Dr. Mehdi Barati
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Mehdi Barati holds the position of Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Mississippi. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2017. Dr. Barati's research interests encompass applied microeconomics, focusing particularly on health economics and the economics of crime. His research delves into issues concerning efficiency in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Additionally, he investigates the causes and consequences of crime, along with exploring strategies to mitigate the societal costs associated with it. Dr. Barati is recognized for his expertise in economic modeling and employs advanced econometric, statistical, and machine learning techniques in his empirical research.
- PHD - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2017)
- MS - University of Tehran (2010)
- BA - Shahid Beheshti University (2007)
Basic Economics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Price Theory
Income Theory
Health Economics
Economics of Crime
Labor Economics
Business Statistics
Econometrics
Capstone
History of Economic Thoughts
- Asymmetric effect of income on the US healthcare expenditure: evidence from the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach, Empirical Economics, 2020
- Technology progress and rising healthcare expenditure in the US, Applied Economics Letters, 2020
- Enhanced penalties for carrying firearms illegally and their effects on crime, Economic Analysis and Policy, 2019
- Punishment Severity and Crime: The Case of Arkansas., Review of Law & Economic, 2018
- Extended Perioperative Antibiotic Coverage in Conjunction with Intraoperative Bile Cultures Decreases Infectious Complications after Pancreaticoduodenectomy., HPB Surgery, 2016
- New evidence on the impact of concealed carry weapon laws on crime., International Review of Law and Economics, 2016
- Validation and testing of the AquaCrop model under full and deficit irrigated wheat production in Iran., Agricultural Water Management, 2011
- Investigation of Replacing the Oil’s Revenues from Dollar to Euro., The Journal of Economic Policy , 2010
- American Economic Association
- Southern Economic Association
- Persian (Native or Bilingual)
- English (Full Professional)