Staff Biographies | Ragui Assaad

Selected Presentations

Assaad, Ragui and Fatma El-Hamidi. 2008. "Women in the Egyptian labor market: An analysis of developments from 1988 to 2006," presentation at Women, Family and Work, an International Women's Day celebration, Cairo, 6 March. (PDF)

Assaad, Ragui. 2007. "Ishraq program: Intervening before it's too late," presentation at the consultation meeting "A Focus on Out-of-school Girls in Rural Areas in Yemen," Sana'a, 13 April. (PDF)

Assaad, Ragui. 2007. "The Ishraq program in Egypt," presentation at the consultation meeting "A Focus on Out-of-school Girls in Rural Areas in Yemen," Sana'a, 13 April. (PDF)

Assaad, Ragui. 2006. “Why did economic liberalization lead to feminization of the labor force in Morocco and de-feminization in Egypt?” presentation at the MENA Development Forum, Beirut, 6–9 April.

Assaad, Ragui and Deborah Levison, with Hai Anh Dang. 2005. “How much work is too much? Thresholds in the effect of child work on schooling: The case of Egypt,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, 31 March–2 April.

Assaad, Ragui. 2004. “Poverty and family size: Disentangling the relationship,” paper presented at the Population and Poverty Seminar sponsored by the Population Council and the Center for the Study of Developing Countries, Cairo University, Cairo, 5–6 January.

Assaad, Ragui and Mona Amer. 2004. “Labor and human resource development in Egypt country profile: The road ahead for Egypt," presentation at the Egypt Country Profile Workshop, Cairo, 20 March.

Elbadawy, Asmaa, Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison, Dennis Ahlburg, and Sami Zouari. 2004. “Private and group tutoring in Egypt: Where is the gender inequality?” paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference of Economic Research Forum, Beirut, Lebanon, 14–16 December.

Yanik, Bengi and Ragui Assaad. 2004. “Women’s participation in paid work in urban Turkey: Do local demand factors matter?” paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference of Economic Research Forum, Beirut, Lebanon, 14–16 December.

Assaad, Ragui. 2003. "The Arab world, the U.S., and the impact of the Iraq war,” presentation for the Rethinking the Role of the U.S. in Iraq and the Middle East Symposium sponsored by the Minnesota Institute of Global Studies, the Department of History, and Faculty Against the War at the University of Minnesota, 20 April.

Assaad, Ragui. 2003. “The economic and political consequences of a war on Iraq,” presentation at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., 12 March.

Assaad, Ragui. 2003. “Is there a new U.S. agenda in the Middle East?” presentation for Middle East Peace Now, Minneapolis, 6 December.

Assaad, Ragui and Sami Zouari. 2003. “The timing of marriage, fertility, and female labor force participation in Morocco,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Minneapolis, 1–3 May.