I earned my PhD in Economics in 2008 from University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Currently, I work as associate professor of Economics at Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine. Between 2018 and 2020, I worked as a director of research at Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute-MAS. My research interests and expertise cover development economics, policy evaluation, labor economics, and conflict economics. During the past years, I published a number of papers in international refereed journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Labor Economics, Papers in Regional Science, and Annals of Regional Science, among other journals.