Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah is a postdoctoral researcher at CEPED (UMR 196), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Aix Marseille University and a Masters in development economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. He was a visiting researcher at the French Institute of Research for the Development (IRD), Senegal and at the Research and Policy Analysis Department of the National Bank of Rwanda. His research interests include health economics, demography and economic development. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Demographic Economics, the Lancet, Health Policy, Pacific Economic Review, and the Review of Economics of the Household.