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    • Citizen and Resident Satisfaction with Public Services in Qatar : And the impact on quality of life 

      Benmansour, Nada Abdelkader , [بن منصور، ندى عبد القادر] ( Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      In Qatar notable differences in public service satisfaction exist across individual state services, across nationality groupings, and across demographic categories. Among all citizens and residents, however, there is an ...
    • The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women’s Role Conflict in Qatar 

      James-Hawkins, Laurie; Qutteina, Yara; Yount, Kathryn M. ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)
      Social norms in patriarchal countries in the Middle East are changing at differing rates. In Qatar, expectations about education have shifted, and women’s participation in higher education is normative. However, women’s ...
    • SEPARATION HYPOTHESIS TESTS IN THE AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD MODEL 

      T. Le, Kien ( Oxford University Press , 2010 , Article)
      In an agricultural household model, farmers’ production decisions can be either separated or nonseparated from preferences. Since previous studies on agricultural household behavior and policy effects have shown that the ...
    • Bridging a gulf between environmental attitudes and behavior: Assessment of motivating factors for the youth in Qatar 

      Al-Ali Mustafa, Semsia ( HBKU Press , 2016 , Conference)
      To this day, there is a dearth of published research on environmental awareness, attitudes and behaviour in the Arabian Gulf, and there is no systematic data regarding the value people place on the environment. Understanding ...
    • The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier 

      Poon, Jessie P. H; Pollard, Jane; Chow, Yew Wah; Ewers, Michael ( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)
      The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers ...
    • Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises 

      Ewers, Michael; Dicce, Ryan; Poon, Jesse P.H.; Chow, Jeffery; Gengler, Justin ( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)
      Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities, Islamic finance has become a global industry representing both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the emergence of an urban network ...
    • ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES ON BOOMTOWN DYNAMICS IN THE EAGLE FORD SHALE, TEXAS 

      Murphy, Trey; Brannstrom, Christian; Fry, Matthew; Ewers, Michael ( Wiley , 2016 , Article)
      Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades- old trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil export ban and motivated the development of domestic ...
    • Climate Change and Temperature Warming in Qatar 

      Lambert, Laurent A. ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      In October 2015 the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University Surveyed representative samples of Qatari national (769) and white-color residents (762) to understand batter their views about ...
    • Housing Tenure and Economic Inequality among Qatari Citizens 

      Stepney, Erin ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      The most immediately effective measure to address housing inequality, which would generate additional benefits in many other areas, is the streamlining of administrative processes related to land allotment and infrastructure ...
    • Perceptions and Impacts of the Oil Crash in Qatar 

      Eskandar, Glnar; Ewers, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien (2016 , Report)
      Qatari citizens, especially those employed in the public sector, are less likely than other people living in Qatar to be aware of the recent decline in oil prices. Among citizens who are aware, moreover, most seem to ...
    • Public Acceptance of Taxation in Qatar 

      Ewers, Michael, [ إيورز، مايكل ]; Eskander, Glnar , [ إسكندر، وجلنار ]; Shockley, Bethany,, [ شوكلي ، وبثناي ] ( Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      Most Gulf countries have acknowledged that the traditional rentier system requires basic economic reform, and VAT could prove a more stable source of government revenue for oil producing countries. Results from two separate ...
    • Why Qatar Needs a Guest Worker Welfare Index 

      Ewers, Michael , [ إيورز, مايكل ] ( Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      Ambiguity and acrimony surrounding the welfare of blue-collar guest workers in Qatar will continue in the current low-information environment devoid of comprehensive and scientific data on the status of low-income laborers. ...
    • The prevalence of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use in non-clinical populations: a systematic review protocol 

      Khaled, Salma M.; Hughes, Elizabeth; Bressington, Dan; Zolezzi, Monica; Radwan, Ahmed; ... more authors ( BioMed Central , 2016 , Article)
      Background Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are new narcotic or psychotropic drugs that are not controlled by the United Nations drug convention that may pose a serious public health threat due to their wide availability ...
    • A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence From Qatar 

      Gengler, Justin J.; Mitchell, Jocelyn S. ( Oxford University Press , 2016 , Article Review)
      A common approach to correcting for interpersonal differences in response category thresholds in surveys is the use of anchoring vignettes. Here we present results from the first applications of anchoring vignettes in ...
    • Use of CAPI in surveys data collection SESRI experience 

      Abdelhameed, Isam; Elawad, Elmogiera ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2011 , Presentation)
      In this presentation, we explained the technical challenges and how SESRI solved them to conduct successful CAPI surveys; also, we showed how SESRI dealt with the Qatari society in particular to make the interviewing ...
    • A household-level decomposition of the white–black homeownership gap 

      Eric, Fesselmeyer; Kien, T. Le; Kiat Ying, Seah ( Elsevier B.V. , 2011 , Article)
      This paper uses a semiparametric homeownership model to estimate and to decompose the household-level white–black homeownership gap into an endowment component and a residual component across the distribution of homeownership ...
    • Changes in the white–black house value distribution gap from 1997 to 2005 

      Eric, Fesselmeyer; Kien, T. Le; Kiat Ying, Seah ( Elsevier , 2012 , Article)
      This paper examines the white–black house value gap across the entire value distribution. Instead of using standard conditional mean analysis and decomposition methods (via OLS regression), we estimate and decompose the ...
    • Parenting Young Arab Children: Psychometric Properties of an Adapted Arabic Brief Version of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire 

      Badahdah, Abdallah; Le, Kien Trung ( Springer , 2016 , Article)
      Research has shown a connection between negative parenting practices and child conduct problems. One of the most commonly used measures to assess parenting practices is the Alabama parenting questionnaire (APQ). The current ...
    • Estimating and decomposing changes in the White–Black homeownership gap from 2005 to 2011 

      Seah, Kiat Ying; Fesselmeyer, Eric; Lê, Trung Kiên ( SAGE Publications , 2015 , Article)
      This study evaluates the effects of the recent US housing bust on the White–Black homeownership gap by estimating and decomposing the changes in the distribution of the gap between 2005 and 2011. Our analysis shows that ...
    • SESRI Experience in Managing Field Laptops Deployment 

      Abdelhameed, Isam ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2015 , Conference)
      In this technical presentation, I presented the way SESRI configure field laptops and prepare them to the field with maximum security aspects taken into consideration to safeguard against response data lost, Also how SESRI ...