CURRICULUM VITAE
Hillel Rapoport, September 2016
Name
RAPOPORT, Hillel
Date, place of birth
26 November 1963, Haifa (Israel)
Citizenship(s)
French, Israeli
Professional address
Email
Paris School of Economics
48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris
[email protected]
Webpage
http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/rapoport-hillel/
EDUCATION AND CAREER
Current Position
2013-
Professor, Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Chaire Associée (Chaired Professor), since September 2016
Co-director for Research on the Economics of Globalization, labex OSE
Co-director, G-MonD Research Group on Globalization and Development
Past positions
2009-2011
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for International Development, and Visiting
Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2007-2013
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University
2001-2003
Visiting Research Fellow, Stanford Institute for International Development, and
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University
1997-2007
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University
1993-1997
Maître de Conférences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Université de Lille II
Research affiliations
2016-
Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, University of Chicago
2016-
CEPII, Paris
2014-
CESifo, Munich
2013-
Migration Policy Center, European University Institute
IZA, Bonn
2011-
Center for International Development, Harvard University
2010-
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
2006-
Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London
Education and academic titles
PhD in Economics, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 1993.
Master in Development Economics, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, 1986.
B.A. in Economics, Université de Lille I, 1984.
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Academic distinctions, fellowships
Research Leave, National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), 2015-16 (100%), 2016-17 (50%)
Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, 2009-11
Developing Countries Prize 2008, awarded by the Justus Liebig Universität Giessen “in recognition of
scientific achievements on “migration and development”, November 2008.
Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, Milken Institute, Los Angeles, 2003
Annual Junior Research Fellowship, Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford
University, 2001-02
Recent research grants
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). Economic and spatial assimilation of immigrants and
refugees, 2016-19. Co-investigator; coordinator: Grégory Verdugo, University Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne.
Ministry of the Interior, Direction Générale des Etrangers en France (DGEF), Paris. Evaluation of
integration policies for new immigrants as part of the « Contrat d'Accueil et d'Intégration », 201516. Coordinator and PI; co-PI: Biagio Speciale, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/ PSE.
German-Israeli Foundation (GIF). The effect of emigration on the quality of governance at home,
2013-15. Co-PI: Toman Barsbai, The Kiel Institute. Declined.
Luxembourg National Science Foundation (FNRS). The IMPALA (International Migration Policy And
Law Analysis) Project. The project gathers research teams from Harvard, London School of
Economics, Amsterdam, Sydney and Luxembourg, 2012-2015. Co-PI; coordinator: Michel Beine,
University of Luxembourg.
McArthur Foundation, Initiative on Global Migration and Human Mobility. Migration, International
Capital Flows and Economic Development, 2009-11. Project based at the Harvard Kennedy School
of Government (co-PIs: Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard Kennedy School, and Maurice Kugler, World
Bank), 2009-11.
Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti and CEPR. The impact of highly-skilled migration on developing
countries, 2009-2010. Co-PI: Frédéric Docquier, Catholic University of Louvain.
DREES/MiRE, Ministère de la Santé et des Affaires Sociales, Paris. Immigration and Social
Protection (scientific director), 2007-2009.
TEACHING AND SUPERVISION
Courses taught
Undergraduate level: Development Economics, International Trade, Public Economics, Price Theory,
Introduction to Economic Analysis (Micro and Macro)
Graduate level:
Migration and Development: Master in Public Policy and Development, Paris School of Economics;
Economics of International Migration: Master Economic Policy Analysis (APE), Paris School of
Economics; Advanced Graduate Studies Program, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, February
2014; January 2016
Political Economy of Immigration: Master in Applied Economics, U. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Population, migration and development: Master in Development Economics, University Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne; Master in Public Administration and International Development, Harvard
Kennedy School, Spring 2011
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Doctoral supervision
Ongoing
Martin Fernandez, PSE-EHESS. Dissertation title: “Subjective well-being, migration and social
mobility” (co-supervision with Andrew Clark), started September 2016.
