Research Interests for Amar A Hamoudi

My research interests lie in areas of intersection between empirical microeconomics, biology, and family demography. One broad theme in my research is the long reach of health and human capital consequences of events in early life; another is the function of the extended family as an economic institution. More recently, I have been developing interests around the development of, and economic returns to, nontraditional forms of human capital such as executive functioning and self-regulation.

Representative Publications

1. A. Hamoudi, Exploring the Causal Machinery behind Sex Ratios at Birth: Does hepatitis B play a role?, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 59 no. 1 (October, 2010), pp. 1-21 [abs]
2. A. Hamoudi, D. Thomas, Endogenous Coresidence and Program Incidence: Reexamining South Africa's old age pension (Submitted, October, 2011) [abs]
3. A. Hamoudi, J.B. Dowd, Housing Prices and Stress-related Health Outcomes (June, Submitted, 2011) [abs]
4. A. Hamoudi, Risk Aversion, Consumption Smoothing, and Household Partition in Rural Mexico (August, 2010)