Despite a large body of evidence showing that early-life malnutrition influences adult
outcomes, there is no evidence that early-life starvation causes use of opioids. Studying the …

Despite growing interest in Universal Basic Income (UBI), evidence of its impact remains
limited. To address this gap, we examine household behavior three years after Iran's 2010 …

We study the distributional effect of one of the largest global subsidy reforms, which replaced
more than 40 billion USD annual energy subsidies with universal cash transfers in Iran …

The remarks by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the toll of the famines that
afflicted occupied Iran in World War I and World War II indicate a desire to incorporate these …

This paper examines the effect of the 2010 energy subsidy reforms in Iran, which provided
monthly lump-sum payments to Iranian citizens, excluding non-Iranian residents. We show …

Even though children are legally required to attend school, many do not, especially in the
developing world. This study uses rich microdata from Iran to investigate out-of-school …