Contact

Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Phone: +49 431 8814471
Email: toman.mahmoud@ifw-kiel.de

Research Interests

International Migration, Development Economics, Behavioral Economics, Political Economy

Work in Progress

Emigration and Political Change. With Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Trebesch

Overconfidence and Risk Management of Ethiopian Farmers. With Ulrike Dörr and Ulrich Schmidt

Self-assessment, Performance, and Happiness. With Ulrike Dörr and Ulrich Schmidt

Identifying the Motives of Migrant Philanthropy. With Matthias Lücke and Christian Peuker

Diaspora Donations for Development: Evidence from the Philippines. With Victoria Licuanan and Andreas Steinmayr

Working Papers

The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Post-war Germany. With Sebastian Braun

Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education? With Dennis Görlich and Christoph Trebesch

Orphanhood and Critical Periods in Children's Human Capital Formation: Long-Run Evidence from North-Western Tanzania. With Jens Hagen and Natalia Trofimenko

Does AIDS-Related Mortality Reduce Per-Capita Household Income? Evidence from Rural Zambia. With Rainer Thiele

Bananas, Oil, and Development: Examining the Resource Curse and Its Transmission Channels by Resource Type. With Jann Lay

Publications

The Economics of Human Trafficking and Labour Migration: Micro-Evidence from Eastern Europe. With Christoph Trebesch. Journal of Comparative Economics, 38(2): 173-188, 2010.

Is Corporate Aid Targeted to Poor and Deserving Countries? A Case Study of Nestlé's Aid Allocation. With Laura Metzger and Peter Nunnenkamp. World Development, 38(3): 228-243, 2010.

Shocks, Structural Change, and the Patterns of Income Diversification in Burkina Faso. With Jann Lay and Ulf Narloch. African Development Review, 21(1): 36-58, 2009.

Few Opportunities, Much Desperation: The Dichotomy of Non-agricultural Activities and Inequality in Western Kenya. With Jann Lay and George Michuki M'Mukaria. World Development, 36(12): 2713-2732, 2009.

Policy Papers

Migration and Development: More Opportunities than Risks. With Marcus Böhme and Rainer Thiele, 2011

Seven Ways to Fight Human Trafficking. With Christoph Trebesch, 2010

International Labor Migration and Remittances Beyond the Crisis: Towards Development-friendly Migration Policies. With Aslihan Arslan, Alexandra Effenberger and Matthias Lücke, Kiel Policy Brief 10, 2009

Emigration and Skills Shortages in Moldova. With Christoph Trebesch, prepared for World Bank, 2009

Labor Migration and Remittances in Moldova: Is the Boom Over? With Matthias Lücke and Andreas Steinmayr, prepared for International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2009

HIV/AIDS and Pro-Poor Growth in sub-Saharan Africa. With Tony Barnett, Rainer Thiele and Daphne Topouzis, prepared for German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 2008

Tools of Impact Evaluation - A Short Introduction for Practitioners (in German). With Jann Lay and Rainer Thiele, prepared for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), 2007

Patterns and Trends of Migration and Remittances in Moldova. With Matthias Lücke and Pia Pinger, prepared for International Organization for Migration (IOM), 2007