John Giles
The World Bank
jgiles@worldbank.org
John Giles is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. His current research interests include: the movement of labor from agricultural to non-agricultural employment, internal migration and its impacts on households and communities, poverty traps, household risk-coping and risk-management behavior, long-term effects of shocks to employment, school-to-work transitions, population aging and retirement decisions in developing countries, and women's labor supply decisions in developing countries. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Prior to joining the World Bank in May 2007, he spent two years as an Academy Scholar at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and six years at Michigan State, where he was an Associate Professor before joining the World Bank.
de Brauw, Alan and John Giles. 2017. “Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China,” World Bank Economic Review 32(1) (February 2018): 1-18.
de Brauw, Alan and John Giles. 2017. “Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China,” Journal of Human Resources 52(1) (Winter 2017): 274-313.
Giles, John and Elan Satriawan. 2015. “Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia,” Journal of Development Economics 114(1) (May 2015): 97-106.
Benjamin, Dwayne, Loren Brandt and John Giles. 2011. “Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?” Economic Journal, 121(557) (December 2011): 1281-1309.
Giles, John and Ren Mu. 2007. “Elderly Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China,” Demography 44(2) (May 2007): 265-288.
Giles, John and Kyeongwon Yoo. 2007. “Precautionary Behavior, Migrant Networks and Household Consumption Decisions: An Empirical Analysis Using Household Panel Data from Rural China,” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(3) (August 2007): 534-551.