Alexia Lochmann, PSE-Paris 1. Dissertation title: “Immigrants’ Cultural and Economic Integration”,
started September 2015
Sulin Sardoschau, PSE-Paris 1. Dissertation title: “Essays on the Economics of social attitudes”,
started September 2014
Cem Ozguzel, PSE-Paris 1. Dissertation title: “Immigration, diversity and the productivity of firms”,
started September 2014
Completed
Johann Harnoss, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Dissertation title: “Essays on the Economics
of Immigration and Birthplace Diversity”, January 2014.
Haddas Don Yehiya, Bar-Ilan University (co-supervisor: Arthur Fishman). Dissertation title: “FDI,
outsourcing and economic growth”, December 2013.
Rezina Sultana, Bar-Ilan University (co-supervisor: Arye Hillman). Dissertation title: “The political
economy of the Indian caste system”, December 2012.
Cécily Defoort, Université de Lille II (co-supervisor: Frédéric Docquier). Dissertation title: “Skilled
migration and human capital: insights from a new panel database”, November 2007.
Carine Drapier, Université de Lille I (co-supervisor: Hubert Jayet). Dissertation title: “The effect of
geographic mobility on youth labor market integration: evidence from France”, December 2001.
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES (SINCE 2005)
Conference organization
Scientific Coordination of the Annual AFD-World Bank Migration and Development Conferences
2016
9th AFD-World Bank-CGD Conference on “International Migration and Development”,
Migration Policy Center, European University Institute, Florence, June (co-organizers: C.
Bellier, Ph. Fargues, C. Ozden, A. Venturini).
2015
8th AFD-World Bank-CGD Conference on “International Migration and Development”, World
Bank, Washington D.C., June (co-organizers: C. Bellier, M. Clemens, C. Ozden).
2014
7th AFD-World Bank-CGD Conference on “International Migration and Development”,
International Migration Institute, Oxford University, June (co-organizers: Cyril Bellier,
Michael Clemens, Hein de Haas, Caglar Ozden and Christopher Parsons).
2013
6th AFD-World Bank-CGD Conference on “International Migration and Development”, Al
Akhawayn University Ifrane, May (co-organizers: M. Clemens, M. Multhria, C. Ozden).
2012
5th AFD-World Bank Conference on Migration and Development, Agence Française de
Développement, Paris, June (co-organizers: Michael Clemens and Thomas Melonio).
2011
4th AFD-World Bank Conference on Migration and Development, Center for International
Development, Harvard University, June (co-organizers: R. Hausmann and E. Schumacher)
2010
3rd AFD-World Bank Conference on Migration and Development, Paris School of Economics,
September (co-organizers: Marc Gurgand and Sylvie Lambert)
2009
2nd AFD-World Bank Conference on “International Migration and Development”, The World
Bank, Washington D.C., September (co-organizers: C. Ozden and M. Schiff).
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2008
International Migration and Development, Grand Colloque ADRES 2008, Lille, June (coorganizer: Hubert Jayet)
Other conferences
Globalization and the brain drain, Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9-11
December 2008 (co-organizer: Eric Gould)
Editorial activity
Editorial boards
Journal of Population Economics (Springer), 2016International Economics (Elsevier), 2014Guest-editor
World Bank Economic Review, special issue on Migration and Development, forthcoming 2017
Economic Journal, special issue on Migration and Development, forthcoming 2016
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue on Migration and Development, 117, 2, 2015
World Development, special issue on Migration and Development, Vol. 65, January 2015
Journal of Development Economics, special issue on Migration and Development, Vol 102, May 2013
Regional Science and Urban Economics, special issue on Migration and Development, 42, 5, 2012
World Bank Economic Review, special issue on Migration and Development, Vol. 25, 1, 2011
Journal of Development Economics, special issue on Globalization and the Brain Drain, 95, 1, 2011
Annals of Economics and Statistics, special issue on Migration and Development, No 97-98, 2010
Scientific committees
2015 –
2014 –
2013
2012-2015
2011
2009
Coordinator for the Migration Cross-Cutting Issue, International Panel on Social
Progress
Scientific Committee, Annual OECD-CEPII Conference on Immigration in OECD
Countries
Norface Migration Network Conference on “Migration: Economic Change, Social
Challenge”, University College London, April
International Advisory Board, project on “Dynamics and Drivers of High-Skill
Migration”, International Migration Institute, Oxford University
Norface Migration Network Conference on “Migration: Global Development, New
Frontiers”, University College London, April.
