Sourushe Zandvakili

Head and Professor
1214 Crosley Tower
513-556-2629
sourushe.zandvakili@uc.edu

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Education

PhD, Indiana University, 1987.

Professional Summary

Sourushe Zandvakili is Professor of economics and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Cincinnati. His areas of expertise include Labor Economics (Economics of Human Resources), Public Economics and Policy and Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics. He has extensive consulting experience with both private and public organizations such as The Kroger Co., US Bank, The Gallup Organization, London House, The Cincinnati Financial Corporation, Market-Assist Inc., State of Ohio: House Ways and Means Committee, Butler County Children Services Board, Ohio Staffing Services Association, Thomson Learning, Federal District Court, US Court of Appeals, etc. His research is widely cited and has been published in journals such as Research on Economic Inequality, International Journal of Social Economics, Applied Economics Letters, The Review of Income and Wealth, Empirical Economics, Estadistica: Journal of the Inter-American Statistical Institute, Review of Social Economy, International Business and Economics Research Journal, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Research in Middle East Economics, Forum for Social Economics, Journal of Socio Economics, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management International Digest, Contributions in Economics and Economic History, Economica, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of Applied Econometrics, The Economics of Poverty and Inequality, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, [NAFTA] Law and Business Review of the Americas, Applied Economics, Aspects of Distribution of Wealth and Income, Economic Development Quarterly, Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Journal of Econometrics, Economics Letters, etc.

Research Interests

1. Globalization and Inequality according to Veblen, International Journal of Social Economics, Volume 31 (2004), 1061-1070, with D.C. Wellington
2. Bounding Lifetime Income Inequality Using a Cross Section of Data, The Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 49 (2003), 205-219, with D.L. Millimet, N. Podder and D.J. Slottje
3. The Redistributional Implications of Tax and Transfer Programs in US, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 41 (2001), 167-181, With J.A. Mills
4. Income Inequality among Female Heads of Households: Racial Inequality Reconsidered, Economica, Volume 66 (1999), 119-133
5. Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Economic Inequality, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Volume 12 (1997), 133-150, With J.A. Mills
6. Generalized Entropy Measures of Mobility for Different Sexes and Income Levels, Journal of Econometrics, Volume 43 (1990), 121-133, with E. Maasoumi

Research Support

Active Learning Strategies for the College and University Economics Classroom, Faculty Development Council. Funded 04-2005.

Active Learning Strategies in Economics Classroom, Faculty Development Council. Funded 05-2004.

Research Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center. Funded 02-2002.

The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center Faculty Fellowship, University of Cincinnati. Funded 2002 to 2003.

Technology Assisted Instructions, Instructional Technology Institute. Funded 06-2001.

(Co-PI) with J.A. Mills, Cost Sharing Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center. Funded 05-2001.

Active Learning Strategies for the College and University Economics Classroom, Faculty Development Council. Funded 12-2000.

Technology Assisted Instructions, Instructional Technology Institute. Funded 06-2000.

Technology Assisted Instructions, Instructional Technology Institute. Funded 03-2000.

(Co-PI) with J.A. Mills, Faculty Research Grant, Canadian Embassy. Funded 03-2000.

Active Learning Strategies for the College and University Economics Classroom, Faculty Development Council. Funded 12-1999.

Public Finance Issues in Human Capital Production and Distribution, Faculty Development Council. Funded 12-1999.

Statistical Summer Workshop, Bootstrapping and Nonlinear Analysis, Institute for Data Sciences, University of Cincinnati. Funded 05-1998.

Summer Research Grant, University of Cincinnati, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center . Funded 04-1998.

(Co-PI) with J.A. Mills, Bootstrapped Tests of Dominance for Income Tax Distributions in the US, University Research Council, University of Cincinnati. Funded 05-1996.

Computer Assisted Instructions in Economics, Faculty Development Council. Funded 05-1996.

Sabbatical Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati. Funded 04-1994.

Research Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati. Funded 05-1993.

Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University Research Council, University of Cincinnati. Funded 05-1993.

The Dynamics of Government Cash Transfers on the Distribution of Lifetime Incomes, The Levy Economics Institute. Funded 05-1992.

Summer Research Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati. Funded 04-1992.

Cross National Analysis and Measurement of Inequality within the Framework of Public Policy, The Levy Economics Institute. Funded 05-1990.

Summer Research Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati. Funded 04-1990.

Research Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati. Funded 03-1989.

Research Grant, The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati. Funded 02-1988.

Ethnicity, Race, Poverty Status, and Analysis of Inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database, University Research Council, University of Cincinnati. Funded 02-1988.

Peer Reviewed Publications

With D.C. Wellington (2007). Karl Marx and Milton Friedman: Bedfellows in Thought. International Journal of Social Economics, 34, 425-432.

With D.C. Wellington (2006). The Veblen Reply. International Journal of Social Economics, 33, 858-859.

With D.C. Wellington (2006). The Entrepreneurial Myth, Globalization and American Dominance. International Journal of Social Economics, 33, 615-624.

With D. Gray & J.A. Mills (2004). An Analysis of Differential Provincial Income Inequality Trends in Canada. Research on Economic Inequality, 12, 449-467.

With D.C. Wellington (2004). Globalization and Inequality according to Veblen. International Journal of Social Economics, 31, 1061-1070.

With J.A. Mills (2004). Analysis of Gender based Family Income Inequality in Canada. Applied Economics Letters, 11, 469-472.

With D.L. Millimet, N. Podder & D.J. Slottje (2003). Bounding Lifetime Income Inequality Using a Cross Section of Data. The Review of Income and Wealth, 49, 205-219.

With D. Gray & J.A. Mills (2003). Statistical Analysis of Inequality with Decompositions: the Canadian Experience. Empirical Economics, 28, 291–302.

With J.A. Mills (2003). The Distributional Effects of US Tax and Transfer Policy on the Household. Research on Economic Inequality, 10, 195-212.

With D.L. Millimet, D.J. Slottje & S. Yitzhaki (2003). Educational Impacts and Rising Inequality in the US. Estadistica: Journal of the Inter-American Statistical Institute, 55, 231-256.

Invited Presentations

(01-2008). Advances in Measurement of Inequality and Role of Statistical Inference. Association for Social Economics, New Orleans, LA.

(01-2006). Advances in Measurement of Inequality and Role of Statistical Inference. Association for Evolutionary Economics, Boston, MA.

(06-2005). Immigration, Assimilation and Inequality of Income Distribution in Canada. World Conference of the Society of Labor Economist and the Europeand Association of Labour Economist, San Francisco, CA.

(04-2005). Household Size and Distributional Implications of Taxes and Transfers in US. Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

(01-2005). Household Size and Distributional Implications of Taxes and Transfers in US. Association for Evolutionary Economics, Philadelphia, PA.

(04-2004). The Distributional Effects of US Tax and Transfer Policy on the Household. University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA.

(05-2003). New Perspective on Canadian National and Regional Income Inequality. World Institute for Development Economics Research, International Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Human Well-Being, Helsinki, Finland.

(05-2003). An Analysis of Differential Provincial Income Inequality Trends in Canada. Department of Economics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.

(05-2003). An Analysis of Differential Provincial Income Inequality Trends in Canada. Canadian Economics Association, Ottawa, Canada.

(01-2003). The Distributional Effects of US Tax and Transfer Policy on the Household. Association for Evolutionary Economics, Washington, DC.

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