Pierre‐Philippe Combes

Biographic Data

ID	5806345
NAME	Pierre‐Philippe Combes
GIVEN NAMES	Pierre‐Philippe
FAMILY NAME	Combes
SIGNATURE	COMBES P P
AFFILIATIONS	Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques
ORCID	0000-0001-7935-7149
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	44
TOTAL CITATIONS	270
AUTHOR COUNT	44
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	8

An anatomy of urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2025
This paper analyzes urbanization patterns across Sub-Saharan Africa circa 2015 using a dartboard algorithm and high-resolution gridded population data to delineate urban areas and urban cores, cities and their population centers, and towns. Key empirical regularities are presented regarding urban hierarchies and internal city structures. Urbanization rates often exceed official ones and vary considerably across countries from 29.4% in Gabon to 78…
Housing costs and real income differences across Chinese cities
Open AccessZhongxu Chen, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2025References: 5
International audience
Time-Varying Agglomeration Economies and Aggregate Wage Growth
Open AccessClémence Berson, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2024
Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers
Open AccessClément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2022References: 26
Using an instrument based on a national contest in France determining researchers’ location, we find evidence of peer effects in academia, when focusing on precise groups of senders (producing the spillovers) and receivers (benefiting from the spillovers), defined based on field of specialisation, gender and age. These peer effects are present even outside formal co-authorship relationships. Furthermore, the match between the characteristics of s…
Urban economics in a historical perspective: Recovering data with machine learning
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2021
Delineating urban areas using building density
Open AccessMarie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2021Cited by: 9References: 21
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2021Cited by: 5
International audience
Unequal Migration and Urbanisation Gains in China
Open AccessPierre‐Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2019Cited by: 4
The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economic Studies2018
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French house and land price data. After handling a number of estimation concerns, we find that the elasticity of urban costs increases with city population with an estimate of about 0.03 for an urban area with 100,000 inhabitants to 0.08 for an urban area of the size of Paris. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of in…
Neighbor discrimination theory and evidence from the French rental market
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2018Cited by: 1References: 32
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2017
Sorting and agglomeration economies in French economics departments
Open AccessClément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2017Cited by: 4References: 39
Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2015
Migration externalities in Chinese cities
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEEuropean Economic Review2015
Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2015
The paper investigates the link between the overexposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their underrepresentation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector–specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer d…
Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2014
Salaires et salariés en Île-de-France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue économique2014Cited by: 1References: 2
Ce travail compare les distributions de salaires et de qualifications de l’Île-de-France et du reste du pays. Les salaires sont plus élevés en Île-de-France de 24 %. Ces différences relèvent pour le quart de qualifications plus élevées et pour le reste d’une plus grande productivité francilienne. Nous montrons aussi que les disparités de salaires sont beaucoup plus fortes à l’intérieur de l’Île-de-France et reflètent alors principalement de plus …
Gender and Competition: Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
Open AccessClément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2013
Product Complexity, Quality of Institutions and the Protrade Effect of Immigrants
Open AccessAnthony Briant, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEWorld Economy2013
The paper assesses the trade‐creating impact of foreign‐born residents on the international imports and exports of the French regions where they are settled. The protrade effect of immigrants is investigated along two intertwined dimensions: the complexity of traded goods and the quality of institutions in partner countries. The trade‐enhancing impact of immigrants is, on average, more salient when they come from a country with weak institutions.…
Are academics who publish more also more cited? Individual determinants of publication and citation records
Open AccessClément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2013
The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012
Un panorama de la recherche française en économie comparant les approches Google Scholar et Econlit
Clément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue d économie politique2012
Nous utilisons les citations Google Scholar 2010 des économistes exerçants en France en 2008 afin de dessiner un panorama de la recherche en économie en France et de tester l’utilisation d’un support plus large qu’Econlit pour l’évaluation de la production de recherche. Nous comparons les indicateurs de citations tels que le nombre de citations divisés par le nombre d’auteurs, l’indice H ou l’indice G calculés au niveau individuel mais aussi des …
The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration From Firm Selection
Open AccessPierre‐Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton et al.ARTICLEEconometrica2012
Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 14 : No. 31 : July-December, 2010
Mauricio Mesquita Moreira, Juan S Blyde et al.REPORT2011
The IDB's Integration & Trade Journal includes articles on the different aspects of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, on hemispheric integration and, furthermore, on similar processes in other parts of the world. The aim is to address the topics included herein from a remarkably conceptual viewpoint, adding information to the knowledge of the topics, ensuring that they are useful for those responsible for adopting governmental polic…
Competition, market access and economic geography: Structural estimation and predictions for France
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2011