International Institute of Public Finance Meeting, Cape Town, August.
Selected conference presentations
Public Lectures
“Skilled Migration and Globalization” (title tbc), Lecture Series of the Max Planck Institute for the
Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, January 2017 (scheduled).
“Combining Physical and Financial Solidarity in Refugee Protection: Tradable Refugee-Admission
Quotas (TRAQs), Matching and EU Asylum Policy”, Lecture Series on “The End of Globalization?
Understanding Challenges to International Cooperation”, University of Heidelberg, December 1st,
2016 (scheduled)
“Combining Physical and Financial Solidarity in Refugee Protection: Tradable Refugee-Admission
Quotas (TRAQs), Matching and EU Asylum Policy”, Werner Sichel Lecture Series, Upjohn Institute
for Employment Research, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, September 28, 2016
(scheduled)
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Keynote Lectures
“How does migration affect development?”, European Development Network Annual Conference,
Center for Development Research, Bonn University, December 5, 2016 (scheduled)
“Using Minimum Wages to Identify the Labor Market Effects of Immigration”, Economics of
Migration Workshop, Ruhr Graduate School in Economics, Essen, September 24-25, 2016 (scheduled)
“Migration, FDI and the Margins of Trade”, FDI and Economic Development Conference, Kiel
Institute for the World Economy and UNIDO, Vienna, September 14-15, 2016
“Using Minimum Wages to Identify the Labor Market Effects of Immigration”, Barcelona Summer
Forum Migration Workshop, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, June 2016.
“Social remittances”, Annual Meeting of the Italian Development Economics Association (IDEA),
University of Florence, September 2015
“Migration and globalization: what’s in it for developing countries?”, 6th International Conference on
“Economics of Global Interactions”, University of Bari, September 2015
“Social remittances”, Annual Meeting of the German Development Economics Association, Kiel
Institute for the World Economy, June 2015
“The effect of emigration on the diffusion of democracy”, 1st PhD Workshop on the Economics of
Migration, University of Southampton, February 2015
“The effect of emigration on the diffusion of democracy”, 4th Conference of the GDRI-DREEM
Economic Policies and Institutional Changes in Mediterranean Countries, Florence, September 2013
“Tradable Immigration Quotas”, 2nd Environment and Development Conference, CERDI – University
of Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, October 2012
“Migration, FDI and the margins of trade”, 2nd TEMPO Conference on International Migration, CEPR
and Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WiiW), Vienna, November 2011.
“Globalization, brain drain and development”, 2nd Transnationality Of Migrants (TOM) Conference,
Marie Curie European Research Network, Université Catholique de Louvain, January 2009.
“Globalization, brain drain and development”, International Symposium on Migration and
Development, Justus Liebig University Giessen, November 2008.
Policy lectures
The Global Competition for Human Capital: Overview and Lessons for Chile, Centro de Estudios
Publicos, Santiago, March 2016
The EU Response to the Refugee Crisis – Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and the New European
Agenda on Migration, Report presentation, Permanent Representation of Sweden to the EU,
Brussels, February 2016
OECD DevTalks, “Asylum Policy and Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas”, Paris, December 2015
Policy conferences and seminars
Beyond Dublin: Rethinking Europe’s Asylum System, Public Hearing, European Parliament, Brussels,
June 2015
Migration Policy Center Annual Conference, European University Institute, Florence, June 2013
WIPO Experts Meeting on Intellectual Property, the International Mobility of Knowledge Workers
and the Brain Drain, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, April 2013
Global Economic Symposium (GES), Plön Castle, Germany, September 2008.
