Dr Paula Nagler
Economic Researcher, Assistant Professor
- Email address
- nagler@ihs.nl
- Phone
- +31104081028
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. and Oort, F. van (2024). How administrative degradation affects middle-sized cities: lessons from Poland’s 1998 regional reform. Regional Studies, 58(12), 2518-2524, (First online 16 April 2024) https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2328154 |
| 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.pdf |
| Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2022). COVID-19 and the city : Did urbanized countries suffer more fatalities? Cities, 131 (December 2022) 103909. (First online 08 August 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103909 |
| Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2022). The the ossified economy : the case of Germany, 1870-2020 (IZA discussion paper ; 15607). Bonn: IZA - Institute of Labor Economics |
| 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 facts (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.2016.09.019 |
| Nagler, P. (2017). A profile of non-farm household enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNU-MERIT Working Paper ; 2017-048). Maastricht: United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). |
| Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2017). Technological innovation and inclusive growth in Germany, (Inclusive Growth for Germany ; 18). Gütersloh, Bertelsmann Stiftung. |
| Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2017). Technological innovation and inclusive growth in Germany (IZA Discussion Paper ; 11194). Bonn: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. |
| Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2015). Inclusive industrialization and entrepreneurship. Development, 58(4): 500-510. (First online 05 January 2017) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-016-0050-0 |
| Naudé, W. and Nagler, P. (2015). Industrialization, innovation, inclusion (UNU-MERIT Working Paper ; 2015-043). Maastricht: United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). |
| Nagler, P. (2015). The impact of unemployment insurance savings accounts on subsequent employment quality (UNU-MERIT Working Paper ; 2015-026). Maastricht: United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). |
| Nagler, P. and W. Naudé (2014). Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA, (IZA Discussion Paper ; 8524). Bonn: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. |
| 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/10986/20512 |
| Nagler, P. and W. Naudé (2014). Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants, (IZA Discussion Paper ; 8008). Bonn: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. |
| Nagler, P. and W. Naudé (2014). Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity (IZA Discussion Paper ; 8564). Bonn: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. |
| 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/10.1186/2193-9020-2-9 |
| Nagler, P. (2013). How unemployment insurance savings accounts affects employment duration : evidence from Chile,(UNU-MERIT Working Paper ; 2013-039). Maastricht: United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). |