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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
Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the... Read More
Winners and Losers in Industrial Policy 2.0: An evaluation of the impacts of the Tunisian Industrial Upgrading Program
Large scale business subsidies tied to national industrial development promotion pro-grams are notoriously difficult to... Read More
A Decade of Competition Policy in Arab Countries: A De jure and De facto Assessment
Despite its several benefits, competition policy seems to lack the attention it deserves in terms... Read More