Dahab Aglan

Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Dahab Aglan is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall. Her research focus is on the impact of conflict and climate shocks on the welfare and integration of displaced populations, especially in settings with ethno-religious diversity. Dahab obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of London – Royal Holloway, where she also obtained her BSc. and MSc. in Economics, as well as an MSc in Finance in which she ranked first. Her doctoral thesis was titled Essays on Forced Displacement and Conflict in the Middle East. She completed a PhD visiting at Université Paris-Dauphine in France. Her ongoing projects include empirically evaluating the nationwide camp closure policy across Iraq and the welfare of conflict-displaced populations, an intervention targeting the livelihoods of climate-displaced women in Mosul and a field experiment on the integration of conflict-displaced populations in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dahab’s research interests are in development economics with focus on migration, Iraq and the Middle East.