Contact
Full Teaching Professor, Faculty of Arts - Economics Dept
- sharaf@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Development Economics Economic Policies Health Economics Applied Econometrics
About
Education
• PhD. in Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Fall 2012.
Employment History
• Full Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, August 2019 – Present.
• Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, July 2018 – July 2019.
• Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2014 – 2018.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2012 – 2014.
Research
Web of Science Researcher Page: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/AGV-8732-2022
Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CAJneCgAAAAJ&hl=en
RePEc profile: https://ideas.repec.org/f/psh478.html
ResearchGate profile:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mesbah-Sharaf
Selected Publications
"From Crisis to Recovery: COVID-19, Macroeconomic Shocks, and the Resilience of Kuwait’s Real Estate Market." International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis. 2025 (Scopus: Q2)
"The Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Sudanese Output: An Asymmetric Analysis Using the NARDL Model." Montenegrin Journal of Economics, 2025.(Scopus: Q1)
"Estimating the Causal relationship between External Debt and Inflation in Jordan: Evidence from an ARDL and Toda-Yamamoto approaches" Journal of Financial Economic Policy. 2025. (Scopus: Q2)
"Asymmetric and Nonlinear Foreign Debt–Inflation Nexus in Brazil: Evidence from NARDL and Markov Regime Switching Approaches." Economies, 2024. (Scopus: Q1)
"Does external debt drive inflation in Sudan: evidence from symmetric and asymmetric ARDL approaches" Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 2023. (Scopus: Q2)
"Asymmetric Impact of Real Effective Exchange Rate Changes on Domestic Output Revisited: Evidence from Egypt" International Trade, Politics and Development, 2023.
"The asymmetric and threshold impact of external debt on economic growth: new evidence from Egypt," Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 2022. (Scopus: Q2)
"Does Precarious Employment Ruin Youth Health and Marriage? Evidence from Egypt Using Longitudinal Data” International Journal of Development Issues, 2020. (Scopus: Q2)
"Why are Palestinian Refugee Children Shorter than the Children of Host Community in Jordan?" Migration and Development, 2020.
"Son Preference and Child Under nutrition in the Arab Countries: Is There a Gender Bias against Girls?" Middle East Development Journal, 2019. (Scopus: Q3)
"Does Public Health Insurance Increase Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt?" Journal of International Development, 2019. (Scopus: Q2)
"Does Income Inequality Increase Violence Against Women? An Instrumental Variable Approach" The European Journal of Development Research, 2019. (Scopus: Q1)
"Does maternal employment affect child nutrition status? New evidence from Egypt" Oxford Development Studies, 2019. (Scopus: Q2)
"Child nutritional status in Egypt: a comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic determinants using a quantile regression approach" Journal of biosocial science, 2019. (Scopus: Q2)
“Socioeconomic Inequalities in Infant Mortality in Egypt: Analyzing Trends between 1995 and 2014” Social Indicators Research, 2018. (Scopus: Q1)
“Economic Growth and Child Malnutrition in Egypt: New Evidence from National Demographic and Health Survey” Social Indicators Research, 2018. (Scopus: Q1)
“Socioeconomic Inequalities in Maternity Care: Evidence From Egypt, Jordan and Yemen” Journal of International Development, 2017. (Scopus: Q2)
“Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis” Health Economics Review, 2016. (Scopus: Q2)
"Catastrophic Economic Consequences of Healthcare Payments: Effects on Poverty Estimates in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine" Economies,2015. (Scopus: Q1)
"Inflation and inflation uncertainty revisited: Evidence from Egypt". Economies, 3(3), 128-146. (Scopus: Q1)
"Who benefits from public healthcare subsidies in Egypt?." Social Sciences, 2015. (Scopus: Q2)
“The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital” IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2013. (Scopus: Q1)
"Disparities in health care utilization by smoking status in Canada." International Journal of public health, 2013. (Scopus: Q1)
“The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption” Health Economics Review, 2011. (Scopus: Q2)
"Cigarette taxes and smoking participation: evidence from recent tax increases in Canada." International journal of environmental research and public health, 2011. (Scopus: Q1)
"Psychosocial working conditions and the utilization of health care services". BMC Public Health, 2011. (Scopus: Q1)
Courses
ECON 101 - Introduction to Microeconomics
How markets and governments determine which products are produced and how income is distributed in the Canadian economy. Not open to students with credit in ECON 204.
ECON 281 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I
The theory of consumer behavior; theory of production and cost; price and output determination under competition, monopoly and other market structures. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or equivalent.