Spatial wage disparities: Sorting matters
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2008Cited by: 79References: 23
The identification of agglomeration economies
Pierre‐Philippe Combes, P-P Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2010Cited by: 44References: 5
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établisse…
Dots to boxes: Do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize economic geography estimations
Open AccessAnthony Briant, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2010Cited by: 33References: 16
Economic Structure and Local Growth: France, 1984–1993
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe CombesARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2000Cited by: 33References: 27
Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy
Open AccessPierre‐Philippe Combes, Pierre Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEPapers of the Regional Science…2005Cited by: 20
The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEExplorations in Economic History2011Cited by: 13References: 24
Transport costs: Measures, determinants, and regional policy implications for France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2005Cited by: 13References: 6
We develop a methodology to accurately compute transport costs. Based on the real transport network, our measure encompasses the characteristics of infrastructure, vehicle and energy used, as well as labor, insurance, tax and general charges borne by transport carriers. Computed for the 341 French employment areas, road transport shipments and the period 1978–1998, this new measure is compared to alternative ones such as great circle distance, re…
Delineating urban areas using building density
Open AccessMarie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2021Cited by: 9References: 21
The dynamics of local employment in France
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2004Cited by: 8References: 10
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2021Cited by: 5
International audience
Unequal Migration and Urbanisation Gains in China
Open AccessPierre‐Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2019Cited by: 4
Sorting and agglomeration economies in French economics departments
Open AccessClément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2017Cited by: 4References: 39
Climatic information from δ13C in plants by combining statistical and mechanistic approaches
Open AccessGuillemette Ménot, Guillemette Ménot-Combes et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 3References: 3
The approach commonly used to assess the potential for climate reconstruction is to use linear regressions to compare the isotopic signal stored in archives to instrumental climatic data sets. A new method is proposed that combines statistical and mechanistic approaches to extract climatic information from δ 13 C records in organic matter. Both a spatial and a temporal gradient of 13 C discrimination in a moss species commonly found in temperate …
Neighbor discrimination theory and evidence from the French rental market
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2018Cited by: 1References: 32
Salaires et salariés en Île-de-France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue économique2014Cited by: 1References: 2
Ce travail compare les distributions de salaires et de qualifications de l’Île-de-France et du reste du pays. Les salaires sont plus élevés en Île-de-France de 24 %. Ces différences relèvent pour le quart de qualifications plus élevées et pour le reste d’une plus grande productivité francilienne. Nous montrons aussi que les disparités de salaires sont beaucoup plus fortes à l’intérieur de l’Île-de-France et reflètent alors principalement de plus …