G-20 Workshop on Demographic Challenges and Migration, Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of
Australia, Sydney, August 2005.
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Academic conferences and workshops
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Skilled immigration: problems, prospects and policies, Russel Sage Foundation, Council on
Foreign Affairs and Columbia University, New York, March
Royal Economic Society, invited session on “The Brain Drain”, Nottingham, March
European Society for Population Economics, Paris, June
European Society for Population Economics, Verona, June
Association Française de Sciences Economiques, Paris, September
Outsourcing, migration and the European economy, European Science Foundation, CEPR and
Universita Tor Vegata, Rome, September
Migration and Human Development in Mexico, UNDP and Stanfor Center for International
Development, Stanford University, April.
CHILD Workshop on Economic Integration and Migration, Università di Bari, June
XIXth Villa Mondragone Conference, Università Tor Vergata, Rome, June
New Challenges in Economic Research, Louvain School of Economics, September.
Workers without borders, Maastricht School of Governance, Maastricht University, March
Global High Skill Labor Markets, Sloan Industry Studies Conference, Boston, May
Globalization and Migration Workshop, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University, September
International Migration: Trends and Challenges, Annual OECD-CEPII Conference, October
Second “Transnationality Of Migrants (TOM)” Conference, Marie Curie European Research
Network, Université Catholique de Louvain, January
Brain drain or brain gain?, CEPR and Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti, Pisa, May.
A World in Motion: Interdisciplinary Conference on Migration and Migration Policy,
Maastricht School of Governance, February
IVth Insights on Immigration and Development Workshop, Institute of Economic Analysis,
Barcelona, June
Final Conference of the Transnationality Of Migrants (TOM) Marie Curie Research Network,
CEPR and Venice International University, Venice, September
Norface Migration Network Conference on “Migration: Economic Change, Social
Challenge”, University College London, April
Geographical Mobility of Workers and Firms, Université Catholique de Louvain, January
The political economy of migration, PEGGED EU-FP7 Program and CEPR, Brussels, May
1st CEMIR Conference on International Migration, CESifo, Munich, December
10th IZA Migration Meeting, IZA and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June
4th TEMPO Conference on International Migration, Nottingham University, September
High-Skill Immigration and the Global Economy, NBER, Cambridge, October
North-East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, Harvard, November
CESifo Economic Studies Conference on Migration, Munich, December
3rd OECD-CEPII Annual Conference on Immigration to OECD Countries, Paris, December
International Labor Mobility & Inequality Across Nations, CERDI-Clermont-Ferrand, January
Demographic Change and Long-run Growth, CESifo Venice Summer Institute, July
Immigration and the Welfare State, CESifo, Munich, December
International Panel for Social Progress (IPSP), Meeting of Lead Authors, Istanbul, August
COEURE Workshop on Migration and the Labor Market, Brussels, September
North-East Universities Development Consortium Conference, Brown University, November
10th Matching in Practice Workshop, Toulouse School of Economics, December
5th OECD-CEPII Annual Conference on Immigration to OECD Countries, Paris, December
Forum on Migration, Citizenship and Demography, EUI Migration Policy Center, February
Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, Paris, Sciences-Po, June.
Understanding Refugee Law as Shared Responsibility Workshop, Allard School of Law,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July
HCEO Market Design Perspectives on Inequality Conference, University of Chicago, August
Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA), Medellin, November
(scheduled)
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PUBLICATIONS
Edited books
1. Brain drain or brain gain? The international competition to attract high-skill migrants,
Oxford University Press, 2012 (with Tito Boeri, Herbert Brücker and Frédéric Docquier)
2. The economics of immigration and social diversity (with Carmel Chiswick and Solomon
Polachek), Research in Labor Economics, Volume 24, Elsevier Publishers, 2006.
3. Altruisme: Analyses Economiques (with François-Régis Mahieu), Paris: Economica, 1998.
Handbook Chapter
4. “The economics of migrants’ remittances” (with Frédéric Docquier); in S.-C. KOLM and J.
