Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Pooya Alaedini

   Pages 1-13

3. Iran’s Post-revolutionary Social Justice Agenda and Its Outcomes: Evolution and Determinants of Income Distribution and Middle-Class Size

   • Pooya Alaedini, Hamid R. Ashrafzadeh

   Pages 15-45

4. Poverty, Inequality, and Income Mobility in Iran: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

   • Hossein Raghfar, Mitra Babapour

   Pages 47-83

5. Oil Rents, Political Institutions, and Income Inequality in Iran

   • Sajjad Faraji Dizaji

   Pages 85-109

6. Housing Costs and Inequality in Post-revolutionary Iran

   • Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Hassan F. Gholipour, Jeremy Nguyen

   Pages 111-128

7. Gender Inequality and Income Inequality in Iran

   • Nadereh Chamlou

   Pages 129-153

8. Aging and Gender Disparities in Contemporary Iran

   • Majid Koosheshi, Pooya Alaedini

   Pages 155-184

9. Effects of Oil Sanctions on Iran’s Economy and Household Welfare: New Evidence from A CGE Model

   • Mohammad Reza Farzanegan, Mohammad Mohammadi Khabbazan, Hossein Sadeghi

   Pages 185-211

10. Household Welfare in Iran Under Banking Sanctions: From Open Economy Toward Autarchy

    • Mohammad Mohammadi Khabbazan, Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

    Pages 213-232

11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-237

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This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic liberalization initiatives carried out under the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations, the ascendance of a populist economic platform under the Ahmadinejad administration, and the lifting of energy and financial sanctions under the Rouhani administration. Featuring a mix of scholars, including Iranian academics who experienced these changes and are publishing in English for the first time, this collection offers quantitative and descriptive studies of the country's post-revolutionary economic development and disparities. In most chapters, a hypothesis is developed from existing theories or observations, which is then tested using available data. This unique combination of new voices, academic as well as personal experiences, and scientific methods will be a valuable addition to the library of the scholars of modern Iran’s economy and society.

• sanctions
• household
• poverty
• welfare
• middle class
• demographic transition
• political institutions
• oil rent

• Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Business & Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marbug, Germany

  Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

• Department of Social Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  Pooya Alaedini

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan is Professor of Economics of the Middle East at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. He is affiliated with MACIE (Marburg), CESifo (Munich) and ERF (Cairo). His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, International Tax and Public Finance, and World Development.


Pooya Alaedini is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Planning, University of Tehran, Iran. He has served as an international development consultant for UN agencies, the World Bank, and national organizations. His research has focused on major urban, regional, and social disparity issues as well as evaluation of development programs.



Contributors


Hamid Reza Ashrafzadeh, Institute for Trade Studies and Research, Iran
Mitra Babapour, Freelance Researcher, Iran
Nadereh Chamlou,International Development Adviser, USA
Sajjad Faraji Dizaji, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
Hassan F. Gholipour, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Mohamad Mohammadi Khabbazan, University of Hamburg, Germany
Majid Koosheshi, University of Tehran, Iran
Jeremy Nguyen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Hossein Raghfar, Alzahra University, Iran
Hossein Sadeghi, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran

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