Maarten van Ham

Research Fellow

Delft University of Technology

m.vanham@tudelft.nl

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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

published in: Cities, 2023, 136, 104258

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

published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2020, 44 (6), 1103 - 1123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11397

The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence

Tom Kleinepier, Maarten van Ham

published in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2018, 47 (8), 1611–1628.

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

published as 'Inherited and Spatial Disadvantages: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adult Neighborhood Careers of Siblings' in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020, 110 (6), 1670-1689

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

published as 'Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work' in: PLoS One, 2019, 14 (5), e0217635

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

published in: Urban Studies, 2020, 57 (1), 176 - 197

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

published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (4), 538 - 551

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

published as 'Ethnic differences in timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood disadvantage during childhood' in: Advances in Life Course Research, 2018, 36, 92 - 104

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

published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2018, 61, 375 - 398

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

published in: Urban Studies, 2019, 56 (8), 1647 - 1663

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

published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 36, 1813 - 1826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10695

Structural and Exchange Components in Processes of Neighbourhood Change: A Social Mobility Approach

Tal Modai-Snir, Maarten van Ham

published in: Applied spatial analysis and policy, 2019, 12 (2), 423 - 443

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10694

Incorporating Neighbourhood Choice in a Model of Neighbourhood Effects on Income

Maarten van Ham, Sanne Boschman, Matt Vogel

published in: Demography, 2018, 55, 1069 - 1090

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

published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 15–28

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

published in: Regional Studies, 2020, 54, 515 - 526

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

published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, 24 (2), e2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10160

Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Maarten van Ham

published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2017, 4 (1), 57 - 79

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

published in: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2019, 110 (3), 289 - 302

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

published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (7), 953-962

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, 2017, 31 (4), 570-589

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

published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083

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' 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 in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (5), 665 - 584

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, 2017, 32, 495 - 512.

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, 2015, 8, 309 - 324

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 as 'Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space' in: Progress in Human Geography, 2016, 40 (3), 352-374

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, 2017, 54 (10), 2285-2304

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, 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), 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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