Ali Reza Oryoie (علیرضا اوریوئی) 

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Academic interests: inequality, poverty, development economics, public choice, applied econometrics. 

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Current position

Assistant Professor, University of Tehran.

Contact

• Faculty of Economics, University of Tehran, North Kargar St., Tehran 1411734115, Iran.

• oryoie1alireza@gmail.com

• oryoie@ut.ac.ir

• +98 - 21 -  88015253 

• +98 - 21 -  61118072

Work experience

• Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Tehran, Iran, 2017-present.

• Postdoctoral Researcher, National Elites Foundation of Iran and University of Tehran, Iran, 2016-2018.

• Instructor, Research Assistant, and Teaching Assistant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, 2012-2016 .

Education

• PhD in Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, 2016.

• MSc in Economics, University of Tehran, Iran, 2012.

• PG Dip in Economics, University of Manchester, England, 2010.

• BSc in Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2009.

Grants, Projects, and awards

• Impact of Sanctions on household insurance expenditures in Iran, Research Grant, Insurance Research Center, Iran, 2023.

• Winner of the Dr Kazemi Ashtiani Research Grant Award for Young Assistant Professors, National Elites Foundation of Iran. 2021. 

• Postdoctoral Fellowship and Research Grant, Iran’s National Elites Foundation, Iran. 2016.

• Fully funded PhD scholarship, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. 2012.

• Stanley Jevons Postgraduate Loyalty Bursary, University of Manchester, England. 2010.

English papers

• Oryoie, A. R. (2024). The impact of international sanctions on income mobility: Evidence from Iran. Review of Development Economics, 28(4), 1695-1717.

• Oryoie, A. R. (2023). Intragenerational Income Mobility between 1999 and 2020 in Iran. Iranian Economic Review, 27(3), 1135-1153.

• Oryoie, A. R., & Vahidmanesh, A. (2022). The Rate of Return to Education in Iran. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 13(2), 813-829. 

• Tohidinia, A., Oryoie, A. R., &Mohseni-Cheraghlou, A. (2020). Benevolent Savings and Macroeconomic Variables: Some Empirical Evidence from Iran. Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 1-13.

• Oryoie, A. R., & Alwang, J. (2018). School attendance and economic shocks: Evidence from rural Zimbabwe. Development Southern Africa, 35(6), 1-12.

• Oryoie, A. R., Alwang, J., & Tideman, N. (2017). Child labor and household land holding: Theory and empirical evidence from Zimbabwe. World Development, 100, 45-58.

• Oryoie, A. R., & Abbasinejad, H. (2017). The Rise and Fall of Top Incomes in Iran 1985-2015. Iranian Economic Review, 21(4), 941-968.

Farsi papers

• Mohammad Hassan, P., & Oryoie, A. R. (2024). Income Inequality and the Intersectionality of Gender and Ethnicity in Iran. Woman in Development & Politics, 22(4), 917-939. 

• Norouzi Shirvanehdeh, H., Mehrara, M., & Oryoie, A. R. (2021). Quantiles of Household Energy Consumption Expenditure and Factors affecting it. Quarterly Energy Economics Review, 17(69), 95-126.

Working papers

• Oryoie, A. R., Optimal grouping of income distribution using an income polarisation approach

Teaching

• Public Economics (PhD and Undergraduate), University of Tehran.

• Econometrics (MSc and PhD), University of Tehran.

• Probability and Statistics (Undergraduate), University of Tehran.

• Mathematics (Undergraduate), University of Tehran.

• Political Economy (MSc), University of Tehran.

• Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Conference presentation

• Ali Reza Oryoie. "The Impact of International Sanctions on Income Mobility: Evidence from Iran." International Conference on Empirical Economics at Penn State Altoona, USA, 2023.

Dissertation Supervision

• Mahdi Shams (about inequality of education in Iran). 

• Hamed Fard Mehraban (about income polarisation in Iran). 

• Pedram Mohammad Hasan (about Intersectional Inequality in Iran). 

• Hakimeh Norouzi (about Household energy consumption in Iran). 

• Hanieh Fathi (about minimum wage and inequality in Iran). 

• Ali Zamani (about income polarisation in Iran). 

• Saeed Badri (about child labor in Iran). 

• Rouzbeh Malekshahi (about income mobility in Iran). 

• Maryam Dalil kouhi (about measuring unfair inequality in Iran). 

• Atousa Taghavi (about stock market and government fiscal policies in Iran). 

• Masood Abdinejad (about inter-generational income mobility in Iran). 

• Mohammad Mousavi (about poverty implications of subsidy reform in Iran). 

• Arman Givehchian (about charity). 

• Mohammadreza Mafi (about socio-economic status and happiness).