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John Giles is Senior Labor Economist in the Development Research Group (Human Development and Public Services Team) at the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Prior to joining the World Bank in May 2007, he spent two years as an Academy Scholar at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and six years at Michigan State, where he was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor just before joining the World Bank. His current research interests include: the movement of labor from agricultural to non-agricultural employment, internal migration and its impacts on households and communities, poverty traps, household risk-coping and risk-management behavior, population aging and retirement decisions in developing countries, and women's labor supply decisions in developing countries.
John has published papers in Economic Development and Cultural Change, The Economic Journal, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics and World Development, among others. He earned his PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 1999.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2006. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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John T. Giles
Irina Murtazashvili
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
(forthcoming as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013,) |
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Alan de Brauw
John T. Giles
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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
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Jian Zhang
John T. Giles
Scott Rozelle
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Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
(Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356) |
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John T. Giles
Dewen Wang
Wei Cai
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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
(published in: M. Majmundar and J. Smith (eds.), Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives, Washington, DC,The National Academies Press, 2012) |
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Dwayne Benjamin
Loren Brandt
John T. Giles
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
(published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309) |
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John T. Giles
Ren Mu
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China
(published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (2), 265 - 288) |
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Alan de Brauw
John T. Giles
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Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China
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Jean-Yves Duclos
Abdelkrim Araar
John T. Giles
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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (2), 266-277) |
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