Harris SELOD Curriculum vitae (November 2012) CONTACT DETAILS The World Bank tel: +1 202 458 7586 1818 H Street, NW email: hselod@worldbank.org Washington, DC 20433, USA MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS Land economics (land markets, land investments, land tenure, land use and housing informality). Urban and regional economics (land use models, transportation, infrastructure, rural/urban transformation). Labor economics (job search, labor market discrimination, social networks, spatial mismatch). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Since 2007 Senior Economist, DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH GROUP, THE WORLD BANK, Washington D.C, USA. Since 2003 Associate professor of Economics, PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, Paris, France (on leave). Since 2002 Researcher, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, Paris, France (on leave). 2000-2008 Researcher, CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE ET STATISTIQUE, Malakoff, France. 2003-2007 Associate Professor of Economics, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, Palaiseau, France. 2001-2002 Researcher, CENTER FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND ECONOMETRICS, Louvain, Belgium. 1997-1999 Researcher, CENTRE D ETUDES DU DEVELOPPEMENT, Université de Paris 1, Paris, France. EDUCATION 2001 Ph.D. Economics UNIVERSITE DE PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE, Paris, France. Ph.D. dissertation: City Structure and Urban Ghettos. 1999 B.Sc, M.Sc. Statistics ECOLE NATIONALE DE LA STATISTIQUE ET DE L ADMINISTRATION ECONOMIQUE. 1996 M.A. Economics UNIVERSITE DE PARIS 1 PANTHEON-SORBONNE, Paris, France. 1995 B.B.A, M.B.A. ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE COMMERCE DE PARIS (ESCP EUROPE), Paris, France. (Exchange with the University of Toronto, Canada; MBA program). 1990 High School Diploma LYCÉE LOUIS-LE-GRAND, Paris, France. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Technical Committee on Land Policy and Development, French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and Agence Française de Développement. Member of the scientific committee, Service de l Observation et des Statistiques, French Ministry of sustainable development. Research affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). Research affiliate, Centre pour la Recherche Economique et ses Applications (CEPREMAP, Paris). Member of: American Economic Association (AEA), Urban Economics Association (UEA), Regional Science Association International (RSAI). HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS Marie-Curie fellowship from the European Commission (2001-2002). 1
Special mention of the Jacques Tymen Ph.D. dissertation award (2001). Excellence scholarship from the French ministry of finance (2000). Excellence scholarship from the French ministry of research (1996-1999). Prize of the Mayor of Paris awarded to top ranking students in the Paris academy (1987). PUBLICATIONS Papers published in journals Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience, with Laurent Gobillon and Thierry Magnac, Journal of Public Economics, 96, 9-10, October 2012, 881-892. La «course aux terres» : théorie et déterminants empiriques des acquisitions transfrontalières de terres agricoles, with Rabah Arezki and Klaus Deininger, Economie et Statistique, 444-445, February 2012, 223-239. The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Paris Region, with Laurent Gobillon and Thierry Magnac, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 26, 7, November/December 2011, 1079-1112. A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries, with Jan Brueckner, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1, 1, February 2009, 28-51. Residential Segregation and Unemployment: the Case of Brussels, with Claire Dujardin and Isabelle Thomas, Urban Studies, 45, 1, January 2008, 89-113. Les déterminants locaux du chômage en région parisienne, with Laurent Gobillon, Economie et Prévision, 180-181 4/5, 2007, 19-38. The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch, with Laurent Gobillon and Yves Zenou, Urban Studies, 44, 12, November 2007, 2401-27. City Structure, Labour Discrimination and Job Search. Theory and Policy Implications, with Yves Zenou, Economic Journal, 116, October 2006, 1057-1087. The Political Economy of Urban Transport-System Choice, with Jan Brueckner, Journal of Public Economics, 90, August 2006, 983-1005. Une évaluation de la recherche française en économie du développement, with Christian Morrisson, Revue d Economie Politique, January-February 2005, 1-16. Le chômage dans l'agglomération bruxelloise: une explication par la structure urbaine, with Claire Dujardin and Isabelle Thomas, Revue d Economie Régionale et Urbaine, February 2004, 3-28. Private versus Public Schools in post-apartheid South African Cities. Theory and Policy Implications, with Yves Zenou, Journal of Development Economics, 71, August 2003, 351-394. Location and Education in South African Cities under and after Apartheid, with Yves Zenou, Journal of Urban Economics, 49, January 2001, 168-198. Social Interactions, Ethnic Minorities, and Urban Unemployment, with Yves Zenou, Annales d Economie et de Statistique, 63-64, July - December 2001, 183-214. 2
