Abdel Ghany, Jasmin - Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

Abdel Ghany, J., Wilde, J., Dimitrova, A., Kashyap, R. and R. Muttarak (2026). Temperature and sex ratios at birth.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Abdel Ghany, J., Nur, A. A., John, B. M., Gazeley, U., Sully, B., Karra, M., Wilde, J. and L. Montana (2026). In the wake of USAID cuts, we can create a Demographic and Health Survey Program founded on more equitable data infrastructure and stronger research integrity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Abdel Ghany, J. (2024). Temperatures, conflict and forced migration in West Asia and North Africa. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research.

Wilde, J., Chen, W., Lohmann, S., and J. Abdel Ghany (2024). Digital Trace Data and Demographic Forecasting: How Well Did Google Predict the US COVID‐19 Baby Bust? Population and Development Review.

Under review & preprints

Abdel Ghany, J. and L. Andriano (2026) Environmental selection before birth: How prenatal heat exposure shapes infant mortality in Mali. (Conditional Accept Population and Development Review)

Gazeley U., Eilerts-Spinelli H., Abdel Ghany J. and A. Bonell - Ambient air pollution and the sex ratio at birth – A systematic review and narrative synthesis. OSF Preprint. (Revise & Resubmit Population and Environment)

Sivak, E., Stulp, G. et al. – Births are difficult to predict even with full population register data. (under review)

Abdel Ghany, J. – Extreme heat reduces antenatal care with highly unequal impacts across low- and middle-income countries. SocArXiv Preprint.

Works in progress

Abdel Ghany, J., Romell, E. and J. Wilde – The globalized effects of war: Maternal stress among Arab and Israeli diaspora in the U.S. during the onset of the 2023 Gaza War (manuscript in preparation)

Abdel Ghany, J. and M. Rubio-Cabañez – Extreme heat and education: Evidence from longitudinal survey data

Najarro, D. O., Abdel Ghany, J. and A. Dimitrova – Do safety nets buffer the nutritional impacts of droughts? Evidence from a longitudinal survey in Ethiopia? (manuscript in preparation)

Wilde, J., Dimitrova, A., Abdel Ghany, J. and R. Muttarak – Climate change and fertility in low- and middle-income countries: The role of ambient temperature (manuscript in preparation)

Science blogs

Abdel Ghany, J. (2026) Too Hot for Boys? New Research finds that extreme heat shifts the balance of births toward fewer males than usual. Population Reference Bureau, 4 June 2026.

Abdel Ghany, J. (2021) ‘Protecting European migrants’ rights’, Social Europe, 5 January 2021.