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2018: Patrons or Clients? Measuring and Experimentally Evaluating Political Connections of Firms in Morocco and Jordan

Robert Kubinec

2018: State-Business Relations and Financial Accessibility: Explaining Firm Performance in the MENA Region

Burhan Karahasan and Firat Bilgel

2018: Global Value Chain Participation and Prospects for Local Upgrading in the Egyptian-Chinese Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone

Safa Joudeh

2018: The Nexus Between Business-Investment Climate and Firm Performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

2018: Sources of Heterogeneity in Labor Productivity and Total Factor Productivity in Egyptian Manufacturing

Abeer Elshennawy and Mohamed Bouaddi

2018: Youth Vulnerability in Egypt and Jordan: Dimensions and Determinants

Shireen Al Azzawi and Vladimir Hlasny

2018: Are the Credit Rating Agencies Biased Against MENA Countries?

A. Talha Yalta and Yasemin Yalta

2018: The Political Economy of Business Elites in Tunisia: Actors, Strategies and Identities

Mohamed Oubenal

2018: Impact of Informal Job-search on Wages for University Graduates in Egypt and Jordan

Obbey Elamin

2018: State Business Relations and the Dynamics of Job Flows in Egypt and Turkey

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

2018: Global Value Chains and Business Environment: Which Factors Do Really Matter?

Marion Dovis and Chahir Zaki

2018: Productivity, Structural Change and Skills Dynamics in Tunisia and Turkey

Gunes Asik, Mohamed Marouani, Michelle Marshalian and Ulas Karakoc

2018: A Multi-Dimensional Measure of Well-being among Youth: The Case of Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon

Nisreen Salti, Jad Chaaban, Alexandra Irani and Rima Al Mokdad

2018: Price Synchronicity, Inter-Firm Networks, and Business Groups in the Middle East and North Africa

Michael Siemon

2018: Productivity and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from Firms in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

2018: Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Aysıt Tansel, Halil Keskin and Zeynel Ozdemir

2018: Social Security Entitlement in Maghreb Countries: Who is Excluded? Who is not Interested?

Walid Merouani, Claire El Moudden and Nacer-Eddine Hammouda

2018: Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Tunisia: Dual cut-off method and Fuzzy Sets approach

Khaled Nasri and Besma Belhadj

2018: Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Maia Sieverding, Caroline Krafft, Nasma Berri, Caitlyn Keo and Mariam Sharpless

2018: Growth and Environmental Degradation in MENA Countries: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence

Imad Moosa

2018: The Structure of Employment and Job Creation in Jordan: 2010-2016

Ragui Assaad and Colette Salemi

2018: Consumer Preferences and Market Structure in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey

Guzin Akin, Ahmet Aysan, Ezgi Özer and Levent Yildiran

2018: The Promise and Peril of Youth Entrepreneurship in MENA

Caroline Krafft and Reham Rizk

2018: Optimal Government Size and Economic Growth in Developing and MENA Countries: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Analysis

Ridha Nouira and Mohamed Kouni

2018: Financial Liquidity, Geopolitics, and Oil Prices

Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal

2018: Inequality of Opportunity in Early Childhood Development in Algeria Over Time

Touhami Abdelkhalek and Moundir Lassassi

2018: Transferts de fonds migratoires, chômage et changements démographiques entre la Tunisie et l’Europe

Hajer Habib and Ghazi Boulila

2018: Devaluation: Is it Contractionary or Expansionary to Economic Sectors? The Case of Egypt

Nada Shokry and Mohamed Bouaddi

2018: Does Foreign Aid Promote Economic Growth in Sudan? Evidence from ARDL Bounds Testing Analysis

Mohammed Ali, Manal Mahagoub Elshakh and Ebaidalla Ebaidalla

2018: Firms’ Lifecycle under Conflict-Related Mobility Restrictions in Palestine: Evidence from Establishment Censuses

Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen Al Azzawi

2018: The Economics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Neighboring Countries. The Case of Lebanon

Anda David, Mohamed Marouani, Charbel Charbel and Björn Nilsson

2018: Trade Openness: An Effective tool for Poverty Alleviation or an Instrument for Increasing Poverty Severity?

Ahmed Ezzat

2018: Assessing the Intra-Arab Trade Integration and Potential: Evidence from Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla and Mohammed Ali

2018: On the Trade-off Between Size, Sustainability and Social Outcome of the Microfinance Institutions: A Two Stages Bootstrapped DEA Approach

Mohamed Mekki Ben Jemaa and Sahar Obey

2018: Mixed Market Structure, Competition and Market Size: How Does Product Mix Respond?

