Who are the professors ?
Program Director : Hillel Rapoport is Professor at PSE, and at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He held visiting positions at Stanford University (in 2001-03) and Harvard University (in 2009-11). Since 2008 he is the scientific coordinator of the “migration and development” conferences jointly organized by the French Development Agency and the World Bank. His research focuses on the links between migration and globalization and on the growth and developmental impact of migration. His other research interests include economic history, political economy, and the economics of immigration and diversity.
- Class taught during the program : Migration, Globalization and Development : Political Economy and Cultural Economics
- Webpage : https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/fr/rapoport-hillel/
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David McKenzie is a Lead Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. His main research areas are migration, firm growth, and methodological advances in using developing country data. He has evaluated migration programs between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand using both experimental and non-experimental methods, conducted experiments with financial education for Indonesian migrants, new products for Filipino migrants, and, most recently, worked on providing alternatives to irregular migration from The Gambia. He is a co-founder of and regular contributor to the Development Impact blog.
- Class taught during the program : Identifying the development impacts of migration
- Webpage : https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/d/david-mckenzie
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Katrin Millock is CNRS Research Fellow in Economics, Professor at PSE, Fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration (IC Migrations), and Co-Editor of the journal Environmental and Resource Economics. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research focuses on adaptation to climate change, particularly climate-induced migration.
- Class taught during the program : Migration and Climate Change
- Webpage : https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/fr/millock-katrin/
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Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and a Research Associate of the NBER. He is also the Founder and Director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center an interdisciplinary research group devoted to the study of international migrations. His research focuses on the impact of international migrations on labor markets and productivity of the receiving countries and on the determinants of international migrations.
- Class taught during the program : Assessing the causal effect of immigration : focus on methods and Immigration, Labor Markets, Productivity, Entrepreneurship and Firms
- Webpage : https://economics.ucdavis.edu/people/gperi/
Contents – Migration Economics