Professor Yanos Zylberberg
PhD(P.S.E)
Expertise
My primary research interests are: labor economics, urban economics, economic history and development. A recent project consists in digitising information from historical maps in order to understand urban development since 1880.
Current positions
Professor of Economics
School of Economics
Contact
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Biography
A string of misunderstandings led me to a PhD in Economics, and I had to accept a research job to keep up appearances.
Research interests
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8113 British Academy TGC\200149 - Dr Yanos Zylberberg
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
01/01/2021 to 31/12/2022
8113 ESRC ES/V013602/1 (MAPHIS) - Dr Yanos Zylberberg
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
01/01/2021 to 31/12/2023
Floods and livelihoods in the Central Highlands--Connecting
Principal Investigator
Description
This proposal will inform the production of a comprehensive index of socio-economic vulnerability to flood risk, aggregated from household-specific exposure, in a typical DAC country on the path to structural…Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
02/03/2020 to 31/07/2020
MAPHIS: Mapping History—What Historical Maps Can Tell Us About Urban Development
Principal Investigator
Description
The proposed research develops novel, interdisciplinary methods that facilitate the extraction of information from historical maps to study the evolution of land use patterns and urban growth. The output will…Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
01/01/2020 to 31/07/2020
Strikes and lock-outs in Victorian England (1888-1914)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EconomicsDates
01/04/2017 to 31/03/2018
Thesis supervisions
Centres of Gravity
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
15/02/2024Assessing LISFLOOD-FP with the next-generation digital elevation model FABDEM using household survey and remote sensing data in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Migrants and firms
American Economic Review
Urban economics in a historical perspective
Regional Science and Urban Economics
A Menu of Insurance Contracts for the Unemployed
Review of Economic Studies
East Side Story
Journal of Political Economy
Teaching
I teach Mathematics for Economics, a compulsory course for first year students in Economics, and Macroeconomics 2 at the MRes level.
