Aamer S. Abu-Qarn
Biography

Prof. Aamer S. Abu-Qarn

Economics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel
Phone: +972-8-6472296
Fax: +972-8-6472941
Email: aamer@bgu.ac.il

• B.A., 1990, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, with honors.
• M.A., 1995, Ben-Gurion University, Department of Economics, with high honors.
  Title of thesis: "Macroeconomic Prediction Model of the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
• Ph.D., 2002, Northeastern University, Department of Economics, Boston, MA.
  Title of dissertation: "Three Empirical Essays on Economic Growth in the MENA Region"

• 4/2022-present, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University
• 4/2010-3/2022, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University
• 9/2012-8/2013, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
• 10/2004-3/2010, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University
• 10/2002-9/2004, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University
• 9/1998-6/2002, Instructor, Department of Economics, Northeastern University
• 9/1992-8/1995, Economics and Accounting Teacher, Eksifa High School, Eksifa

• Research grant, The Effects of Public Transportation Penetration into Arab Communities in Israel on Labor Market, Education, and Health Outcomes, National Insurance Institute, 138,830 NIS, 2018.
• Research grant, The Effects of Public Transportation Penetration into Arab Communities in Israel on Labor Market, Education, and Health Outcomes, The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, 40,000 NIS, 2018.
• Research grant, The Effects of Public Transportation Penetration into Arab Communities in Israel on Employment and Education, Heth Academic Center for Research of Competition and Regulation, 25,000 NIS, 2018.
• Research grant, Does it pay to study? Returns to schooling of Arabs in Israel, Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, $7000, 2012.
• Research grant, Labor force participation of Bedouin females, Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, $4000, 2009.
• "MA'OF" fellowship by the Council for Higher Education in Israel and the Kahanoff foundation for the period October 2004 - October 2007.
• Post-doctoral Grant from the Council for Higher Education in Israel, March 2003 - March 2004.
• Recipient of the Morris A. Horowitz Excellence in Economics award, 2000, Economics Department, Northeastern University.
• The Israeli Arab Scholarship Program (IASP) Scholarship, provided by the United States Information Agency (USIA), June 1995 - July 1997, full funding of graduate studies in the USA.
• The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel-Aviv University Award for M.A. thesis proposal, 1994.
• Most outstanding graduate student in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (The Wolf Fund), Ben-Gurion University, May 1991.