Aboozar Hadavand
Personal Website
- About Me
I’m an assistant professor of Computational Sciences at Minerva University where I teach causal inference and statistics. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. My current research involves education policy, education technology, and science communication. I received my Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2017.
Academic Positions
- Minerva University
Assistant Professor of Computational Sciences, 2020--Current
- Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017--2020
- Columbia University, Barnard College
Adjunct Instructor, 2016--2017
Education
- CUNY-Graduate Center
Ph.D. in Economics, 2017
- Texas Tech University
Master of Arts in Economics, 2011
- Iran University of Science and Technology
Master of Science in Control Systems, 2008
- Iran University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2005
Work Experience
- Edgur
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, 2021--Current
- Cauzl
Co-founder, 2016--Current
- IBM
Senior Strategy Consulting Intern, Summer 2016
- Pooyesh Niroo
Sales Manager, 2006--2008
Journal Articles
Hadavand, A., Hamermesh, D., Wilson, W., Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?, (2022) Journal of Economic Literature, (link)
Almasi, P., Hadavand, A., Thomas, S., Gharehgozli, O., Relevance of Education to Occupation: A New Empirical Approach Based on College Courses, (2020) Education Economics, (link)
Trujillo, A., Hadavand, A., Jennings, L., Amalia Pesantes, M., Diez Canseco, F., Miranda, J.J., Ignorance or Motivated Beliefs: The Role of Motivated Beliefs in Self-management of Diabetes, (2020) Journal of Bioeconomics, (link).
Myint L., Hadavand A., Jager L., Leek J., Comparison of Beginning R Students’ Perceptions of Peer-Made Plots Created in Two Plotting Systems: A Randomized Experiment, (2019) Journal of Statistics Education, (link)
Hadavand, A., Muschelli, J., Leek, J., Analysis of Student Behavior Using the R Package crsra, (2019) Journal of Learning Analytics, 6(2). (link)
Hadavand, A., Misperceptions: An Analysis of Subjective Economic Inequality, Research on Economic Inequality, 26,247-281 (link).
Hadavand, A., Educational Aid Policy and Inequality: The Case for Merit- and Need-Based Aid, (2018) Review of Social Economy, 76:4, 535-562 (link).
Tofighi, B., Leonard, N., Greco, P., Hadavand, A., Acosta, M. C., & Lee, J. D., Technology Use Patterns Among Patients Enrolled in Inpatient Detoxification Treatment. (2018) Journal of addiction medicine (link).
Pre-Prints
Hadavand, A., Hamermesh, D., Wilson, W., Is Scholarly Refereeing Productive (at the Margin)?, (pdf).
Hadavand, A., Gooding, I., Leek, J.T., Can MOOC programs improve student employment prospects?, SSRN Working Paper Series (Link).
Hadavand, A., Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States: 1979-2013, LIS Working Papers (pdf).
Software
- crsra
Hadavand, A., Muschelli, J., Leek, J.T., crsra: Tidying and Analyzing ‘Coursera’ Research Export Data, Available on CRAN, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=crsra.
- citec
Hadavand, A., citec: A Package for Scraping RePEc CitEc Data, Available on https://github.com/ahdvnd/citec.
Patents
Hadavand, A., Sikri, D., Johar, I., Kluger, L., Kadochnikov, N., Dasgupta, S., Senthuran, T., Yoshioka T., Intelligent Identification of White Space Target Entity: A Machine Learning Algorithm for Client/Product Matching, IBM, Patent Pending, August 2016.
Teaching
- Minerva University
Causal Inference (CS130); Econometrics (SS154); Formal Analysis (CS50); Data Science for Social Good; Program and Impact Evaluation
- Columbia University, Barnard College
Economics of Inequality, Econometrics, Introduction to Economic Reasoning, 2016--2017.
- Cloud Based Data Science, Johns Hopkins University
Data Science, 2017--2019
- IBM Chief Analytics Office
Causal Inference, 2016
- Pepsi
Data Entry in R, 2017
- CUNY, Brooklyn College
Graduate Econometrics, Elementary Microeconomics, Elementary Macroeconometrics, 2012--2016.
- Yeshiva University
Econometrics, 2015--2016
- Texas Tech University
Principles of Economics, 2011
Grant, Fellowships, Awards
- Creating Versatile Online Lectures with Dynamic Tools
Co-PI, Johns Hopkins Delta Grant in Digital Education & Learning Technology Acceleration ($50,000), 2019
- Pilot in data science education as an economic intervention in Baltimore
Co-PI, Abell Foundation ($40,000), 2019
- LERA Best Paper Award
LERA 70th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2018
- Dissertation Fellowship Award
CUNY, Graduate Center ($25,000), 2017
- Doctoral Student Research Grant
CUNY, Graduate Center ($2,000), 2017
- Sallie Mae Graduate Student Award
Sallie Mae, ($1,000), 2015
- Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship
CUNY, Graduate Center ($2,000), 2013
- Quantitative Reasoning Fellowship
CUNY, BMCC ($20,000), 2013
- Chancellor’s Fellowship
CUNY, Graduate Center ($25,000 for 5 years), 2011
Invited Talks & Conference Presentations
- Symposium on Data Science & Statistics (SDSS)
Data Science Education as an Economic Mobility Intervention, 2020 (link)
- PAA Annual Meeting
Can MOOC Programs Improve Student Employment Prospects?, 2018
- IDIES Symposium, Johns Hopkins University
Data Science Education as a Mobility Intervention, 2019 (link)
- Iranian National Commission for UNESCO
MOOCs: Challenges and Prospects, 2019 (link)
- University of South Carolina, Dept. of Statistics
Can MOOC Programs Improve Student Employment Prospects?, 2018 (link)
- ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality
Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2017
- PAA Annual Meeting
Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2017
- Eastern Economic Association Conference
Misperception and Mismeasurement of Income Inequality, 2017
- Applied Economics Seminar, CUNY-GC
Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2017
- LIS Seminar Series, CUNY-GC
Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States, 2016
- Columbia University, Barnard College
Teaching with Technology, 2016
- CENS Lab, Stevens Institute of Technology
A Dynamic Model of China's One-Child Policy, 2014
Services & Memberships
- Reviewer
Education Finance and Policy; Energy Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- Member
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), American Economic Association
Projects
- DataTrail
DataTrail, formerly Cloud-Based Data Science (CBDS)) consists of two parts. One, a set of pay-what-you-want (including free!) massive open online courses that can be completed on any computer with a web browser and an internet connection. Read more about the project here. There is an article in JHU Public Health magazine about the program here.
- Cauzl
I am a co-founder of Cauzl which is a platform for learning causal inference, econometrics and statistics in an intuitive and fun way. The project is at its final stages and it is currently being user tested. You can check the website here!
- Inequality.Education
Inequality.education will be a collaborative project by Barnard College students in the course Economics of Inequality, Aboozar Hadavand, and Sarah Thomas. This book will hopefully serve as a source, or an encyclopedia, for undergraduate students interested in inequality through an economic lens. The website will be ready soon and will be the first attempt to create a textbook for an undergraduate Economics of Inequality class.
- The Canvass
The Canvass is the first platform in economics that encourages and facilitates post-publication discussion. The Canvass also aims to encourage research by exposing ideas so that faculty, researchers, and students themselves develop a more nuanced understanding of important issues in economics. Researchers can subscribe to discussions so they will be notified of new development of the debate.