Research

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Books:

· Models of the Oil Market, with Jacques Cremer, Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, monograph no. 44, 1991, Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers.

· The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections on the VPI Center, with Douglas Eckel and Joseph C. Pitt, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.

· Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East: Studies of Markets and Household Behavior, Reading, England: Ithaca Press, 2001. Selected as one of the ten Noteworthy Books of 2001 by Princeton University Industrial Relations Section.

Recent papers:

· A comparative study of returns to education of urban men in Egypt, Iran, and Turkey, with Ragui Assaad and Insan Tunali, Middle East Development Journal, forthcoming.

· Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation, with M. Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi. Working paper.

· Growing up in Iran: Tough times for the Revolution’s children, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 15(1) Fall/Winter 2008.

· Youth Exclusion in Iran: The State of Education, Employment and Family Formation, with Daniel Egel, Middle East Youth Initiative Working Paper, Wolfensohn Center for Development, The Brookings Institution.

· Poverty, Inequality, and Populist Politics in Iran, The Journal of Economic Inequality, March 2009 (revised version of Revolution and redistribution in Iran).

· Reversal of fortunes: a cohort analysis of lifetime earnings in Iran, with Marenglen Marku, Working paper, September 2006, revised January 2008.

· Demographic swings and early childhood education in Iran, With Hania Kamel, Working Paper, September 2006.

· Revolution and redistribution in Iran: poverty and inequality 25 years later, Working paper, June 2006.

· Iran’s Third Development Plan: A Reappraisal, Working Paper, November 2005.

· Labor market flexibility and investment in human capital, Working Paper (with Russ Murphy).

· Microeconomics of growth in MENA: the role of households, in J. Nugent and M. H. Pesaran, Explaining Growth in the Middle East, Contributions to Economic Analysis volume 278, London: Elsevier, 2006.

· Human resources in Iran: potentials and challenges, Iranian Studies, 38(1), March 2005, 117-147.

· Comment on Rima Khalaf Hunaidi’s `Reform in Hindsight: Promises and Illusions in Jordan,? in Development Challenges in the 1990: Leading Policymakers Speak from Experience, Timothy Besley and Roberto Zagha (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005.

· Introduction, with D. Eckel and J. C. Pitt, in The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections on the VPI Center, with Douglas Eckel and Joseph C. Pitt, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. Also a special issue of The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, guest editors J. C. Pitt, D. Salehi-Isfahani and D. Eckel, 62(5), January 2004.

· Microeconomics determinants of growth around the world, with Sergei Guriev, in Explaining Growth: A Global Research Project, Gary McMahon and Lyn Squire, eds., IEA Conference Volume No. 150, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2003.

· Population, Population, Human Capital, and Economic Growth in Iran, in Ismail Sirageldin, editor, Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East, London: I.B. Tauris, and Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2002.

Older papers:

· Models of the Oil Market Revisited, Journal of Energy Literature, 1(1), summer 1995: 3-21. Reprinted in The Economics of Energy, Volume 1, edited by Paul Stevens, the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, 2000, London: E. Edgar Publishers.

· Population Pressure, Intensification of Agriculture, and Rural-Urban Migration, Journal of Development Economics, 40(2) April 1993: 371-384. Translated and reprinted in Persian in Development and Planning Review, 2(2), 1992.

· Effort Observability and Worker Productivity: Toward an explanation of economic dualism, with Hadi S. Esfahani, Economic Journal, 99(397) September 1989: 818-836.

· The Rise and Fall of Oil Prices: A Competitive View, with Jacques Cremer, Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, No 15/16, July-December 1989: 427-454.

· The Political Economy of Credit Subsidy in Iran, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 21, no. 3 (August 1989): 359-79.