Gradstein, M., and Ishak, P. W. (2025). We Don't Need No Education: The Effect of Income Shocks on Human Capital in Africa. Journal of Human Capital, forthcoming. [link to journal] [CEPR Working Paper | Other version]
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]
Losing My Religion (or Maybe Not): Religion and Fertility Patterns in Africa (2022) (with Mark Gradstein) submitted
Changes in Household Dynamics in South Yemen (2023), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10680 (with Alia Jane Aghajanian and Yashodhan Ghorpade)
The Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Employment Gap in Egyptian Manufacturing (2023), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10646
Vulnerability of Arab economies from concentrated trade and agriculture (with Klalid Abu-Ismail). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), 2023
World Development Challenges Report: Development from a broader lens, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), 2022
Institutions and Human Development: A panel Granger Causality Analysis (with Klalid Abu-Ismail). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), 2021
Quality of Education: Measurement and Implications for Arab States (with Klalid Abu-Ismail and Oussama Safa). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), 2021
Healthy Life Expectancy Index reveals a regional paradox (with Klalid Abu-Ismail and Oussama Safa). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), 2021
Environmental sustainability and human development: perspectives from the Arab region (with Marlene Tomaszkiewicz and Radia Sedaoui). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), 2021
"Smells Like Teen Spirit: Arab Spring and Political Aspirations" (with Rabah Arezki and Ha Nguyen)