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Thank You, Infidels! Social Welfare and Islamic State Recruitment
This paper is motivated by reports about Islamic State fighters having received welfare payments from... Read More
The Weight of History: A Natural Experiment in Higher Education
Using a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) and publicly available datasets, this study measures the effect... Read More
Political Violence and Youth Bulges
This paper investigates the relationship between domestic political conflict and youth bulges in economically stagnant... Read More
Son preference and child under nutrition in the Arab countries: is there a gender bias against girls?
Although son preference has been demonstrated in the MENA region with different manifestations and at... Read More
Policy choices in an era of intangibles- where to start?
Based on the author’s keynote talk at the ERF’s 25th anniversary conference in Kuwait City... Read More
The impact of militarization on gender inequality and female labor force participation
Feminist research has revealed significant relationships between militarization, patriarchy, and gender inequality. This paper takes that... Read More
Intimate partner violence against women in Turkey: evidence from a national household survey
According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), one in three women has experienced physical... Read More
The Impacts of Oil Price Shocks on Tourism Receipts for Selected MENA Countries: Do Structural Breaks Matter?
One of the short comings in the tourism literature is that research on the oil... Read More
Are politically connected firms turtles or gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian uprising
Using an original firm-level database and utilizing the incidence of the Egyptian uprising of 2011,... Read More