External Research Fellow

Hillel Rapoport is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of Bar-Ilan University and at EQUIPPE, University of Lille. He is currently visiting research fellow at the Center for International Development (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and is also affiliated with IRES (Université Catholique de Louvain) and CEPREMAP (Paris). He serves or has served as consultant on migration issues for the World Bank, the G-20, the French Development Agency, and the Inter-American Development Bank. In 2001-03 he was visiting research fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Development (SCID) and visiting assistant professor at Stanford University’s Department of Economics. He received the Milken Institute Award in 2003 and the Developing Countries Prize in 2008. Since 2008 he is the scientific coordinator of the “migration and development” conferences jointly organized by the French Development Agency and the World Bank Migration and Development Program.

Hillel’s research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration. As part of this research program he has done theoretical and empirical work on the brain drain, remittances, the effect of migration on inequality and educational attainments at origin, ethnic discrimination in a context of migration, and the links between migration, FDI, and institutions. His other research interests include the economics of ethnic and religious minorities, economic history, and the economic analysis of altruism.

Hillel Rapoport joined CReAM as an external fellow in March 2006.