Djavad Salehi Isfahani: publications

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

Edited volumes

 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. 

 Articles in Refereed Journals

 “Poverty, Inequality, and Populist Politics in Iran,” Journal of Economic Inequality, forthcoming. 

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

 “Introduction,” with Douglas Eckel and Joseph Pitt, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 62(5), Special Issue on The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections on the VPI Center, edited by Joseph C. Pitt , Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Douglas Eckel, January 2004. 

 “Fertility, Education, and Household Resources in Iran, 1987-1992,” Research in Middle East Economics, Vol. 4, Elsevier/JAI Press, 2001. 

 “Government Subsidies and the Demand for Petroleum Products in Iran,” in Research in Middle East Economics, Vol. 1, 1996: 53-81, JAI Press. First appeared as World Petroleum Markets Working Paper #22, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 1996. Translated and reprinted with modifications as “Pricing of Petroleum Products in Iran,” Development and Planning Review, 2(9) winter 1995, 1-31 (in Persian). 

 “Models of the Oil Market Revisited,” Journal of Energy Literature, 1(1), summer 1995: 3-21. Reprinted in The Economics of Energy, Vol. 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. 

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

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

 “Oil Exports, Exchange Rate Appreciation and Demand for Imports in Nigeria,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 37(3), April 1989: 495-512. 

 “Technology and Preferences in the Boserup Model of Agricultural Growth,” Journal of Development Economics, 28(2), March 1988: 175-191. 

 “On the Generalization of the Boserup Model: Some Clarifications,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 35(4), July 1987: 875-881. 

 “Oil Supply and Economic Development Strategy: A Dynamic Planning Approach,” Journal of Development Economics, 21(1), April 1986: 1-23. 

Book Chapters

 “Microeconomics of growth in MENA: the role of households,” in J. Nugent and M. H. Pesaran (editors), Explaining Growth in Middle East, Contributions to Economic Analysis, Volume 278. London: Elsevier, 2006. 

 “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, 295-299.

 “Microeconomic 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, 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. 

 “Introduction,” in Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East: Studies of Markets and Household Behavior, in D. Salehi-Isfahani, editor, Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2001. 

 “The Gender Gap in Education in Iran: Evidence for the Role of Household Characteristics,” in D. Salehi-Isfahani, editor, Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East: Studies of Markets and Household Behavior, Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2001. 

 “Population, Labor, and Employment in Iran,” with Hamid Tabatabai, in D. Salehi-Isfahani, editor, Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East: Studies of Markets and Household Behavior, Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2001. 

 “The Oil Sector After the Revolution,” in Saeed Rahnama and Sohrab Behdad, eds., Iran After the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State, London: I. B. Tauris, 1995: 150-173. 

 “The Role of the Oil and Gas Sector in Post-Revolutionary Iran,” in Kamran Pirouz, ed., Economic Development in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Proceedings of a Conference held March 3, 1995, School of Business Administration, Montclair State University, 1995: 6-12. 

 “The Iranian Economy Since the Revolution,” in Shireen Hunter, ed., Internal Developments in Iran, Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, Significant Issues Series, vol. 7, no. 3 (Washington, D.C. 1985): 25-48. 

 “Economic Analysis,” in Middle East Research Institute Reports: Iran, Middle East Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Croom Helm Publishers (London, 1985): 83-130.