Dr. Ameed Saabneh
Dr. Ameed Saabneh
Research interests
Inequalities in health and mortality: I study reasons for and determinants of inequalities in health and mortality with special emphasis on inequalities between ethnic/racial groups.
Immigration: I study the assimilation of African immigrants in the United States and Israel. specifically, I investigate African immigrants labor market success their and placement within the host-country stratification system.
Displacement and residential segregation: I study the effects of displacement and extreme spatial segregation between Palestinians and Jews on the socio-economic status of second-generation internally displaced Palestinians (IDPs) in Israel.
Social stratification: I study changes in the relationship between educational and occupational attainments among Palestinians in Israel in the last two decades. Specifically, I study trends in income returns to education among Palestinian working men and women.
Education
- Ph.D., Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania (Penn), 2013
- M.A. Statistics, University of Haifa, 2003,
- M.A. Psychology, University of Haifa, 2001
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Selected publications
Saabneh, Ameed. 2017. “The Association between Maternal Employment and Child Survival in India, 1998–99 and 2005–06.” Asian Population Studies 13(1):67–85.
Saabneh, Ameed. 2016. “Arab-Jewish Gap in Life Expectancy in Israel.” The European Journal of Public Health 26(3):443–438.
Saabneh, Ameed. 2015. “Ethnic Health Inequalities in Unequal Societies: Morbidity Gaps Between Palestinians and Jews in Israel.” European Journal of Population 31(4):445–66.
Saabneh, Ameed. 2014. “Christian-Muslim Differences in Child Survival in Egypt”. Journal of Population Research 31(3): 253-267.
