Areas of Interest:

• Environmental Economics
• Development Economics
• Labor Economics
• Applied Econometrics

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2016
• M.A. in Economics Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2013
• M.Sc. in Economics Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011
• B.Sc. in Electrical Eng. Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2008

Experience:

• Assistant Professor, College of Business and Computing, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, GA, 2019-Present
• Instructor, Department of Economics, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, 2017- 2019
• Consultant, Poverty Group ECA, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017
• Associate, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2016 - 2017
• Consultant, Poverty Group MENA, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2016
• Consultant, Macro and Fiscal Management Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015

Latest Publications:

• "Cash transfers and labor supply: evidence from a large-scale program in Iran" (with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Journal of Development Economics , 2018)
• "Consumer subsidies in Iran: simulations of further reforms", The Quest for Subsidies Reforms in the MENA Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making, By Paolo Verme and Abdelkrim Araar, New York: Springer International Publishing, 2017 (with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani)
• "Welfare and Fiscal Implications from Increased Gasoline Prices in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Policy Research working paper No. 9235, The World Bank, 2020, (with Aziz Atamanov, and Matthew Wai-Poi)