Areas of Interest:

• Economics of Labor and Human Capital
• Economics of Entrepreneurship
• Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Southern California, 2010
• MA, Business Administration, Sharif University of Technology, 2004
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2002

Experience:

• Associate Professor, Economics Division Babson College, September 2017- present
• Assistant Professor at Babson College between 2010 and 2016
• Research Assistant University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2006-2007
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Sept. 2005 – May 2008
• Editorial Assistant for this Scholarly Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2008

Latest Publications:

• “Saharan Sand and Dust Storms and Neonatal Mortality: Evidence from Burkina Faso,” with Seyed M. Karimi, Hamid Pouran, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, and Hassan Hakimian, Science of The Total Environment, (2020). (Impact factor: 5.589)
• “Fertility and the Puzzle of Female Employment in the Middle East and North Africa,” Economics of Transition (2020). (Impact factor: 1.09; ABDC A-ranked journal)
• “Estimating a Model of Settlement Bargaining in the World Trade Organization,” with Mostafa Beshkar, In Zissimos, Ben (Ed.), The WTO and Economic Development, (December 17, 2019), MIT Press, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/wto-and-economic-development (the content of the book is temporarily available here.)