Areas of Interest:

• Energy
• Environment and Climate Change
• Development Economics & Policy Evaluation
• Environmetrics
• Labor Economics
• Migration

Education:

• PhD in Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University, 2013 - 2019
• MSc in Statistics (Econometrics), FEPS, Cairo University, 2008-2011
• BSc Statistics (Economics), FEPS, Cairo University, 2003-2007

Experience:

• Research Fellow, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Université & Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne – CNRS, 2025 - Present
• Adjunct Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Université - Cairo University, 2023 - Present
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, The American University in Cairo (AUC), 2023 - Present
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, LSE, University of London, Cairo Campus, 2023 - 2024
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), 2022 - Present

Latest Publications:

• Abdelfattah, Yasmine, Adnan, Wifag, Sangwan, Nikita (Accepted/In press), “Global Freelancing Platforms, Signaling, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Jordan”, Journal of Development Economics.
• Abdelfattah, Yasmine, Adnan, Wifag, Sangwan, Nikita (2025). "Global Freelancing Platforms, Signaling and Labor Market Outcomes." AEA RCT Registry. April 03. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.15644-1.0
• Elshal, Amira, Mostafa, Eman, Rostom, Nada, Abdelfattah, Yasmine (2024), “Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19”, The European Journal of Development Research. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-024-00654-9
• Abou-Ali, Hala, Hawash, Ronia, Ali, Rahma, Abdelfattah, Yasmine and Hassan, Megahed (2022), " Is it getting too hot to work? Investigating the impact of climate change on labour supply in the MENA region”, Applied Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2107165