Research

Book

• Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries: Opportunities and Challenges, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001 (with D. Lam), e-version of the book is publically accessible here.

Journal articles

• The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education, Journal of Development Economics, Forthcoming, accepted in April 2023 (with A. Shirshikova). A VoxDev Podcast Episode on the paper here. 

• Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20(6), 2226-2270 (with O. Bandiera, A. Heil, and A. Smurra). A VoxDev Summary Article on the paper here. 

• Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36(1), 81-100 (with O. Bandiera, A. Smurra, and C. Zipfel).

• Empowering Women under Social Constraints:  Evidence from a Field Intervention in Rural Egypt, Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, (with S. Namoro and R. Roushdy).

• Migration Shocks and Housing: Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan, Journal of Housing Economics, 2021, 35, 101761 (with I. Al-Hawarin and R. Assaad).

• Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes, European Economic Review, 2020, 123, 103394 (with A. Akay, and O. Bargain).

• Political Change and Informality, Economics of Transition, 2019, 27(1), 31-66 (with J. Wahba).

• Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labor Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 150, 277-294 (with A. de Grip, D. Fouarge, and R. Montizaan).

• Terrorism and the Integration of Muslim Immigrants, Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(1), 45-67 (with A. de Grip).

• Computer Use, Job Tasks, and the Part-Time Pay Penalty, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(1), 58-82 (with A. de Grip and D. Fouarge).

Working papers

• Less School (Costs), More (Female) Education? Lessons from Egypt Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling, IZA DP No. 13402 (with O. Marie).

• Terrorism, Mental Health, Risky Behaviors and Human Capital: Evidence from Iraq, ERF WP No. 1440.

• Job Counseling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with A. Osman), short-term report here.

• Who are the Radical Muslims? (with S. Ayhan).

 Work in progress

• Jobs, Training, and Irregular Migration: a Field Experiment (with B. Crépon). 

• Migrants and Well-Being of Natives: What is the Role of Religion and Terror? (with A. Akay, O. Bargain, and C. Giulietti).

• Labor Supply Adjustments to Work-Related Stress (with T. Dohmen and D. Fouarge).

• Daughters and Empowerment of Women (with D. Rodriguez).

• The Long-Term Impact of Terror on Muslims' Labor Market Outcomes (with C. Zimpelmann).

• Terrorism, Investment in Human Capital, and Gender Inequalities: Evidence from Iraq. 

• Family Structure and Return Migration.

Book chapters & policy reports

• Labour Market Effects of COVID-19 in Developing Countries and Policy Response, (with O. Bandiera), G2LM|LIC Synthesis Paper 12, May 2021.

• The Global Jobs Database: A New Dataset on Labour Markets of Developing Countries, (with O. Bandiera), G2LM|LIC Policy Brief 41, May 2021.

• Covid19 and the Labor Markets: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities. Al-Ahram Democracy (in Arabic), 79, 55-60. July 2020.

• Housing and Living Conditions in Jordan, in The Jordanian Labor Market Between Fragility and Resilience, Caroline Krafft and Ragui Assaad (Eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

• Informality during Political Turmoil: Evidence from the Arab Spring (with J. Wahba), The Forum Policy Portal, Feb. 2018.

• Empowering Young Women through Business and Vocational Training: Evidence from Rural Upper Egypt (with R. Roushdy), IFAD/ILO Impact Brief Series 10, 2018. 

• Policy report on “Behavioral Economics and Saudization” for the World Bank and Ministry of Labor of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (with J. Feld), March 2012.