Economics M.A. and research assistant working in empirical and labour economics. I turn large, messy public micro-datasets into clean, reproducible panels and credible estimates — and I care as much about honest identification as about the headline result.
- Applied microeconomics & labour economics — employment/unemployment/inactivity transitions, income and wealth dynamics over the life cycle.
- Panel-data engineering — harmonising U.S. survey micro-data (PSID, NLSY79/97, CPS, HMDA) into analysis-ready panels.
- Causal inference — two-way fixed effects, event studies, shift-share designs, and careful robustness checks.
- Reproducible research — documented, end-to-end pipelines with publication-quality figures and LaTeX write-ups.
Stata · R · Python · Julia · LaTeX · Git
- psid-labor-transitions — cross-dataset study of labour-market transitions and wealth dynamics, built from PSID, NLSY and CPS and validated against FRED and published benchmarks.
- housing-credit-entrepreneurship — county-level panel study testing whether expanding federal mortgage-credit limits stimulate U.S. entrepreneurship, with a full identification ladder and an honest null result.
- Email: mkhdermani@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohsenkhalili-dermani-3b08a5156
- Affiliation: TeIAS — Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies