Mehrdad Esfahani
esfahani@roanoke.edu
Department of Economics http://m-esfahani.com
Roanoke College
221 College Lane, Salem, Virginia, 24153
Employment
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Roanoke College Salem, VA
Assistant Professor 2021 - present
Education
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Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
Ph.D. Economics 2015 - 2021
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University of Tehran Tehran, Iran
Masters Degree, Economics 2011 - 2013
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Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering 2006 - 2011
Research Fields
• Macroeconomics, Income and Wealth Inequality
• U.S. and Global Productivity Trends, Economic Growth and Development
Working Papers
• Inequality Over the Life-Cycle: U.S. vs Europe.
• World Productivity (1996-2014). (joint with and John Fernald and Bart Hobijn), Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper 2020-17.
• Investment in Skills, Managerial Quality and Economic Development.
Work in Progress
• Normative Growth Accounting: The Distorted-Planner Approach, (joint with and John Fernald
and Bart Hobijn).
• Lifetime Earnings Inequality Across U.S. and Europe: Males, Females, and Households.
• Subjective Expectations and Earnings Dynamics in the U.S.
• Who Benefits From College Subsidies? A Cross-country Analysis.
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Teaching Experience
Roanoke College
• Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2021
• Money and Banking, Fall 2021
Arizona State University
• Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Summer 2019
Conference Presentations (* scheduled)
• 2021 - *Southern Economic Association
• 2020 - Southern Economic Association, Economics Graduate Student Conference
• 2019 - Society for Economic Dynamics, Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting
Awards
Distinguished Economics Graduate Instructor Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2019
Best Written Third-Year Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2018
Hardison Award for Best Performance in Microeconomics Qualifying Exam . . . . . . . . . . 2016
Hardison Award for Best Performance in Macroeconomics Qualifying Exam . . . . . . . . . 2016
Graduate Research Assistance Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
Skills
• Statistical Analysis, Econometrics, Data Visualization
– Expert: Python
– Intermediate: SAS, SQL
• Scientific Computing
– Expert: Python, MATLAB
– Intermediate: C++, Julia
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