Research

Research Interests:

- Labor Economics (Immigration, Wage Discrimination, Gender/Race Inequality)

- Environmental Economics

- Experimental Economics 

Scholarly Works:

• Bagheri, Omid, Klaus Moeltner, and Wei Yang. "Respiratory illness, hospital visits, and health costs: Is it air pollution or pollen?." Environmental Research 187 (2020): 109572.

• Are College Graduate Immigrants on Work Visa Cheaper than Natives? (Working Paper Published at the CGO) - Revise and Resubmit - Journal of Labor Research.

This study was recently referred to in a recent US Senate hearing on DACA and International Students and was mentioned in a Forbes article. It was also cited in a WSJ article titled “Should the U.S. Expand the H-1B Visa Program?”

• Earnings Gap Between Highly Educated Immigrants and US-Born Counterparts: Analysis of Dynamics - Under Review - Journal of Labour Market Research

•  Skilled Immigrant Earnings, Visa Type, and the H-1B Program (with Kusum Mundra) - In Progress: Writing The Third Draft

• Undocumented Immigrants and the Shadow Economy (with co-authors) - In Progress

• Relative Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrant Truck Drivers and the Pandemic (with Abdi Shaeye) - In Progress

• Do Social Ties Affect Decisions in Buying Health Insurances? (with co-authors) - In Progress