Aya Elewa

2018: Time-varying Response of Treasury Yields to Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from the Tunisian Bond Market

Lassaâd Mbarek, Hardik Marfatia and Sonja Juko

2018: Trade Policy in a Sovereign Palestinian State: What are the Options in a Final Settlement?

Johanes Agbahey, Khalid Siddig, Harald Grethe and Jonas Luckmann

2018: Political Determinants of Government Structure and Economic Performance in Turkey since 1950

Ali Akarca

2018: Sir! I’d Rather Go to School, Sir!

Mahdi Majbouri

2018: Female Labor in Egyptian Manufacturing Sector: The Demand Side Story

Hanan Nazier

2018: Firm Productivity and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Egyptian Data

Karim Badr, Reham Rizk and Chahir Zaki

2018: Trade Policy and Input Liberalization: The Effect on Egyptian Firms’ Productivity

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Mona Said and Chahir Zaki

2018: Job Creation or Labor Absorption? An Analysis of Private Sector Job Growth in Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Shaimaa Yassin

2018: Pre – Birth Exposure to Ramadan, Height, and the Length of Gastation

Seyed Karimi

2018: Envy and the Islamic Revival: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

Maleke Fourati

2018: Fiscal Outcomes in Bahrain: Oil Price Volatility, Fiscal Institutions or Politics?

Hoda El Enbaby and Hoda Selim

2018: Economic Geography, Growth Dynamics and Human Capital Accumulation in Turkey: Evidence from Regional and Micro Data

Burhan Karahasan and Firat Bilgel

2018: Picking Winners at the Ballot Box: Votes and Local Economic Growth in Turkey

Davide Luca

2018: Structural Transformation in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia: Patterns, Drivers and Constraints

Rim Mouelhi and Monia Ghazali

2018: Oil Price Volatility, Financial Institutions and Economic Growth

Kamiar Mohaddes, Uchechukwu Jarrett and Hamid Mohtadi

2018: Chronic Illness and Labor Market Participation in Arab Countries: Evidence from Egypt and Tunisia

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla and Mohammed Ali

2018: Reforming Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies: Policy Proposals

Hoda Selim, Kamiar Mohaddes and Jeffrey Nugent

2018: Schooling Choices’ Responses to Labor Market Shocks: Evidence From a Natural Experiment

Belal Fallah and Ayhab Saad

2018: Oil Revenues Shocks and Inequality in Iran

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Tim Krieger

2018: Armed Conflict and Child Labor: Evidence from Iraq

George Naufal, Michael Malcolm and Vidya Diwakar

2018: Does it Still Pay to Go to College in Egypt? Decomposition Analysis of Wage Differentials For College and Non-College Graduates

Hatem Jemmali and Fatma El-Hamidi

2018: Does Central Bank Independence Matter in Arab Oil Exporters

Hoda Selim

2018: Do More Productive Firms Pay Workers More? Evidence from Egypt

Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad

2018: Education of Jordanians: Outcomes in a Challenging Environment

Mahmoud Hailat

2018: Time Poverty in Egypt and Tunisia: Is There A Gender Gap?

Asmaa Ezzat and Hanan Nazier

2018: Determinants of Fertility and Population Policies in MENA Countries

Mehmet Tosun and Jingjing Yang

2018: Own Account Workers in Jordan: Profile and Work Characteristics

Reham Rizk and Colette Salemi

2018: Gender Differences and Time Allocation: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt and Tunisia

Hanan Nazier and Asmaa Ezzat

2018: Financial Development and Poverty Reduction: A Study of Middle-Income Countries

Nasreddine Kaidi and Sami Mensi

2018: The Quality of Life of Youth with Disabilities in Egypt with Special Focus on Educational Achievement

Somaya El-Saadani and Soha Metwally

2018: Impact of Syrian Refugees in Jordan on Education Outcomes for Jordanian Youth

Ragui Assaad, Thomas Ginn and Mohamed Saleh

2018: Migration Shocks and Housing: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan

Ibrahim Al Hawarin, Ragui Assaad and Ahmed Elsayed

2018: Do myopia and asymmetric information matter in the demand for social insurance?

Walid Merouani, Nacer-Eddine Hammouda and Claire El Moudden

2018: The Commuting Gender Gap and Females’ Participation and Earnings in the Egyptian Labor Market

Maye Ehab Samy

2018: The Informalization of the Egyptian Economy (1998-2012): A Factor in Growing Wage Inequality?

Amirah El-Haddad and May Gadallah

2018: The Evolution of Wage Formation and Inequality in Jordan in 2010-2016

Rami Galal and Mona Said

2018: The exceptional performance of exporters: Evidence from Egyptian ?rms

Ayhab Saad

2018: Gender Diversity, Productivity, and Wages in Egyptian Firms

Rami Galal, Mona Said, Susan Joekes and Mina Sami

2018: Why are Refugee Children Shorter than the Hosting Population? Evidence from Camps Residents in Jordan

Ahmed Rashad, Mesbah Sharaf and Elhussien Mansour

2018: Does Gender Discrimination Contribute to Low Labor Force Participation of Women in Turkey? Evidence From Survey and Field Data

Binnur Balkan and Seyit Cilasun

2018: Inclusive services for youth in Cairo’s informal areas

Deena Khalil, Amr Abdelaal, Yasmin Khalafallah and Marwa Barakat

2018: The Macroeconomics of the Gold Economy in Sudan

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Kabbashi Suliman

2018: Household Asset Wealth and Female Labor Supply in MENA

Shireen Al Azzawi and Vladimir Hlasny

2018: Labor Market Policies and FDI Flows to GCC Countries

Wasseem Mina

2018: Does Precarious Employment Damage Youth Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Marriage? Evidence from Egypt Using Longitudinal Data

Ahmed Rashad and Mesbah Sharaf

2018: How to Use Oil Revenues Efficiently

Shantayanan Devarajan

2018: A Typology Analysis of Agricultural Empowerment Profiles in Rural Egypt with a Particular Focus on Women

Dina Najjar, Aymen Frija and Aman El Garhi

2018: Ethnic Discrimination in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence From Survey and Field Data

Binnur Balkan and Seyit Cilasun

2018: School-to-Work Transition in Jordan, 2010-2016

Mona Amer

2018: Housing and Living Conditions In Jordan—2010-2016

Ahmed Elsayed

2018: Impact of Refugees on Immigrants’ Labor Market Outcomes

Bilal Malaeb and Jackline Wahba

2018: Jordan’s fertility stall and resumed decline: an investigation of demographic factors

Caroline Krafft and Maia Sieverding

2018: The Dynamics of Family Formation and Women’s Work: What Facilitates and Hinders Female Employment in the Middle East and North Africa?

Irene Selwaness and Caroline Krafft

2018: Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving in or moving out?

Nelly El-Mallakh and Jackline Wahba

2018: Migration Dynamics during the Refugee Influx in Jordan

Bilal Malaeb and Jackline Wahba

2018: The Impact of Refugees on Employment and Wages in Jordan

Belal Fallah, Caroline Krafft and Jackline Wahba

2018: Services for Syrian Refugee Children and Youth in Jordan: Forced Displacement, Foreign Aid, and Vulnerability

Colette Salemi, Jay Bowman and Jennifer Compton

2018: Marriage and fertility patterns among Jordanians and Syrian refugees in Jordan

Maia Maia, Nasma Berri and Sawsan Abdulrahim

2018: Introducing the Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2016

Caroline Kraff and Ragui Assaad

2018: The Evolution of Social Security in Jordan’s Labor Market: A Critical Comparison Between Pre- and Post- 2010 Social Security Reform

Ibrahim Al Hawarin and Irene Selwaness

2018: Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Demographics, Livelihoods, Education, and Health

Caroline Krafft, Maia Sieverding, Caitlyn Keo and Colette Salemi

2018: The Composition of Labor Supply and its Evolution from 2010 to 2016 in Jordan

Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad and Caitlyn Keo

2018: Empirical Application of Collective Household Labour Supply Model in Iraq

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

2018: On the Impact of Household Asset level and Inequality on Inter-governorate Migration: Evidence from Egypt

Mohamed Arouri and Cuong Nguyen

2018: Household Asset Inequality in Turkey: How Informative is the Survey of Income and Living Conditions?

Cem Baslevent

2018: Does Education Indoctrinate? The Effect of Education on Political Preferences In Democracies and Autocracies

Ishac Diwan and Irina Vartanova

2018: Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: The Youth Crisis

Amara Mohamed, Wajih Khallouli and Faycel Zidi