MERCIER YTHIER, eds. (2006): Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and
Reciprocity, Amsterdam: Elsevier-North Holland, Handbooks in Economics (Series Editors:
Kenneth Arrow and Michael Intriligator). Chapter 17, Volume 2, pp. 1135-98.
 This chapter has more than 900 citations in Google Scholar and 100 citations in Scopus.
Book chapters
5. “Quantifying the impact of highly-skilled emigration on developing countries” (with Frederic
Docquier), in T. BOERI, H. BRÜCKER, F. DOCQUIER and H. RAPOPORT, eds.: Brain drain or
brain gain? The international competition to attract high-skill migrants, Oxford University
Press, 2012.
6. “Skilled migration: the perspective of developing countries” (with Frédéric Docquier), in J.
BHAGWATI and G. HANSON, eds.: Skilled migration: prospects, problems and policies,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Chapter 9, pp. 247-84.
 This chapter has more than 300 citations in Google Scholar.
7. “In-group cooperation in a hostile environment – An economic perspective on some aspects of
Jewish life in (pre-Modern) Diaspora” (with Avi Weiss); in C. CHISWICK, T. LECKER and N.
KAHANA, eds.: Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan
University Press, 2007. Pp. 103-28.
8. “Strategic and Altruistic Remittances” (with Frédéric Docquier); in GERARD-VARET, L.-A.,
S.-C. KOLM and J. MERCIER YTHIER, eds.: The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and
Altruism, New York: MacMillan & St Martin Press, 2000. Chapter 16.
Journal articles
9. “Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations” (with Dany
Bahar), Economic Journal, forthcoming.
10. “The effect of labor migration on the diffusion of democracy: evidence from a former Soviet
Republic” (with T. Barsbai, A. Steinmayr and C. Trebesch), American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics, forthcoming.
11. “Migration and globalization: what’s in it for developing countries?”, International Journal
of Manpower, forthcoming.
12. “Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the IMPALA Database” (with M.
Beine, B. Burgoon, M. Crock, J. Gest, M. Hiscox, P. McGovern, J. Schaper and E.
Thielemann), International Migration Review, forthcoming.
13. “Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity” (with Alberto Alesina and Johann Harnoss),
Journal of Economic Growth, 21, 2, 2016: 101-138 (lead article).
14. “Emigration and democracy” (with Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani and Maurice
Schiff), Journal of Development Economics, 120, 2016: 209-223.
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15. “Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality” (with Andrew
Mountford), World Economy, 39, 4, 2016: 543-556.
16. “Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European
Agenda on Migration” (with Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga), IZA Journal of European
Labor Studies, 2015: 4-23.
17. “Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy” (with Jesus Fernandez-Huertas
Moraga), CESifo Economic Studies, 61, 3-4, 2015: 638-672.
18. “Measuring immigration policies: preliminary evidence from IMPALA” (with M. Beine, B.
Burgoon, M. Crock, J. Gest, M. Hiscox, P. McGovern and E. Thielemann), CESifo Economic
Studies, 61, 3-4, 2015: 527-559.
19. “Heaven’s Swing Door: Endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of
selective immigration policies” (with Simone Bertoli), Scandinavian Journal of Economics,
117, 2, 2015: 565-91.
20. “Migration and Development Research is Moving Far Beyond Remittances” (with Michael
Clemens and Caglar Ozden), World Development, 64, 2014: 121-124.
21. “Measuring and Comparing Migration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies
Globally: Challenges and Solutions” (with M. Beine, A. Boucher, B. Burgoon, M. Crock, J.
Gest, M. Hiscox, P. McGovern and E. Thielemann), Global Policy, 5, 3, 2014: 261-74.
22. “Tradable immigration quotas” (with Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga), Journal of Public
Economics, 115, 2014: 94-108
23. “Globalization, brain drain and development” (with Frédéric Docquier), Journal of Economic
Literature, 50, 3, 2012: 681-730.
