Laurent Gobillon is a CNRS Senior Researcher and a Professor with Chaire at the Paris School of Economics. He is also affiliated to the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED) in Paris. He is a Research Fellow at CEPR and IZA. He received the Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Award 2013 attributed by NARSC to the best young researcher in regional science and he is currently Managing Editor of the Regional Science and Urban Economics journal. He has published on a variety of topics in urban economics and economic geography, including agglomeration economies, the effects of segregation and spatial mismatch, the effects of enterprise zones, spatial disparities in wages and health, and the residential mobility when retiring or being widowed.
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(Decision) trees and (random) forests: Urban economics, historical data, and machine learning
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- Economic history 
- Frontiers of economic research
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The effects of decentralisation and competition on hospital management and performance in France
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- Competition Policy 
- Health Economics 
- Industrial organisation 
- Welfare state and social Europe
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The access of immigrants to the homeownership market
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- Migration
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Accounting for the ethnic unemployment gap in France and the US
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- Europe's nations and regions 
- Labour Markets
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Did French enterprise zones fail poor areas? It’s mainly about jobs
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- Labour Markets 
- Poverty and Income Inequality 
- Taxation