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Digital Financial Inclusion and Socioeconomic Sustainability in Saudi...

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1783

Topic

O3. Technological Change, Research and Development, Intellectual Property Rights

G2. Financial Institutions and Services

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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The Effect of International Sanctions on the Size...

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1782

Topic

P3. Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

F1. Trade

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Tracing the COVID-19 Footprint: A Sectoral Interrupted Time...

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1781

Topic

E4. Money and Interest Rates

Q4. Energy

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Bridging Education and Fertility: Unraveling the Role of...

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in... Read More

Date

June, 2025

No.

1780

Topic

I14 Health and Inequality

J1. Demographic Economics

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Domestic and External Determinants of Inflation: An Empirical...

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in... Read More

Date

June, 2025

No.

1779

Topic

E3. Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

E5. Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

E6. Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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Political Violence and Youth Bulges

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in economically stagnant... Read More

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Son preference and child under nutrition in the Arab countries: is there a gender bias against girls?

Although son preference has been demonstrated in the MENA region with different manifestations and at... Read More

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Policy choices in an era of intangibles- where to start?

Based on the author’s keynote talk at the ERF’s 25th anniversary conference in Kuwait City... Read More

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The impact of militarization on gender inequality and female labor force participation

Feminist research has revealed significant relationships between militarization, patriarchy, and gender inequality. This paper takes that... Read More

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Intimate partner violence against women in Turkey: evidence from a national household survey

According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), one in three women has experienced physical... Read More

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Are politically connected firms turtles or gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian uprising

Using an original firm-level database and utilizing the incidence of the Egyptian uprising of 2011,... Read More

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Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the... Read More

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Winners and Losers in Industrial Policy 2.0: An evaluation of the impacts of the Tunisian Industrial Upgrading Program

Large scale business subsidies tied to national industrial development promotion pro-grams are notoriously difficult to... Read More

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