 This paper has more than 400 citations in Google Scholar, 92 in Scopus and 74 in SSCI,
which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles published in JEL since 2012.
24. “Remittances, migrants’ education and immigration policy: theory and evidence from new
bilateral data” (with Frederic Docquier and Sara Salomone), Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 42, 5, 2012: 817-28.
25. “Can migration reduce educational attainments? Evidence from Mexico” (with David
McKenzie), Journal of Population Economics, 24, 4, 2011: 1331-58.
 This paper has more than 400 citations in Google Scholar (all versions), 56 citations in
Scopus and 47 citations in SSCI, which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles
published in Journal of Population Economics since 2011.
26. “Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants
remit more” (with Albert Bollard, David McKenzie and Melanie Morten), World Bank
Economic Review, 25, 1, 2011: 132-56.
 This paper has more than 140 citations in Google Scholar (all versions), 36 citations in
Scopus and 28 citations in SSCI, which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles
published in World Bank Economic Review since 2011.
 Reprinted in R.H. ADAMS, H. DE HAAS, and U. OSILI, eds. (2012): Anthology on Migrant
Remittances and Development: Research Perspectives, 2nd edition. New York: Social
Science Research Council.
27. “The brain drain and the world distribution of income” (with Andrew Mountford), Journal of
Development Economics, 95, 1 (2011): 4-17. (lead article)
28. “Self-selection patterns in Mexico-US migration: the role of migration networks” (with David
McKenzie), Review of Economics and Statistics, 92, 4, 2010: 811-21.
 This paper has more than 320 citations in Google Scholar (all versions), 105 citations in
Scopus and 95 citations in SSCI, which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles
published in Review of Economics and Statistics since 2010.
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29. “Remittances and inequality: a dynamic migration model” (with Frédéric Docquier and I-Ling
Shen), Journal of Economic Inequality, 8, 2, 2010: 197-220.
30. “On the robustness of brain gain estimates” (with Michel Beine and Frédéric Docquier),
Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 97-98, 2010 : 143-65.
31. “Documenting the brain drain of “la crème de la crème”: three case studies on international
migration at the upper tail of the education distribution” (with Frédéric Docquier), Journal of
Economics and Statistics, 229, 6, 2009: 679-705.
32. “Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries: winners and losers” (with
Michel Beine and Frédéric Docquier), Economic Journal, 118, 4, 2008: 631-52.
 This paper has more than 900 citations in Google Scholar (all versions), 190 citations in
Scopus and 155 citations in SSCI, which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles
published in Economic Journal since 2008.
 Reprinted in B. CHISWICK AND P. MILLER, eds: Recent Developments in the Economics of
Immigration, John Wiley and Edward Elgar, 2012.
 Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research 2003
33. “Economic growth and endogenous intergenerational altruism” (with Jean-Pierre Vidal),
Journal of Public Economics, 91, 7-8, 2007: 1231-46. (lead article)
34. “Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: theory and evidence from
Mexico” (with David McKenzie), Journal of Development Economics, 84, 1, 2007: 1-24.
(lead article)
 This paper has more than 600 citations in Google Scholar, 152 in Scopus and 133 in SSCI,
which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles published in JDE since 2007.
 Reprinted in R.H. ADAMS, H. DE HAAS, and U. OSILI, eds. (2012): Anthology on Migrant
Remittances and Development: Research Perspectives, 2nd edition. New York: Social
Science Research Council.
35. “Measuring international skilled migration: a new database controlling for age of entry” (with
Michel Beine and Frédéric Docquier), World Bank Economic Review, 21, 2, 2007: 249-54.
 This paper has more than 160 citations in Google Scholar, 50 in Scopus and 36 in SSCI.
36. “Migration and education inequality in rural Mexico” (with David McKenzie), Integration
and Trade Journal, 27, 2007: 135-58.
37. “International labor and capital flows: complements or substitutes?” (with Maurice Kugler),
Economics Letters, 94, 2, 2007: 155-62. (lead article)
 This paper has more than 180 citations in Google Scholar, 66 in Scopus and 52 in SSCI.
