11 May 2026

CEMFI invites applications for a 1-year full-time Research Assistant position (Pre-doc). The work will support the project “Intergenerational mobility and cultural norms: implications for gender and labor market inequality,” led by Associate Professor Tom Zohar and Assistant Professor Giulia Buccione. The project studies how labor market frictions, fertility decisions, and cultural norms shape inequality across generations and between genders. Specific lines of work include: (i) the relationship between firm quality and worker separations, and how wage rigidity contributes to labor market inequality; (ii) the heterogeneity of the child penalty on women’s careers and how interventions such as childcare expansion and access to contraception can reduce gender disparities; and (iii) randomized and survey-based evaluations of how restrictive cultural norms in the Middle East and North Africa shape women’s employment and health choices. The position will be financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Universities research project entitled “Income Dynamics, Employment Dynamics, Fertility Decisions, and Cultural Norms: Implications for Gender Inequality and the Labor Market” (MCIU PID2024-158202NB-I00), and by the Grant entitled “Economic and Social Effects of Climate and Energy Policies (PHS-2024/PH-HUM-126 CLIMAD-CM) funded by Comunidad de Madrid, whose Principal Investigators are Associate Professor Tom Zohar and Assistant Professor Giulia Buccione.

The application deadline is 31 May 2026. For more information and to apply, click here.