Areas of Interest:

• Development Economics
• Public Economics
• Applied econometrics (program evaluation)

Education:

• 2010 – 2014, Ph.D. Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK.
• 2008 – 2010, M.Res. Economics (with Distinction), LSE, London, UK.
• 2005 – 2008, M.Sc. Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Experience:

• Associate professor, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2023 – Present
• Assistant professor, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2014 – 2023
• Lecturer, Microeconomics II (for PhD and MSc Economics) and Development Economics (for MSc Economics), Sharif University of Technology, Winter 2015
• Lecturer, Microeconomics I and Econometrics I – MSc Economics courses, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2014

Latest Publications:

• “Large-scale Affordable Housing Construction and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Iran”, joint with Saeed Tajrishy, 2023, Journal of Economic Geography , 2023. [Link]
• “The Double Dividend of a Joint Tariff and VAT Reform: Evidence from Iran”, joint with K. Yousefi, World Bank Economic Review, 37(2), 331-349, 2023. [Link]
• “What do one hundred million transactions tell us about demand elasticity of gasoline?”, joint with A.H. Tavakoli and M.H. Rahmati, Empirical Economics, 62, 2021. [Link]