Economic Structure and Local Growth: France, 1984–1993
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe CombesARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2000Cited by: 33References: 27
Coûts de transport et inégalités régionales: Une approche structurelle
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue économique2002
Cet article présente un modèle d’économie géographique permettant d’effectuer une estimation structurelle du lien unissant répartition spatiale des activités et coûts de transaction. Nous effectuons cette estimation au niveau des 341 zones d’emploi françaises, pour 64 secteurs simultanément, en utilisant de nouvelles données de coût généralisé de transport. Nous montrons que ces coûts, les liens intersectoriels et la géographie jouent un rôle dét…
Coûts de transport et inégalités régionales: Une approche structurelle
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue économique2002
L'impact international des articles de recherche français en économie
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue économique2003References: 4
Cet article poursuit une réflexion méthodologique quant à la façon de mesurer l’impact des articles de recherche en économie via les citations qu’ils ont reçues. Les indicateurs mis au point considèrent, ou non, l’âge des articles, les auto-citations, le nombre d’auteurs. L’impact des chercheurs est mesuré soit en volume, soit par article publié, deux périodes (1969-1998 et 1994-1998) pendant lesquelles les articles ont été écrits étant considéré…
Climatic information from δ13C in plants by combining statistical and mechanistic approaches
Open AccessGuillemette Ménot, Guillemette Ménot-Combes et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 3References: 3
The approach commonly used to assess the potential for climate reconstruction is to use linear regressions to compare the isotopic signal stored in archives to instrumental climatic data sets. A new method is proposed that combines statistical and mechanistic approaches to extract climatic information from δ 13 C records in organic matter. Both a spatial and a temporal gradient of 13 C discrimination in a moss species commonly found in temperate …
The dynamics of local employment in France
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2004Cited by: 8References: 10
The trade-creating effects of business and social networks: Evidence from France
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of International Economics2005
Labour pooling, labour poaching, and spatial clustering
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2005
Transport costs: Measures, determinants, and regional policy implications for France
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2005Cited by: 13References: 6
We develop a methodology to accurately compute transport costs. Based on the real transport network, our measure encompasses the characteristics of infrastructure, vehicle and energy used, as well as labor, insurance, tax and general charges borne by transport carriers. Computed for the 341 French employment areas, road transport shipments and the period 1978–1998, this new measure is compared to alternative ones such as great circle distance, re…
Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy
Open AccessPierre‐Philippe Combes, Pierre Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEPapers of the Regional Science…2005Cited by: 20
Publish or peer-rich? The role of skills and networks in hiring economics professors
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLELabour Economics2007
Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.BOOKEconomic Geography2008
Spatial wage disparities: Sorting matters
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2008Cited by: 79References: 23
Discrimination vis-à-vis des emplois en contact avec la clientèle
Laurence Bouvard, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue française d économie2009
The Geography of Unemployment of First and Second-generation Africans in France: 1) Customer Discrimination in Face-to-face Jobs. It is well-known that the unemployment rate differential between people of foreign and French origins has increased over the past decades. This statement must be completed by two key features. First, the unemployment rate differential is considerably higher in large cities than in small ones. Second, this geographic du…
Pourquoi une si faible mobilité résidentielle
Laurence Bouvard, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue française d économie2009
The Geography of Unemployment of First and Second-generation Africans in France: 2) Why such a Low Residential Mobility ? We use the French Housing Survey and analyze the residential mobility of people of African origins. We show that African people are overrepresented in large cities with respect to the rest of the population. We highlight two key factors behind this statement: the geographic concentration of social housing in dense areas and et…
The identification of agglomeration economies
Pierre‐Philippe Combes, P-P Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2010Cited by: 44References: 5
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établisse…
Dots to boxes: Do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize economic geography estimations
Open AccessAnthony Briant, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2010Cited by: 33References: 16
Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 14 : No. 31 : July-December, 2010
Mauricio Mesquita Moreira, Juan S Blyde et al.REPORT2011
The IDB's Integration & Trade Journal includes articles on the different aspects of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, on hemispheric integration and, furthermore, on similar processes in other parts of the world. The aim is to address the topics included herein from a remarkably conceptual viewpoint, adding information to the knowledge of the topics, ensuring that they are useful for those responsible for adopting governmental polic…
Competition, market access and economic geography: Structural estimation and predictions for France
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2011
The empirics of economic geography: How to draw policy implications
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe CombesARTICLEReview of World Economics2011
The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLEExplorations in Economic History2011Cited by: 13References: 24
The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Open AccessPierre-Philippe Combes, Pierre‐Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2012
Un panorama de la recherche française en économie comparant les approches Google Scholar et Econlit
Clément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLERevue d économie politique2012
Nous utilisons les citations Google Scholar 2010 des économistes exerçants en France en 2008 afin de dessiner un panorama de la recherche en économie en France et de tester l’utilisation d’un support plus large qu’Econlit pour l’évaluation de la production de recherche. Nous comparons les indicateurs de citations tels que le nombre de citations divisés par le nombre d’auteurs, l’indice H ou l’indice G calculés au niveau individuel mais aussi des …
The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration From Firm Selection
Open AccessPierre‐Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton et al.ARTICLEEconometrica2012
Gender and Competition: Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
Open AccessClément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2013