Sami Miaari
Associate Professor of Economics, Henry Hart Rice, Yale University
Sami Miaari is an Associate Professor of Economics. He studies the impact of conflict on individual-level outcomes – including employment, migration, education, fertility, and health – and the economic and political determinants of violence and conflict in developing countries. His research has been published in leading academic journals including The Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of economic Behavior & Organization, Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of economics of the Household, Defense and Peace Economics, International Labour Review, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Journal of Human Resources and Oxford University Press. Ha has worked as a consultant on issues related to conflict, trade, and development for World Bank, IMF, USAID, and DFID. He received his Ph.D. in Economics and my M.A in economics from the Hebrew University in 2008.
Areas of Interest:
- Labor and human resources
- Econometrics
- Political economy
- Discrimination against ethnic minorities
- Economic inequality
Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics, Hebrew University, 2008
- M.A. in Economics, Hebrew University, graduated with distinction, 2003
- B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics, Hebrew University, 2000
Experience:
- Visiting Associate Professor, Henry Hart Rice, Yale University, Aug. 2024 - Present
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics, European University Institute, Sep 2024 - Present
- Vesting Scholar, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
- Honorary Research Fellow, College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter, May 2018-Present
Latest Publications:
- “Aid and radicalization: the case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza”. (with Amit Loewenthal and Anke Hoeffler). Journal of Development studies. (2023). 59:8, 1187-1212. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2023.2197546.
- "Massimiliano Calì, Sami H. Miaari (e). “Exports, employment and conflict: Evidence from the Second Intifada,”. (with Massimiliano Calì). * Winner, 2016, Middle East Economic Association Prize; “Best Paper Award” for the best paper presented at any of MEEA conferences between January 2016 and January 2017. (Forthcoming – Journal of Conflict Resolution).
- Sami H. Miaari, Amit Loewenthal, Wifag Adnan (f). " Socioeconomic Marginalization and Political Preferences: Evidence from Palestinian Arabs in Israel". (with Amit Loewenthal and Wifag Adnan). (Forthcoming – Acta Politica Journal).
