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Postdoctoral fellow in Economic History (Lund University) – deadline 5 June 2023
The Department of Economic History of Lund University is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in the research program ‘The legacy of a settler colony: Quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the Cape Colony’. The program is funded by the The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and will run to the end of 2026. It currently employs 13 researchers based in Sweden, South Africa, The Netherlands, and USA and 5 research assistants based in South Africa.
Associate professor Erik Green leads the program. The main objective of the research project is to to contribute to the large literature on colonialism and global inequality by – for the first time – using big data and machine learning techniques to analyze the roots and gradual development of a settler economy – the Cape Colony – its institutions and their impact on growth, inequality, and welfare over time and space. To capture these gradual processes the program is constructing the most comprehensive panel database for the global south – The Cape of Good Hope Panel database. The database provides us with economic and demographic micro-level panel data for almost the entire settler population in the Cape Colony for almost 200 years (c. 1660-1840).
The Postdoctoral fellow will work closely with a supervision team and is expected to create data linkage strategies and link the various sources in the Cape of Good Hope Panel Project. Also expected are research papers broadly related to themes such as economic development, living standards, and inequality.
Applications are due by 7 June 2023.