural R & D and extension; household economic demography; women's time allocation; child health and development.

Timothy Guinnane, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Economic history; demographic change and development of Ireland; evolution of financial institutions; fertility decline in 19^th Century Germany.

Carolyn Moehling, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Economic history; child labor; family labor supply decisions; household production choices; determinants and effects of family structure.

Rohini Pande, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Development economics; political economy; gender economics.

T. Paul Schultz, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center; Program Director.
Economic demography and development; determinants of fertility, child mortality, birthweight, schooling and women's labor market behavior; health, education, and family planning program evaluation.

Jody L. Sindelar, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.
Health economics; value of time of women and men as determinant of health care utilization; intra-family distribution of health resources; consequences of alcohol use and mental health for productivity.

T.N. Srinivasan, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Population and food balances; land and labor markets in India; stochastic models of malnutrition; programs to reduce malnutrition and improve health and productivity in low-income countries; international trade and growth.

Chris Udry, Economics Department and the Economic Growth Center.
Role of markets and institutions that facilitate efficient exchange and allocate risk in economic development; studies of credit markets and gender separation of production in agricultural households in Africa.

Facilities of the Department of Economics

Yale's Department of Economics offers advanced level courses in fields ranging from economics of population, labor economics, agricultural economics, econometrics, to game theory. Weekly workshops cover topics in labor and population, trade and development, econometrics, economic history, and micro and macro theory. These educational opportunities are enriched by the department's close links to several organizations that support specialized research and training.

The Economic Growth Center's primary mission is to advance understanding, through both theoretical and empirical research, of the processes of economic development. Much of the Center's research is designed to be relevant to the policy formulation and decision making of national governments, international organizations, and other groups. The research interests of the faculty of the Center have a wide geographical coverage of all of the major developing regions of the world. The Economic Growth Center Library, housed in a special facility at the Social Science Library, is a unique collection focused on the statistical, economic and planning documents of developing countries, including government documents. The Social Science Data Archive is a collection of micro data files of surveys and censuses from all parts of the world.

The Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University fosters the development of theoretical, mathematical, and statistical tools and their application in economics and related social sciences. The Foundation sponsors a seminar series and maintains a library of materials related to its special areas of research activity.

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies was established to encourage research and training on social problems. Organized around the social sciences, ISPS also enlists other disciplines essential to policy studies including law, medicine, public health, engineering and environmental studies.

On the Web

The Department of Economics maintains a web site at: http://www.econ.yale.edu.

The Economic Growth Center web site is at: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter.

Information about the Economic Growth Center Discussion Papers Series can be found at: http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/research.html.
Full text versions for many of the recent discussion papers are available to be downloaded.