Maarten van Ham

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Delft University of Technology

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Maarten van Ham is a Professor of Urban Geography at the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He studied Economic Geography at Utrecht University, where he received his MSc in 1998 and his PhD in 2002. Maarten was a visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (2001 and 2003) and worked at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam before moving to the University of St Andrews in 2006. In St Andrews Maarten was director of research of the Centre for Housing Research (CHR). In 2011 Maarten moved to Delft University of Technology where he has a full chair position.

His research interests can be broadly defined as the causes and consequences of family migration: why do people move residence and what are the consequences of moving for the housing, household and labour career? Initially his research focused on the links between residential location, migration and occupational achievement, including overeducation. In recent years his interests have broadened to include: selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods; neighbourhood effects (see: www.neighbourhoodeffects.org); migration and home ownership in Europe; mixed-ethnic unions; and international marriage migration. He currently works on projects in the UK, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and the Netherlands. Maarten published in international journals such as Environment and Planning A; Urban Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Housing Studies; Demography; Demographic Research; Regional Studies; Population, Space and Place; Applied Economics Quarterly; Journal of Urban Economics. In 2014 Maarten has won an ERC grant. See: www.deprivedhoods.eu


He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15153
Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Tiit Tammaru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14587
Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Child-Parent Conflict among a Longitudinal Sample of Dutch Adolescents
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Matt Best, Matt Vogel, Maarten van Ham, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12578
Working from Home and Commuting: Heterogeneity over Time, Space, and Occupations
Duco de Vos, Maarten van Ham, Evert J. Meijers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12396
Neighbourhood and School Poverty Simultaneously Predicting Educational Achievement, Taking into Account Timing and Duration of Exposure
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11883
Inequality, Reordering and Divergent Growth: Processes of Neighbourhood Change in Dutch Cities
Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11416
Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects
Ana Petrović, David Manley, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11397
The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence
Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11335
Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11219
The Roles of Increasing Inequality and Divergent Urban Development in Understanding Spatial Polarization in Tel-Aviv
Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11218
Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context
Lina Hedman, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11178
Sorting out Neighbourhood Effects Using Sibling Data
Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11123
Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman, David Manley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11076
Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland
Maria Vaalavuo, Maarten van Ham, Timo M. Kauppinen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10999
Educational Attainment and Neighbourhood Outcomes: Differences between Highly-Educated Natives and Non-Western Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10980
Inequalities and Segregation across the Long-Term Economic Cycle: An Analysis of South and North European Cities
Tiit Tammaru, Szymon Marcińczak, Raivo Aunap, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10944
Ethnic Differences in Duration and Timing of Exposure to Neighbourhood Disadvantage during Childhood
Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10875
Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute
Duco de Vos, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10697
The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods: Selective Migration and Upgrading
Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10696
The Temporal Stability of Children's Neighborhood Experiences: A Follow-up from Birth to Age 15
Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10695
Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach
Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10694
Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income
Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman, Matt Vogel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10693
The City as a Self-Help Book: The Psychology of Urban Promises
Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Evert J. Meijers, Maarten van Ham, Martijn J. Burger, Duco de Vos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10526
Parents and Peers: Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes over Time
Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10515
Ambivalence in Place Attachment: The Lived Experiences of Residents in Declining Neighbourhoods Facing Demolition in Shenyang, China
Xin Li, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10277
Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities
Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru, Elise de Vuijst, Merle Zwiers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10276
A Life Course Approach to Understanding Neighbourhood Effects
Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10232
Understanding the Effects of Homeownership and Regional Unemployment Levels on Migration during the Economic Crisis in Spain
Isabel Palomares-Linares, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10220
Being Poorer than the Rest of the Neighbourhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behaviour of Youth
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Maarten van Ham, Rongqin Yu, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus, Pieter Hooimeijer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10216
Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity
Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, David Manley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10160
Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10146
EthniCity of Leisure: A Domains Approach to Ethnic Integration During Free Time Activities
Kristiina Kamenik, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10141
Neoliberalization and the Changing Roles of Stakeholders in State-Led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China
Xin Li, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10140
Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees During Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring
Xin Li, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9793
Disentangling Neighborhood Effects in Person-Context Research: An Application of a Neighborhood-Based Group Decomposition
Matt Vogel, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9663
New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation over Time and Space: A Domains Approach
Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9625
The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands
Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
published in: [International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business].
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9603
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich
Sako Musterd, Szymon Marcińczak, Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9602
Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Kadi Mägi, Kadri Leetmaa, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham
published as: 'Types of spatial mobility and change in people's ethnic residential contexts' in: Demographic Research, 2016, 34, 1161-1192
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9557
The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality
Elise de Vuijst, Maarten van Ham, Reinout Kleinhans
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9111
Mandatory Volunteer Work as Fair Reciprocity for Unemployment and Social Benefits?
Lex Veldboer, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8932
Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants
Tiit Tammaru, Magnus Strömgren, Maarten van Ham, Alexander M. Danzer
published as 'Relations between residential and workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrant men and women' in: Cities, 2016, 59, 131-138
