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Inequality of Opportunity in Child Health in the Arab World and Turkey
Health and nutrition during a child’s first years are crucial to his/her health and wellbeing... Read More
Return Migration and Entrepreneurship in Morocco
This paper contributes to a small but rapidly growing literature concerned with the potentially substantial... Read More
Willingness to Pay for Improving Land and Water Conditions for Agriculture in Damietta, Egypt
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved land and water quality conditions on agricultural... Read More
Trends and Differentials in Jordanian Marriage Behavior: Marriage Timing, Spousal Characteristics, Household Structure and Matrimonial Expenditures
This paper employs the 2010 Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey to analyze patterns in marriage... Read More
Egypt Airline Passengers Market: Competition and Performance
In the present era of dramatic changes in the air transport services sector, this paper... Read More
Demographics, Labor Force Participation and Unemployment in Jordan
To better understand the demographic trends in Jordan, it is useful to relate these trends... Read More
Immigration, Emigration and the Labor Market in Jordan
This paper uses a new and original dataset, the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey of... Read More
Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an... Read More
The Political Economy of Public Sector Employment in Resource Dependent Countries
In this paper, we propose a political economic explanation for the well documented difference in... Read More