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Sami Miaari
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Associate Professor  and researcher in the department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n

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Political economy, Labour economics, Economics\nof conflict, Economic costs of conflict, Economics of education, Econometrics,\nApplied microeconomics, Development economics, Individual-Level outcomes of conflict,\nHousehold welfare under conflict, Economic\/Political determinants of violence,\nDiscrimination Economic inequality, and Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Exports, Employment and Conflict: Evidence From the Second In\u200btifada<\/p>\n

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Do export shocks affect\nconflict? The evidence on this question has so far focused mainly on commodity\nprice shocks. This paper uses data from the entire export basket to examine\nwhether shocks to Palestinian exports in the second half of the 1990s affected\nthe intensity of the subsequent Palestinian uprising (\u2018Second Intifada\u2019). The analysis\nuses sector-specific changes in Chinese and global exports to instrument Palestinian\nexports to minimize potential endogeneity bias of export changes with respect\nto conflict. The findings suggest that an increase of USD 10 million in Palestinian\nexports of a sector employing 10% of the locality\u2019s private employment reduces\nthe number of Palestinians killed by Israel in that locality by 13.9 percent.\nThe paper provides evidence that these results are consistent with the\nopportunity cost mechanism of conflict participation.<\/p>\n Read <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Obstacles to labour market participation among Arab Palestinian women in Israel<\/p>\n

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Many students face various obstacles when going to school, including poor physical infrastructure and exposure to conflict. This paper investigates the costs of conflict-induced substandard infrastructure in terms of educational performance. We focus on students in the West Bank over 2000-2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through physical barriers such as checkpoints, which increase commuting costs and the likelihood of encounters with security forces. We find that the introduction of checkpoints near a school reduces the probability of passing the final high school exam by 1 percentage point and the overall score by 0.04 standard deviations. Direct encounters with checkpoints have strong negative effects on performance, suggesting that time loss due to delays or the psychological impact of encountering security personnel may be important mechanisms. <\/p>\n Read <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Obstacles on the Road to School: The Impacts of Mobility Restrictions on Educational Performance<\/p>\n

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Despite recent increases in educational attainment among Arab Palestinian women in Israel, their labour force participation rates continue to be below those of Jewish women. This study draws on data from the Israeli Labour Force Survey and Social Survey covering the period 1995\u20132016 to investigate whether this pattern can be explained by socio-economic and demographic factors, level of religiosity, human capital assets, family structure and related public policies, and early retirement. All these factors are found to affect the probability of Arab Palestinian women participating in the labour market, raising implications for labour market policies.<\/p>\n Read <\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Sami Miaari Associate Professor  and researcher in the department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University. FIELDS OF INTEREST Political economy, Labour economics, Economics of conflict, Economic costs of conflict, Economics of education, Econometrics, Applied microeconomics, Development economics, Individual-Level outcomes of conflict, Household welfare under conflict, Economic\/Political determinants of violence, Discrimination Economic inequality, and Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict. Exports, … Continue reading “Home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/samimiaari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}