Working papers What drives the global land rush?, with Rabah Arezki and Klaus Deininger, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5864 and International Monetary Fund Working Paper 11/251. The effect of segregation and spatial mismatch on unemployment: Evidence from France, with Laurent Gobillon, CEPR Working Paper 6198, 2007. Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey of Theoretical Predictions and Empirical Findings, with Somik Lall and Zmarak Shalizi, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3915, May 2006. Books The Land Governance Assessment Framework. Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector. with Klaus Deininger and Anthony Burns, Washington D.C.: The World Bank, 2012, 147 pages. Rising Global Interest in Farmland. Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?, with Klaus Deininger, Derek Byerlee, Jonathan Lindsay, Andrew Norton and Mercedes Stickler, Washington D.C.: The World Bank, January 2011, 214 pages. Book chapters Spatial Mismatch, Poverty, and Vulnerable Populations, with Laurent Gobillon, in Fischer M. and Nijkamp P. (eds), Handbook of Regional Science, Springer, forthcoming. Spatial Mismatch, with Laurent Gobillon, in Smith S., Elsinga M., Fox O Mahony L., Seow Eng O., Wachter S., Green R. (eds), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Vol. 7. Oxford: Elsevier, 2012, 5-12. The Land Governance Framework. Methodology and Early Lessons from Country Pilots, with Klaus Deininger and Anthony Burns, in Deininger K., Augustinus C., Enemark S., Munro-Faure P. (eds), Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration and Governance, The World Bank: Washington D.C., April 2010, 188-203. The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries, with Alain Durand-Lasserve, in Lall S., Freire M., Yuen B., Helluin J.-J. (eds), Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization, Springer, October 2009, chapter 5, 101-132. Croissance périurbaine, ségrégation résidentielle et accès aux services publics, with Xavier Amet, Sylvie Charlot, Gaelle Contesti, Mohamed Hilal, Virginie Piguet, Bertrand Schmitt and Michael Visalli, in La Ville pour Tous : un Enjeu pour les Services Publics, Partice Aubertel and François Ménard, eds., La Documentation Française, Paris, 2008, chapter 1, 37-49. Urban Unemployment in the Cape Metropolitan Area, with Sandrine Rospabé, in Poverty and Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Haroon Bhorat and Ravi Kanbur, eds., Human Science Research Council: Pretoria, July 2006, chapter 7, 262-287. La mixité économique et sociale in Villes et Economie, Maurel, Perrot, Prager, Puig, Thisse, eds., La Documentation Française, Paris, 2004, chapter 5, 129-156. 3
Les déterminants spatiaux du chômage en Ile-de-France, with Laurent Gobillon, in Ségrégation Urbaine et Intégration Sociale, Fitoussi, Laurent and Maurice, eds., CAE report N 45 (French council of economic advisors to the Prime Minister), La Documentation Française, Paris, February 2004, 171-187. Other publications (papers in non-refereed journals, newspaper articles and columns) The Global Land rush, with Rabah Arezki and Klaus Deininger, Finance & Development, March 2012, 46-49. From land demand to productive potential: Identification of countries where demand for land expansion may concentrate, with Klaus Deininger, IFPRI West & Central Africa Office Thematic Research Note 01, December 2011. La ségrégation résidentielle : un facteur de chômage, Regards Croisés sur l Economie, 9, May 2011/1, 272-281. Did French enterprise zones fail poor areas? It is mainly about jobs, with Laurent Gobillon and Thierry Magnac, VoxEU.org, January 24, 2011. Le cycle des idées commence à Washington, Variances, 38, May 2010. Terres agricoles : OPA dans les PED, INRA Magazine, 11, December 2009. Discrimination ethnique et discrimination urbaine, with Laurent Gobillon and Thierry Magnac, Libération, May 6, 2009. Does finding work come down to who you are, or where you live?, with Laurent Gobillon and Thierry Magnac, VoxEU.org, March 17, 2007. Contre les ghettos : cibler les personnes et plus seulement les territoires, Telos - Agence Intellectuelle, February 11, 2006. Du bon usage des statistiques ethniques, Telos - Agence Intellectuelle, March 15, 2006. La mixité sociale: le point de vue des sciences économiques, Informations Sociales, 125, July 2005, 28-35. Chômage et ségrégation urbainse, with Laurent Gobillon, Lettre du CREST, November 2005. Ségrégation sociale et périurbanisation, with Jean Cavailhès, INRA Sciences Sociales, 1-2/03, November 2003, 4 pages. Ségrégation urbaine et accès à l'emploi, with Laurent Gobillon, Variances, May 2001. Work in progress City Structure and Informal Property Rights in West Africa, with Lara Tobin. Formalizing Rural Land Tenure in West Africa: Results from an Impact Evaluation in Benin, with Markus Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji, Florence Kondylis and Michael O Sullivan. Can Land Policies be reformed without Transforming Land Institutions? The Cases of Madagascar and Benin, with André Teyssier. 4
Land Markets and Land Delivery Systems in Rapidly Expanding West African Cities: the Case of Bamako, Mali, with Alain Durand-Lasserve and Maylis Durand-Lasserve. Addressing Inefficient Urban Land Use in Developing Countries. 5