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8882
Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands
Merle Zwiers, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8777
Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
published as: "The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States". published in: [ Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy], 2015, 9(3), 253-276.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8749
Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis
Merle Zwiers, Gideon Bolt, Maarten van Ham, Ronald van Kempen
published online in: [Urban Geography], 22 Jan 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8660
Ageing in a Long-term Regeneration Neighbourhood: A Disruptive Experience or Successful Ageing in Place?
Reinout Kleinhans, Lex Veldboer, Sylvia Jansen, Maarten van Ham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8461
Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood
Sanne Boschman, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
published in: [Housing and the Built Environment], 2016.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8026
Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham, Donatas Burneika
published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7815
Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in 'Neighbourhood Effects'
Maarten van Ham, David Manley
published in: [Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7526
Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model
Sanne Boschman, Maarten van Ham
published as 'Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Effects Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model' in: Environment and Planning A, 2015, 47(5), 1155-1174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7525
New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space
Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay
published in: [Progress in Human Geography], 2015.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7510
Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences
Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Pieter Hooimeijer, Maarten van Ham, Wim Meeus
published in: [Urban Studies], 2016.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7168
Lessons Learned from the Largest Tenure Mix Operation in the World: Right to Buy in the United Kingdom
Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
published in: [Cityscape], 2013, 15 (2), 101-117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7012
Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Rūta Ubarevičienė, Donatas Burneika, Maarten van Ham
published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, 46 (2), 217 - 242
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6794
Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects
Lina Hedman, David Manley, Maarten van Ham, John Östh
published as 'Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects' in: [Journal of Economic Geography], 2015, 15(1), 195-215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6793
Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research
Maarten van Ham, David Manley
published in: [Environment and Planning A], 2012, 44 (12), 2787-2793
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6572
Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories
Maarten van Ham, Lina Hedman, David Manley, Rory Coulter, John Östh
published as 'Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty. An analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals' in: [Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers], 2014, 39, 402-417
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6394
A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales
Zhiqiang Feng, Maarten van Ham, Paul Boyle, Gillian M. Raab
published as: 'A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales' in: [Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies], 2014, 40 (3), 384-403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6372
Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
Maarten van Ham, David Manley
published in: Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong (eds.), Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes, The Policy Press, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6146
Contextualised Mobility Histories of Moving Desires and Actual Moving Behaviour
Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham
published as: 'Following People Through Time: An Analysis of Individual Residential Mobility Biographies' in: Housing Studies, 2013, 28(7), 1037-1055
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6140
Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
Beata Nowok, Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, Vernon Gayle
published in: [Environment and Planning A], 2013, 45 (4), 986-1002
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6062
Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Darja Reuschke, Maarten van Ham
published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5861
Socio-Spatial Mobility in British Society
William A.V. Clark, Maarten van Ham, Rory Coulter
published as 'Spatial mobility and social outcomes' in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2014, 29 (4), 699-727
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5634
Social Mixing as a Cure for Negative Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence Based Policy or Urban Myth?
David Manley, Maarten van Ham, Joe Doherty
published in: Bridge, G., Butler, T. & Lees, L. (eds.), Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5628
The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK
Peteke Feijten, Maarten van Ham
published as 'The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK' in: [Comparative Population Studies], 2013, 38 (2), 405-432
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5622
Pre-Hire Factors and Workplace Ethnic Segregation
Magnus Strömgren, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Szymon Marcinczak, Olof Stjernström, Urban Lindgren
published as 'Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants' in: [Demography], 2014, 51(2), 645-671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5617
Ethnic Dimensions of Suburbanisation in Estonia
Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham, Kadri Leetmaa, Anneli Kährik
revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2013, 39 (5), 845-862
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5612
Partner (Dis)agreement on Moving Desires and the Subsequent Moving Behaviour of Couples
Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham, Peteke Feijten
published as 'Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples' in: [Population, Space and Place], 2012, 18 (1), 16-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5277
A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour
Rory Coulter, Maarten van Ham, Peteke Feijten
published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (11), 2742-2760
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5271
Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes
David Manley, Maarten van Ham
published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 7), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 147-173
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5238
Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Lina Bergström, Maarten van Ham, David Manley
published in: [Environment and Planning A], 2011, 43 (6) 2, 1381-1399
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5193
Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
Lina Bergström, Maarten van Ham
published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 4), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 79-99
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5115
Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
Maarten van Ham, Lee Williamson, Peteke Feijten, Paul Boyle
published in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2013, 28 (1), 129-146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4797
Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?
Maarten van Ham, Allan M. Findlay, David Manley, Peteke Feijten
published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4094
The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective
Maarten van Ham, David Manley
published as 'The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (2), 257 - 282
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1220
Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel
published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 363 - 378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1034
Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
Maarten van Ham, Felix Büchel
published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12
IZA Discussion Paper No. 424
Overeducation, Regional Labour Markets and Spatial Flexibility
Felix Büchel, Maarten van Ham
published in: [Journal of Urban Economics], 2003, 53 (3), 482-493
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