Arman Rezaee

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, Davis

Affiliates: CEGA | IDEAS Pakistan | IGCC | J-PAL

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Publications - Peer-reviewed

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Syed Ali Hasanain, Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee (Forthcoming). "Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan," Economic Development and Cultural Change | NBER Working Paper 21180

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Yasir Khan, Arman Rezaee, and Jacob Shapiro (Forthcoming). "Extending the Formal State: The Case of Pakistan’s Frontier Crimes Regulation," Economica. | PDF

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Syed Ali Hasanain, Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee (2023). "The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan," Journal of Public Economics. PDF | Published version | Coverage in VoxDev

Syed Ali Hasanain, Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee (2023). "No bulls: Asymmetric information in the market for artificial insemination in Pakistan," Journal of Development Economics. PDF | Published version | Coverage in VoxDev

Agha Ali Raza, Mustafa Naseem, Namoos Hayat Qasmi, Shan Randhawa, Fizzah Malik, Behzad Taimur, Sacha St-Onge Ahmad, Sarojini Hirshleifer, Arman Rezaee, and Aditya Vashistha (2022). "Fostering Engagement of Underserved Communities with Credible Health Information on Social Media," The Web Conference (WWW 2022). Published version

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasnain, Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee (2020). "Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan." Journal of Development Economics. PDF | Published version

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, and Arman Rezaee (2020). "Can Political Alignment be Costly?" Journal of Politics. PDF | Published version

Niall Keleher, Mary Claire Barela, Joshua Blumenstock, Cedric Festin, Matthew Podolsky, Arman Rezaee, Erin Troland, and Kurtis Heimerl (2020). "Connecting Isolated Communities: Quantitative Evidence on the Adoption of Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines," Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development. Published version

Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Clark Gibson, James D. Long, and Arman Rezaee (2019). "Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. PDF | Published version

Publications - Books & book chapters

Madon T., Anderson R.J., Casaburi L., Lee K., Rezaee A., Gadgil A.J. (Eds.) (2023). "An Introduction to Development Engineering: A Framework with Applications from the Field." Springer. Published version (open access)

Eskici, B., Long, J., Nair, A., Rezaee, A. (2023). "Digital Governance." In "An Introduction to Development Engineering." Springer. Published version (open access)

Working Papers

Husnain Fateh, Matthew Gibson, Fatiq Nadeem, Sanval Nasim, and Arman Rezaee. "Expectations and Adaptation to Environmental Threats." Revise & resubmit, The Economic Journal. CEGA WPS Paper No. 218 | IZA Discussion Paper No. 15831 | Coverage in VoxDev | Coverage in The Friday Times

Sarojini Hirshleifer, Mustafa Naseem, Agha Ali Raza, and Arman Rezaee. "The spread of (mis)information: A social media experiment in Pakistan." Under review. CEGA Working Paper 213 | UCIGCC Working Paper

Isra Imtiaz, Shotaro Nakamura, Sanval Nasim, and Arman Rezaee. "Beliefs, Signal Quality, and Information Sources: Experimental Evidence on Air Quality in Pakistan." Under review. Working paper

Research in Progress

Joshua Blumenstock, Niall Keleher, Arman Rezaee, and Erin Troland. "The Impact of Mobile Phones: Experimental Evidence from the Random Assignment of New Cell Towers." Working paper coming soon

Isaac Ahimbisibwe, Andy Brownback, Sarojini Hirshleifer, and Arman Rezaee. "Beliefs and the Demand for Employee Training: A Field Experiment with Small Firms in Uganda." Working paper coming soon