Paula Nagler is an economic researcher and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS). She teaches in the quantitative methods course Urban Data Analytics and at the Urban Digital Transformation & Innovation master track. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship and labor markets, inequality and inclusive innovation. Paula has approximately 15 years of experience with public policy analysis, impact evaluation and micro-data analysis in a developing context. She has worked extensively with household surveys and administrative databases.
Previous to her position in Rotterdam, she worked at Maastricht University and in various international organizations (IDB, UNDP, OECD), and consulted for the World Bank, UNIDO, and political foundations. Paula obtained her PhD in Public Policy and Policy Analysis at the United Nations University-MERIT (Maastricht, NL). She also taught various courses in public economics, econometrics and public policy analysis.
Cieślak, B., Nagler, P. & Oort, F. van (2023). Regional capital no more. How the reform of the territorial government has marginalized Polish middle-sized cities (Tinbergen Institute discussion paper ; TI 2023-001/VIII). Rotterdam/Amsterdam: Tinbergen Institute. Retrieved from https://papers.tinbergen.nl/23001.pdfOpens external
Oort, F. van, Nagler, P. and Lionggo, I. (2021). Structural change, labour markets and urban economic policy in emerging economies. In J. Fransen, M. P. van Dijk and J. Edelenbos (Eds.) Urban planning, management and governance in emerging economies : paradigm shifts (pp. 57-79). Chelmsford: Edward Elgar.
Nagler, P. and W. Naudé (2018). Nonfarm enterprises in rural Africa. In L. Christiaensen and L. Demery (Eds.). Agriculture in Africa : telling myths from factsOpens external (Directions in Development - Agriculture and Rural Development) (pp. 75-84). Washington: World Bank.
Nagler, P. and W. Naudé (2017). Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Sub-Saharan Africa : new empirical evidence. Food Policy, 67 (February) 175-191. (First online 24 October 2016) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.019Opens external
Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2015). Industrialization, innovation, inclusionOpens external (UNU-MERIT Working Paper ; 2015-043). Maastricht: United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
Nagler, P. and W. Naudé (2014). Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa : new empirical evidence (Policy Research Working Paper ; 7066). Washington: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20512Opens external
Nagler, P. (2013). How unemployment insurance savings accounts affect employment duration : evidence from Chile. IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2, 9. (First online 22 November 2013) https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9020-2-9Opens external
