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Mesbah Sharaf

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Mesbah Sharaf
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Canada

Mesbah Sharaf is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Alberta, Canada. His research focuses on topics related to Development Economics, Health Economics, Demographic and Population Economics and Applied Econometrics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an ERF Research Fellow.

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Maternal education to curb female genital mutilation: evidence from Egypt

Education is widely considered a protective factor against risky health practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM). This column summarises evidence-based research that evaluates the causal impact of maternal education on FGM outcomes in Egypt, which has the world’s highest number of circumcised women.

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