Mahdi is a Professor of Economics at Babson College near Boston. Babson is known as the #1 Entrepreneurship School in the United States (according to the US News and World Report), as well as #1 in career preparedness, and #10 College in America (according to Wall Street Journal).
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2010 and has been at Babson College ever since. He is also a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). His expertise is broadly in two related fields: the microeconomics of developing countries and applied microeconometrics. His research focus, however, is mostly on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, specifically on the labor markets, gender issues, entrepreneurship, education, dynamics of income and poverty, and the impacts of natural resources.
He is also the Middle East Economics Association (MEEA) treasurer. His past research has been published in Harvard Business Review, Feminist Economics, Applied Economics, Energy Policy, Resources Policy, Science of the Total Environment, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and The Journal of Real Estate Economics.
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