Forschungsinteressen
Hillel Rapoport is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A member of Bar-Ilan University’s Economic Department until 2013, he also 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. He received the Milken Institute Award in 2003 and the Developing Countries Prize in 2008. His research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration. As part of this research program he has done theoretical and empirical work on the brain drain, remittances, the effect of migration on inequality and educational attainments, and the links between migration and other dimensions of globalization such as trade, capital flows, and culture. His other research interests include economic history, political economy, refugee resettlement/relocation, and the economics of immigration and diversity.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2013.
IZA-Publikationen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18192
Etienne Bacher, Michel Beine, Hillel Rapoport
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18041
forthcoming at: The Economic Journal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17754
published in: Economic Policy, 2025, 40 (122), 551–573.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17711
Leah Platt Boustan, Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Ran Abramitzky, Elisa Jácome, Alan Manning, Santiago Perez, Analysia Watley, Adrian Adermon, Jaime Arellano-Bover, Olof Aslund, Marie Connolly, Nathan Deutscher, Anne C. Gielen, Yvonne Giesing, Yajna Govind, Martin Halla, Dominik Hangartner, Yuyan Jiang, Cecilia Karmel, Fanny Landaud, Lindsey Macmillan, Isabel Z. Martínez, Alberto Polo, Panu Poutvaara, Hillel Rapoport, Sara Roman, Kjell G. Salvanes, Shmuel San, Michael Siegenthaler, Louis Sirugue, Javier Soria Espín, Jan Stuhler, Giovanni L. Violante, Dinand Webbink, Andrea Weber, Jonathan Zhang, Angela Zhang, Tom Zohar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16789
Thierry Mayer, Hillel Rapoport, Camilo Umana-Dajud
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 93–126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15722
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103443
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14772
Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Arthur Silve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13755
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1365-1403. .
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13078
published as 'Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence' in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (8), 103991
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12994
published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12412
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 2, 287-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12382
published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12130
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (6), 925–954,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12048
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (2), 385-404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11778
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11610
published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66(3), 564-601
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11331
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 265-296.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10109
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1209-1226
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9945
published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9788
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F273-305
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9418
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8683
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8329
Andrew Mountford, Hillel Rapoport
published in: World Economy, 2016, 39 (4), 543-556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7980
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7749
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117 (2), 565-591
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7568
Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7548
Maurice Kugler, Oren Levintal, Hillel Rapoport
Published in: World Bank Economic Review, 32, 1, 2018: 148–162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6104
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 817-28
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5765
Published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 94-108
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5590
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (3), 681-730
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5496
revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4534
Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 132 - 156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4293
published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 143 - 166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2873
published in: J. Baghwati and G. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies, Oxford University Press, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1531
published in: S. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity Vol. 2, North Holland 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 819
new version entitled "Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries: winners and losers" published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (528), 515-843
IZA Discussion Paper No. 808
new version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (2), 187-200
IZA Discussion Paper No. 483
published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 284
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003, 52 (1), 27-45
