Sarah Mansour

Associate Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University

Sarah Mansour is an Associate Professor of Economics at Cairo University. She obtained her Masters and PhD degrees in Economics from Warwick University, UK. Sarah was a Carnegie Fellow at Harvard University (2016). She has also been the director of the Master Programme in Law and Economics of the Arab Region, a joint programme between Faculty of Economics and Political Science (Cairo University) and the Institute of Law and Economics (Hamburg University) from 2017 till 2019. Sarah was a Norbert–Elias fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany (2021-2022). Currently, Sarah is an Associate Professor of Economics at UAE’s National Defence College. Sarah is interested in using behavioural economics in combination with experimental methods to contribute to behaviorally-informed public policies on issues related to economic development, education, the political economy of the Egyptian transition and increasing the social capital of Egyptians. Sarah has conducted many lab experiments on student subjects and lab-in-the-field experiments on Egyptian, Syrian, Tunisian, Jordanian, Sudanese and South-Sudanese non-student subjects. She is also currently conducting a randomized control trial (RCT) on girls in the age of 14-16 years old. She has travelled to Atlanta in January 2013 to pilot her first experiment at the Experimental Economics Center at Andrew Young School for Policy Studies. On her return, she established the first experimental lab at Cairo University in March 2013. Sarah’s work has been published in international journals like European Journal of Political Economy (EJPE), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO), Democratization, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Public Choice.