Regular biography
Munir Squires is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at The University of British Columbia. His research focuses on development economics and economic history, with an emphasis on kinship, culture, and the effects of cousin marriage. He obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Squires teaches courses within the department and maintains an active research profile. For more information about his work, visit his personal website.
Scholar-generated biography
Munir Squires is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the economic implications of kinship structures, particularly how kinship taxation affects firm growth in Kenya. He also examines the consequences of kinship in the context of US cousin marriage bans and explores the impact of health knowledge on non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa. Additionally, his work addresses historical data challenges, such as measurement error in US census records and the use of machine learning to improve historical census transcriptions. His research also includes the study of gender attitudes in Oman and the role of mobile money networks in economic practices.