Laurent Gobillon

Research Fellow

Paris School of Economics

laurent.gobillon@psemail.eu

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Research Interests

Laurent Gobillon is CNRS senior researcher and Professor at PSE with Chaire. He is also affiliated to the French Institute of Demography (INED) and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is currently managing editor of the Regional Science and Urban Economics Journal, and associate editor of the Journal of Housing Economics and the Journal of Regional Science. His main fields of interest are: labour economics, urban economics, economic geography and housing. He is currently working on wage dynamics, urban land use in France over two centuries and spatial differences in real wage disparities.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2012.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14392

Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, Yanos Zylberberg

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, 103711

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10726

Differences in Positions along a Hierarchy: Counterfactuals Based on an Assignment Model

Laurent Gobillon, Dominique Meurs, Sébastien Roux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10476

Competition and Hospital Quality: Evidence from a French Natural Experiment

Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10373

The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (10), 2766–281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9517

Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows

Laurent Gobillon, Matthieu Solignac

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20(2), 355-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8508

The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, volume 5A, Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson and Will Strange (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 247-348

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7493

Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Laurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 535-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7448

Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Laurent Gobillon, Peter Rupert, Etienne Wasmer

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 108-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7082

Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures

Laurent Gobillon, Carine Milcent

published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 161-186