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Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 540-231-7697
Fax: (540) 231-5097

Blacksburg VA 24061
United States
ABOUT
Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani is currently Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1977–1984) and has served as visiting faculty at the University of Oxford (1991–1992), the Brookings Institution (2007–2008), and Harvard Kennedy School (2009–2010 and 2013). He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum, on the Board of the Middle East Economic Association, and as Associate Editor of the Middle East Development Journal. His research has been in energy economics, demographic economics, and the economics of the Middle East. He has coauthored two books, Models of the Oil Market and After the Spring: Economic Transitions in the Arab World, and edited two books, Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East and The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice. His articles have appeared in the Economic Journal, the Journal of Development Economics, Health Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Middle East Development Journal, and Iranian Studies, among others. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Discipline
Economics
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Specialties
Energy Econ
ME Econ
Popln & Labor In Dev Countries
Languages
Arabic (elementary)
Persian (advanced)
Education
PhD | 1977 | Econ | Harvard U
Abstracts
Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation Equality of Human Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa