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2017: Regional Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis

Mesbah Sharaf and Ahmed Rashad

2017: Diaspora Networks as a Bridge between Civilizations

Jackline Wahba, Ishac Diwan and Michele Tuccio

2017: On the Decomposition and Dynamics of Inequality of Opportunities: A Special Focus on Early Childhood Health and Nutrition in Tunisia

Amara Mohamed and Hatem Jemmali

2017: Firm Financing and Growth in the Arab Region

Soha Ismail, Juan Lorente and Sergio Schmukler

2017: Collusion Detection in Public Procurement with Limited Information

Bedri Tas

2017: How Gender Biased Are Female-Headed Household Transfers in Egypt?

Lobna Abdellatif, Mohamed Ramadan and Sarah Elbakry

2017: The Effect of Mothers’ Employment on Youth Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence From Egypt

May Gadallah, Maia Sieverding and Rania Roushdy

2017: Maghreb Rural-Urban Migration: The Movement to Morocco’s Towns

Jamal Bouoiyour, Amal Miftah and Christophe Muller

2017: The Role of Housing Markets in the Timing of Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Dominique Rolando

2017: Employment’s Role in Enabling and Constraining Marriage in the Middle East and North Africa

Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad

2017: The Microeconomic Impact of Political Instability: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

Samer Matta

2017: Gender and Labor Markets in Tunisia’s Lagging Regions

Lucia Hanmer, Edinaldo Tebaldi and Dorte Verner

2017: Education, Earnings and Returns to Schooling in Tunisia

Imed Limam and Abdelwahab Ben Hafaiedh

2017: The Impact of the Action Plan For Promoting Employment and Combating Unemployment on Employment Informality in Algeria

Ali Souag and Ragui Assaad

2017: Firm Productivity, Technology and Export Status, What Can We Learn from Egyptian Industries?

Mohamed Chaffai and Patrick Plane

2017: In Search of A New Development Model For Tunisia: Assessing the Performance of the Offshore Regime

Leila Baghdadi, Sonia Ben Kheder and Hassen Arouri

2017: The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy in Arab Resource- Rich Economies

Adeel Malik

2017: Fiscal- Monetary Interdependence and Exchange Rate Regimes in Oil Dependent Arab Economies

Ibrahim Elbadawi, Mohamed Goaied and Moez Ben Tahar

2017: Self-Rated Health and Primary Care Utilization: Is Selection into Healthcare Endogenously Determined?

Firat Bilgel and Burhan Karahasan

2017: Export Concentration and Competition: Does the Firms Type Matter?

Aya Ahmed and Chahir Zaki

2017: Marriage Outcomes and Women Empowerment After Marriage: A Three Countries Story

Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan

2017: Did the Cost of Living Rise Faster for the Rural Poor?

Shireen AlAzzawi

2017: Cash Transfers and Labor Supply: Evidence from A Large-Scale Program in Iran

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Mohammad Mostafavi-Dehzooei

2017: The Composition of Labor Supply and Unemployment in Tunisia

Ragui Assaad, Samir Ghazouani and Caroline Krafft

2017: Climate Change, Gender, Decision-Making Power, and Migration into the Saiss Region of Morocco

Dina Najjar, Boubaker Dhehibi, Aden Aw-Hassan and Abderrahim Bentaibi

2017: The Effect of Patriarchal Culture on Women’s Labor Force Participation

Ishac Diwan and Irina Vartanova

2017: Determinants and Impact of Households’s Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure in Sudan: Evidence From Urban and Rural Population

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla and Mohammed Ali

2017: Labor Demand in Tunisia: Size, Structure and Determinants

Sofiane Ghali and Habib Zitouna

2017: Public-Private Wage Disparities, Employment and Labor Market Segmentation in Tunisia

AbdelRahmen El Lahga and Ines Bouassida

2017: Child Labor and Schooling in Tunisia

Donia Bouhlila and Mouez Soussi

2017: Migration Patterns and Labor Market Outcomes in Tunisia

Anda David and Mohamed Marouani

2017: Egypt’s Government Spending Multiplier: Its Size and Determinants

Sara Alnashar

2017: Regional Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan and Yemen: A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis

Mesbah Sharaf and Ahmed Rashad

2017: Women in the Tunisian Labor Market

Rim Mouelhi and Mohamed Goaied

2017: What Drive Regional Economic Inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence From Unconditional Quantile Decomposition Analysis

Hatem Jemmali

2017: Estimating Labor Demand Elasticities and Elasticities of Substitution in Egyptian Manufacturing Sector: A Firm Level Static Analysis

Hanan Nazier

2017: Marriage, Fertility, and Women’s Agency in Tunisia

Ragui Assaad, Samir Ghazouani and Caroline Krafft

2017: Determinants and Macroeconomic Impact of Parallel Market For Foreign Exchange in Sudan

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla

2017: Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?

