Auburn University and TERI University are offering a PhD research assistantship to a student specializing in environmental or public economics, or a closely related social science or interdisciplinary field that combines economic and social analyses of water or wastewater issues in India. The student should have a strong record of undergraduate studies and some experience at the graduate level, preferably holding a MA or MS degree in economics, environmental science or sociology. The student should have skills in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis and be interested in strengthening those skills through field research. Considerable field research is involved with this assistantship. Funding will include tuition fees at Auburn University and living stipend for two years of PhD program work. Fluency in Hindi and English and strong GRE scores are required. Please send a letter of interest and resume/CV along with at least one independent research paper to this email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Deadline for submission is November 30, 2016 with interviews to follow in early December 2016. For additional information on the project for this assistantship see:

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For additional information on AuburnUniversity see www.auburn.edu
and for TERI University see www.teriuniversity.ac.in/