John Giles is a Lead 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 Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6088
John T. Giles, Dewen Wang, Wei Cai
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2344
published as 'Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?' in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1281-1309
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2333
published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (2), 265 - 288
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2326
Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 52(1) (Winter 2017): 274-313. A substantially revised May 2015 version is available here: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2015/12/01/090224b08389b0c1/2_0/Rendered/PDF/Migrant0opport0youth0in0rural0China.pdf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2078
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (2), 266-277
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