Harris Selod

Datos Biográficos

ID1123615
NOMBREHarris Selod
NOMBRESHarris
APELLIDOSelod
FIRMASELOD H
AFILIACIONESWorld Bank
ORCID0000-0002-0886-1265
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAS169
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H5

  • Customary land conversion in sub-Saharan African cities

    Open AccessPierre M Picard, Harris SelodARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2025Referencias: 2

    We propose an urban model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in developing country cities. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways. Tenure risk and asymmetric information likely cause insufficient urban development. Empirical tests of the model for Bamako, Mali, confirm the existence of tenure ins…

  • Right to stay? Long-run experimental evidence on land formalization and widows’ tenure security in Benin

    Open AccessIona Botea, Ioana Botea et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2025Referencias: 6

    In many parts of the world, women’s land rights remain informal, leaving widows – especially those without a male heir – at high risk of losing access to their land and homes when their husbands die. We study whether large-scale land formalization programs can improve widows’ tenure security, using data from a randomized controlled trial in rural Benin. Four years after the intervention, widows in villages with land formalization were significant…

  • Informal land markets and ethnic kinship in West African cities

    Open AccessLucie Letrouit, Harris SelodARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2024

  • Customary Land Conversion in African Cities

    Open AccessPierre M Picard, Harris SelodARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2023

  • Climate Policy and Inequality in Urban Areas

    Open AccessCharlotte Liotta, Paolo Avner et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2023

    Opposition to climate policies is partly due to their impacts on inequality. But with most economic studies focused on income inequalities, the quantitative spatial effect of economic climate policy instruments is poorly understood. Here, using a model derived from the standard urban model of urban economics, we simulate a fuel tax in Cape Town, South Africa, decomposing its impacts by income class, housing type, and location, and over different …

  • Rural-urban migration in developing countries

    Open AccessHarris Selod, Forhad ShilpiARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2021

  • Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries

    Open AccessForhad Shilpi, Harris SelodBOOK2021

    This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries, focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do migrants face? What are the impacts of migration on migrants and the economy? The literature paints a complex picture whereby rural-urban migration is driven by many factors and the returns to migration as well as the costs are very high. The evidence supports the not…

  • Children Left Behind in China

    Open AccessHai-Anh Dang, Yang Huang et al.ARTICLEIZA Journal of Development and…2020Referencias: 19

    The barriers faced by Chinese rural–urban migrants to access social services, particularly education, in host cities could help explain why the majority of them choose to leave their children behind. We identified the causal impacts of school fees by instrumenting for it with unexpected shocks to the city’s public education spending. Our findings suggest that higher fees deter migrant workers from bringing their children with them, especially the…

  • Spatial Mismatch, Poverty, and Vulnerable Populations

    Open AccessLaurent Gobillon, Harris SelodCHAPTERHandbook of Regional Science2019

  • Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing

    Basile Pfeiffer, Claus Rabe et al.BOOK2019

    Building on a two-dimensional discrete \n version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this \n paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model \n that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal \n and informal housing submarkets coexist. The dynamic \n closed-city framework simulates developers' \n construction decisions and heterogeneous households' \n housing and location choices at a distance from various \n em…

  • Roads and Rural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Claudia N Berg, Brian Blankespoor et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2018

    This paper assesses the relationship between access to markets and land cultivation in sub-Saharan Africa. Using a geo-referenced panel over four decades (1970–2010) during which the road network was significantly improved, we find a modest impact of improved market accessibility on local cropland expansion – especially in places that are exposed to better agricultural production conditions – as well as suggestive evidence of an increase in the l…

  • Formalization without certification? Experimental evidence on property rights and investment

    Open AccessMarjorie Goldstein, Kenneth Houngbedji et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2018Citada por: 26Referencias: 3

  • Children Left Behind in China

    Yang Huang, Hai-Anh Dang et al.BOOK2016

    The barriers faced by Chinese rural-urban migrants to access social services, particularly education, in host cities could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that allows for an explicit discussion of the link between school fees and the decision of migrant parents to bring their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with u…

  • Transport Policies and Development

    Open AccessClaudia N Berg, Uwe Deichmann et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2016

    This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport investments and policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. It also discusses the specific implementation challenges of transport interventions in developing countries

  • Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa

    Kenneth Houngbedji, Marjorie Goldstein et al.BOOK2015

    This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation process involved communities in the mapping and attribution of land rights; cornerstones marked parcel boundaries and offered lasting landmarks. Consistent w…

  • Spatial Mismatch, Poverty, and Vulnerable Populations

    Open AccessLaurent Gobillon, Harris SelodCHAPTERHandbook of Regional Science2014

  • What Drives the Global “Land Rush”

    Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Economic Review2013

    We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007–8 boom in agricultural commodity prices, and we study the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. The use of data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate gravity models of transnational land-intensive investments confirms the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. However, this fin…

  • Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience

    Open AccessLaurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012

  • Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? The French experience

    Open AccessLaurent Gobillon, Thierry Magnac et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Economics2012

  • Rising Global Interest in Farmland

    Klaus Deininger, Derek Byerlee et al.BOOKRising Global Interest In…2011

    Interest in farmland is rising. And, given commodity price volatility, growing human and environmental pressures, and worries about food security, this interest will increase, especially in the developing world. One of the highest development priorities in the world must be to improve smallholder agricultural productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and better investment i…

  • What Drives the Global Land Rush

    Harris Selod, Klaus W Deininger et al.BOOKWhat Drives the Global Land Rush?2011

  • What Drives the Global Land Rush

    Open AccessRabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2011

  • What drives the global land rush

    Open AccessHarris Selod, Klaus Deininger et al.ARTICLEIMF Working Paper2011

    This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as well as indicators of land rights security. Results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature …

  • La « course aux terres »

    Open AccessRabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger et al.ARTICLEEconomie et Statistique /…2011Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    Depuis la flambee des prix agricoles de 2007-2008, les medias se sont fait l'echo d'une course aux terres a l'echelle planetaire selon laquelle des pays importateurs de denrees alimentaires chercheraient a securiser leurs approvisionnements en acquerant de larges quantites de terres cultivables dans des pays en developpement. Au-dela des comportements speculatifs repondant a la fluctuation des prix mondiaux les analystes voient dans ce phenomene …

  • La « course aux terres ». Quelques éclairages empiriques

    Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger et al.ARTICLEAfrique contemporaine2011