Munir Squires
Assistant Professor at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Research Interests
Kinship and culture
Development economics
Economic history
Contact
Vancouver School of Economics
6000 Iona Drive
Vancouver, BC Canada, V6T 1L4
Published / Accepted
Health effects of cousin marriage: Evidence from US genealogical records (with Sam Il Myoung Hwang, and Deaglan Jakob)
Conditionally Accepted 2024, American Economic Review: Insights
Kinship Taxation as a Constraint to Microenterprise Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
The Economic Journal, 2024 (link)
Linked Samples and Measurement Error in Historical US Census Data (with Sam Il Myoung Hwang)
Explorations in Economic History, 2024 (link)
Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence From U.S. Bans on Cousin Marriage (with Arkadev Ghosh and Sam Il Myoung Hwang)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023 (link)
Links and legibility: Making sense of historical US Census automated linking methods (Tables and figures) (Appendix) (with Arkadev Ghosh and Sam Il Myoung Hwang)
The Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2023 (link)
Previous version, with comparative evaluation of migration across linking algorithms: Main text, Tables and figures, Appendix
Linking Mobile Money Networks to “e-ROSCAs”: An Experimental Study (with Patrick Francois)
Science Advances, 2021 (link)
Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa (with Anne E. Fitzpatrick, Sabrin A. Beg, Laura C. Derksen, Anne Karing, Jason T. Kerwin, Adrienne Lucas, Natalia Ordaz Reynoso)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021 (link)
Work in progress
Marriage Networks and Social Integration: Evidence from Historical US data (with Arkadev Ghosh and Sam Il Myoung Hwang)
The Effect of Cousin Marriage on Patriarchal and Parochial Attitudes (with Mohammed Al-Shafaee, Erica Field, and Seema Jayachandran)
Long-Term Mortality Impacts of Temperature Shocks: Evidence from Historical and Genealogical Data (with Patrick Baylis and Sam Il Myoung Hwang)
Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning Approach (with Christian M Dahl, Sam Il Myoung Hwang, and Torben Johansen)