Leitner Program Talk: Sami Miaari

Sami Miaari is the Henry Hart Rice Visiting Associate Professor with the Leitner Program and Visiting Association Professor with the Department of Political Science. At Tel Aviv University he is a senior lecturer. He studies the impact of conflict on individual-level outcomes – including employment, migration, education, fertility, and health – and the economic and political determinants of violence and conflict in developing countries. His research has been published in leading academic journals including The Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of economic Behavior & Organization, Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of economics of the Household, Defense and Peace Economics,International Labour Review, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Journal of Human Resources and Oxford University Press. He has worked as a consultant on issues related to conflict, trade, and development for World Bank, IMF, USAID, and DFID. He received my Ph.D. in Economics and his M.A in economics from the Hebrew University in 2008 before joining Tel Aviv University.