JOSEPH-SIMON GOERLACH

I work on topics in labor economics and political economy. I received my PhD in Economics from University College London, and an undergraduate degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen. 

Selected publications:

• "Temporary Migration for Long-term Investment." Journal of Development Economics 174: pp 103360 (2025), with Laurent Bossavie, Çağlar Özden and He Wang.
• “Terrorism and Education: Evidence from Instrumental-Variables Estimators.” Journal of Applied Econometrics 39(5): pp 906-925 (2024), with Marco Alfano.
• “Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Bangladesh.” World Development 176: pp 106505 (2024), with Laurent Bossavie, Çağlar Özden and He Wang.
• “Terrorism, media coverage and education: Evidence from al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya.” Journal of the European Economic Association 21(2): pp 727-763 (2023), with Marco Alfano.
• “Borrowing Constraints, Migrant Selection, and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migrations.” Journal of Labor Economics 41(1): pp 205-243 (2023). 
• “The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation.” Review of Economic Studies 89(6): pp 2841-2871 (2022), with Jérôme Adda and Christian Dustmann.
• “Spillovers and Strategic Interaction in Immigration Policies.” Journal of Economic Geography 21(2): pp 287-315 (2021), with Nicolas Motz.
• “The Economics of Temporary Migrations.” Journal of Economic Literature 54(1): pp 98-136 (2016), with Christian Dustmann.