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
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
"Does external debt drive inflation in Sudan: evidence from symmetric and asymmetric ARDL approaches" Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 2023.
"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.
"Does Precarious Employment Ruin Youth Health and Marriage? Evidence from Egypt Using Longitudinal Data” International Journal of Development Issues, 2020. (Scimago: 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. (Scimago: Q3)
"Does Public Health Insurance Increase Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt?" Journal of International Development, 2019. (Scimago: Q2)
"Does Income Inequality Increase Violence Against Women? An Instrumental Variable Approach" The European Journal of Development Research, 2019. (Scimago: Q1)
"Does maternal employment affect child nutrition status? New evidence from Egypt" Oxford Development Studies, 2019. (Scimago: Q2)
"Child nutritional status in Egypt: a comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic determinants using a quantile regression approach" Journal of biosocial science, 2019. (Scimago: Q2)
“Socioeconomic Inequalities in Infant Mortality in Egypt: Analyzing Trends between 1995 and 2014” Social Indicators Research, 2018. (Scimago: Q1)
“Economic Growth and Child Malnutrition in Egypt: New Evidence from National Demographic and Health Survey” Social Indicators Research, 2018. (Scimago: Q1)
“Socioeconomic Inequalities in Maternity Care: Evidence From Egypt, Jordan and Yemen” Journal of International Development, 2017. (Scimago: Q2)
“Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis” Health Economics Review, 2016. (Scimago: Q2)
"Catastrophic Economic Consequences of Healthcare Payments: Effects on Poverty Estimates in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine" Economies,2015. (Scimago: Q2)
"Inflation and inflation uncertainty revisited: Evidence from Egypt". Economies, 3(3), 128-146. (Scimago: Q2)
"Who benefits from public healthcare subsidies in Egypt?." Social Sciences, 2015. (Scimago: Q2)
“The earnings of immigrants and the quality adjustment of immigrant human capital” IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2013. (Scimago: Q1)
"Disparities in health care utilization by smoking status in Canada." International Journal of public health, 2013. (Scimago: Q1)
“The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption” Health Economics Review, 2011. (Scimago: Q2)
"Cigarette taxes and smoking participation: evidence from recent tax increases in Canada." International journal of environmental research and public health, 2011. (Scimago: Q1)
"Psychosocial working conditions and the utilization of health care services". BMC Public Health, 2011. (Scimago: Q1)
Teaching
- ECON101 Introduction to Microeconomics
- ECON102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
- ECON281 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I
- ECON282 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory I
- ECON350 The Economics of Public Expenditures
- ECON384 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory II
- ECON385 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory II
- ECON399 Introductory Econometrics
- ECON422 International Payments
Courses
EASIA 338 - Topics in Chinese Studies
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: one of EASIA, or consent of Department.
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 102 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
Employment, inflation, international payments, monetary policy, and fiscal policy, all in the Canadian economy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or consent of Department. 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.
SOC 210 - Introduction to Social Statistics
Statistical reasoning and techniques used by sociologists to summarize data and test hypotheses. Topics include describing distributions, cross-tabulations, scaling, probability, correlation/regression and non-parametric tests. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or consent of instructor. Note: This course is intended primarily for students concentrating in Sociology