Sami Miaari is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Labor Studies in Tel-Aviv University and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University.
He earned his Ph.D. and M.A degrees in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; He also received his B.s.c. in Mathematics and Economics from the same University.
In 2011 he joined to the Department of International Economics in the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) as a senior researcher. In 2008-2009, he was a post-doctoral fellow in Economics on the Max Weber Program at the European University Institute in Florence-Ital, and in Jan-Feb 2011, He did a Short Post-Doctoral training at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) at University of California, San Diego. He has considerable teaching experience in a variety of areas in economics, and has served as economic consultant for the World Bank, IMF and other international organizations. In addition, he is serving in a number of positions including Senior Affiliate of Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and Research Affiliate of Harry S. Truman Institute.
Dr. Miaari's research focuses on the labour economics, economic causes and consequences of conflict, including on the economic costs of political instability and the relationship between economic shocks and conflict (focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), discrimination against ethnic minorities, economic inequality, and applied econometrics. He has published a number of papers in leading journals in these areas such as in labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Among the awards he has received are the “Best Paper Award” for the best paper presented at any of Middle East Economic Association conferences between January 2016 and January 2017, the prestigious Marie Curie — Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) for career development at the University of Oxford (2017), and the Council for Higher Education in Israel (2012).
Recently, Dr. Miaari co-leaded a relatively large research project with the Overseas Development Institute, funded by Department for International Development (DFID), on the effect of economic shocks on conflict. The results of his innovative researches will serve to evaluate international policies designed for a peaceful resolution of the conflict both in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but also in the larger context of conflict resolution.
In 2010 he founded the Arab Economic Forum in Israel. The forum is dedicated to producing innovative policy research, relevant to the economic and social development of Arab Palestinian in Israel.
Sami Miaari became an IZA Fellow in August 2018.
