Urban Lab

Urban Lab is an empirically oriented research initiative at Uppsala University, run in cooperation between the Department of Economics and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research.

Urban Facts

Politicians have more high-income neighbours

About Urban Lab

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Learn more about Urban Lab

Ongoing projects

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Research projects connected to Urban Lab

Urban Lab researcher winner of the 2020 IPUMS Research Award

Raoul van Maarseveen's article “The Effect of Urban Migration on Educational Attainment: Evidence from Africa” has been selected as the 2020 winner of the IPUMS Research Award.

Read about the award and Raoul's research here.

Funding

Urban Lab is a collaboration between Uppsala municipality and Uppsala University.

Last modified: 2021-11-09