38. “On the Law of Return in rural-urban interactions: an economic approach to solidarity with
return migrants” (with Carine Drapier and Hubert Jayet), Research in Labor Economics, 24,
2006: 427-48.
39. “Migration selectivity and the evolution of spatial inequality” (with Ravi Kanbur), Journal of
Economic Geography, 5, 1, 2005: 43-57.
 This paper has more than 140 citations in Google Scholar, 60 in Scopus and 43 in SSCI.
40. “On human capital formation with exit options” (with Eliakim Katz), Journal of Population
Economics, 18, 2, 2005: 267-74.
41. “Who is afraid of the brain drain – Human capital flight and growth in developing countries”,
Brussels Economic Review/Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 47, 1, 2004: 89-102.
42. “Endogenous discrimination, migration and the protection of ethnic minorities” (with Frédéric
Docquier), Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 71-72, 2003: 76-91.
43. “The optimal size for a minority” (with Avi Weiss), Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 52, 1, 2003: 27-45.
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44. “Ethnic discrimination and the migration of skilled labor” (with Frédéric Docquier), Journal
of Development Economics, 70, 1, 2003: 159-72.
45. “Migration, credit constraints and self-employment: A simple model of occupational choice,
inequality and growth”, Economics Bulletin, 15, 7, 2002: 1-5.
46. “Cooperative minorities and intergroup hostility” (with Avi Weiss), Annales d’Economie et
de Statistique, 63-64, 2001: 171-82.
47. “Brain drain and economic growth: theory and evidence” (with Michel Beine and Frédéric
Docquier), Journal of Development Economics, 64, 1, 2001: 275-89.
 This paper has more than 1100 citations in Google Scholar, 277 in Scopus and 215 in
SSCI, which makes it one of the top-5 most cited articles published in JDE since 2001.
 Reprinted in C. BELFIELD, ed. (2006): Modern Classics in the Economics of Education,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Volume II, chapter 20.
 Reprinted in M. CZAIKA & C. VARGAS-SILVA, eds. (2012): Migration and Economic
Growth, International Library of Studies on Migration, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
48. “Drug addiction and the economic rationalization of gun control” (with Gil Epstein and Avi
Weiss), Economics Letters, 65, 1, 1999: 55-57.
49. “Are migrant minorities strategically self-selected?” (with Frédéric Docquier), Journal of
Population Economics, 11, 4, 1998: 579-88.
50. “Coordination, altruism and underdevelopment”, Kyklos, 48, 3, 1995: 389-407.
Working papers and work in progress
 “The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition: evidence from internal migration in 19th century
France” (with Guillaume Daudin and Raphael Franck), CESifo Working Paper No 5866, April 2016.
See file:///C:/Users/hillel%20rapoport/Downloads/cesifo1_wp5866.pdf. Revise and Resubmit at
Economic Journal.
 “Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows” (with Maurice Kugler and Oren Levintal), IZA
Discussion Paper No 7548, August 2013. See http://ftp.iza.org/dp7548.pdf Revise and Resubmit at
World Bank Economic Review.
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“Migration, FDI and the margins of trade” (with A. Aubry and A. Resheff), September 2016.
 “Immigration, attitudes to redistribution and the future of the Welfare State in Europe (with
Alberto Alesina and Johann Harnoss), Mimeo., November 2014
 “Using minimum wages to identify the labor market effects of immigration” (with Anthony Edo),
Mimeo., September 2016
 “The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants’ Integration: Empirical Evidence from France”
(with Alexia Lochmann and Biagio Speciale), Mimeo., September 2016.
Impact and total citations (as of September 15, 2016)
Google
Scholar
Social Science
Citations Index
Scopus (Science
Direct)
Repec
Total Cites
7188
970
1313
1851
h-index
32
12
13
18
World Rank
920 (top 2%)
French Rank
20 (top 1%)
Economics of Human
Migration Rank
4th
10