Jackline Wahba and Nelly El-Mallakh

2017: Targeting Debt in Lebanon: A Structural Macro-Econometric Model

Salim Araji, Vladimir Hlasny and Vito Intini

2017: Standards and Market Power: Evidence from Tunisia

Hendrik Kruse, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Leila Baghdadi

2017: To Bank or Not to Bank: The Determination of Cash Holdings and Lines of Credit

Ghada Tayem

2017: The Impact of Major Oil, Financial and Uncertainty Factors on Sovereign CDS Spreads: Evidence from GCC, Other Oil-Exporting Countries and Regional Markets

Nader Naifar, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad and Shawkat Hammoudeh

2017: Economic Voting Under Single-Party and Coalition Governments: Evidence From The Turkish Case

Ali Akarca

2017: The U.S. Oil Supply Revolution and the Global Economy

Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

2017: Monetary Policy and Economic Performance in Resource Dependent Economies

Raimundo Soto and Bassem Kamar

2017: Young People’s Gender Role Attitudes Over the Transition to Adulthood in Egypt

May Gadallah, Rania Roushdy and Maia Sieverding

2017: Young Gazelles and Aging Turtles: Understanding the Determinants of Employment Creation in the Labor Market in MENA Countries

Hassan Aly, Yousef Daoud, Amr Ragab and Ayhab Saad

2017: Information and Communication Technologies and Employment Generation in Turkish Manufacturing Industry

Yilmaz Kilicaslan and Ünal Töngür

2017: The Effect of Public Sector on Private Jobs: Evidence From the Occupied West Bank

Belal Fallah

2017: Oil, Volatility and Institutions: Cross-Country Evidence From Major Oil Producers

Kamiar Mohaddes, Amany El-Anshasy and Jeffrey Nugent

2017: The Political Economy of A Sector in Crisis: Industrial Policy and Political Connections in the Egyptian Automotive Industry

Amirah El-Haddad, Jeremy Hodge and Nizar Manek

2017: The Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket: A Proposal for Exchange Rates in Oil-exporting Countries to Accommodate Trade Shocks Automatically

Jeffrey Frankel

2017: The Impact of the Fracking Boom on Arab Oil Producers

Lutz Kilian

2017: The Regional Impact of Trade Liberalization on Households in Egypt, 1999-2012

Jérémie Gignoux and Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann

2017: The Economic Response of Rural Areas to Local Supply Shock: Evidence From Palestine

Belal Fallah

2017: Historical Legacies and Gender Attitudes in the Middle East

Veronica Kostenko, Eduard Ponarin, Musa Shteiwi and Olga Strebkova

2017: Estimating Poverty and Inequality in the Absence of Consumption Data: An Application to the Middle East and North Africa

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Hanan Nazier, Racha Ramadan, Atiyeh Vahidmanesh and Sami Zouari

2017: Is Internal Migration A Way to Cope With Climate Change? Evidence From Egypt

Adel Ben Youssef, Mohamed Arouri and Cuong Nguyen

2017: Do Migrants Transfer Political and Cultural Norms to Their Origin Country? Some Evidence From Some Arab Countries

Jamal Bouoiyour and Amal Miftah

2017: The Arab Spring and the Employability of Youth: Early Evidence From Egypt

Irene Selwaness and Rania Roushdy

2017: On the Decomposition of Economic Inequality: A Methodology and an Application to Tunisia

Hatem Jemmali and Amara Mohamed

2017: Capital Raising in the Arab World

Soha Ismail, Juan Lorente and Sergio Schmukler

2017: Access to Healthcare, Utilization and Health Outcomes in Turkey

Burhan Karahasan and Firat Bilgel

2017: Reforms and physicians’ status in Turkey: Distribution of OOP Health Expenditures for Physicians and Hospitals

Burcay Erus

2017: Evaluation de l’impact de l’Initiative Nationale pour le Développement Humain (INDH) sur la pauvreté en milieu rural au Maroc, une étude en enquête panel de ménages

Mohamed Benkassmi, Touhami Abdelkhalek and Fouzia Ejjanoui

2017: The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Irene Selwaness

2017: Rural-Urban Migration and Income Disparity in Tunisia: A Decomposition Analysis

Amara Mohamed, Hatem Jemmali and Mohamed Ayadi

2017: Does Classroom Gender Composition Affect School Dropout?

Bulent Anil, Duygu Guner, Tuba Toru Delibaşı and Gokce Uysal

2017: Transitions in Late-Life Living Arrangements and Socio-economic Conditions of the Elderly in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

Aurora Angeli and Marco Novelli

2017: Does Public Health Insurance Increase Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt

Mesbah Sharaf, Ahmed Rashad and Elhussien Mansour

2017: Public Value Perspective for Gender Budgeting: Evidence from Egypt

Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Zaky and Mohamed Ramadan

2017: The Nexus Between Informal Credit and Informal Labor for Micro and Small Enterprises in Egypt: Sources of Finance and Enterprises Informality: Evidence from MSE Surveys in Two Governorates

Mohamed El Komi and Mona Said