Research

The cooperation is built on the basis of available expertise among the project members. This is reflected in related publications in international refereed journals and other academic outlines.

One ongoing joint research activity is an edited book project entitled “Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran: Developments since the Revolution” which is published by Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature (New York, NY) in December 2016.

The book is a collection of 8 chapters on post-revolution Iran economic development written by 11 leading and emerging scholars. It is edited by Mohammad Reza Farzanegan (CNMS) and Pooya Alaedini (University of Tehran). The chapters in this book are as follows:

Chapter 1. Iran’s Post-Revolutionary Social Justice Agenda and Its Outcomes: Evolution and Determinants of Income Distribution and Middle-Class Size/Pooya Alaedini and Hamid R. Ashrafzadeh

Chapter 2. Poverty, Inequality, and Income Mobility in Iran: A Pseudo-Panel Approach/Hossein Raghfar and Mitra Babapour

Chapter 3. Oil Rents, Political Institutions, and Income Inequality in Iran/Sajjad Faraji Dizaji

Chapter 4. Housing Costs and Inequality in Post-Revolutionary Iran/Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Hassan F. Gholipour, and Jeremy Nguyen

Chapter 5. Gender Inequality and Income Inequality in Iran/Nadereh Chamlou

Chapter 6. Aging and Gender Disparities in Contemporary Iran/Majid Koosheshi and Pooya Alaedini

Chapter 7. Effects of Oil Sanctions on Iran’s Economy and Household Welfare: New Evidence from a CGE Model/Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Mohammad Mohammadi Khabbazan, and Hossein Sadeghi

Chapter 8. Household Welfare in Iran under Banking Sanctions: From Open Economy toward Autarchy/Mohamad Mohammadi Khabbazan and Mohammad Reza Farzanegan