Research

Gradstein, M., and Ishak, P. W. (2024). Mother Africa: The long run effects of income shocks on fertility. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 220, 838-849. [link to journal] [Working Paper]

Ishak, P. W., and Méon, PG (2023). A Resource-Rich Neighbour is a Misfortune: The Spatial Distribution of the Resource Curse in Brazil. Economic Development and Cultural Change 71 (4). [link to journal] [Working Paper] [Media: ULB ComRecherche | Libre Eco week-end | The Conversation]

Ishak, P. W.  (2022). Murder Nature: Weather and Violent Crime in Rural Brazil. World Development 157, 105933. [link to Journal] [Working Paper] [Media: AMSE Newsletter  |  Dialogues économiques]

Ishak, P. W., and Farzanegan, M. R. (2021). Oil Price Shocks, Protest and the Shadow Economy: Is there a Mitigation Effect? Economics & Politics 34 (2), 298-321. [link to Journal] [Working Paper] [Other version I | Other version II] [Blog]

Ishak, P. W., and Farzanegan, M. R. (2020). The Impact of Declining Oil Rents on Taxation: Does the Shadow Economy Matter? Energy Economics 92, 104925. [Link to Journal] [Working Paper] [Policy Brief]

Ishak, P. W. (2019). Autocratic Survival Strategies: Does Oil Make a Difference? Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 25 (2), 1-22. (Editor's choice) [Link to Journal]

Changes in Household Dynamics in South Yemen (with Alia Jane Aghajanian and Yashodhan Ghorpade)

World Bank Policy Research working paper No. WPS 10680, 2023

The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing (with Amirah El-Haddad)

World Bank Policy Research working paper No. WPS 10646, 2023

"We Don't Need No Education: The Effect of Natural Resource Income Shocks on Human Capital" (2020), CEPR Discussion Paper No. 19305 [Other version] (with Mark Gradstein) R&R Journal of Human Capital

"Human Capital, Self-Esteem, and Income Inequality" (with Mark Gradstein) Reject & Resubmit Journal of Economic Growth (draft available upon request)

"Losing My Religion (or Maybe Not): Religion and Fertility Patterns in Africa" (2022) (with Mark Gradstein) (new draft coming out)

"Fertility Choices during Resource Booms: Evidence from Brazil" (with Pierre-Guillaume Méon)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit: Arab Spring and Political Aspirations" (with Rabah Arezki and Ha Nguyen)