Publications

peer-reviewed journal articles

• "Oil Prices and International Conflict: Why Low Oil Revenue May Not Pacify Petrostates", 2024, International Interactions, (with Brian Blankenship, Qaraman Hasan, Indra Overland, Johannes Urpelainen)

• “Stepping into the Just Transition Journey: The Energy Transition in Petrostates”, 2024, Energy Research & Social Science, 113 (with Brian Blankenship , Qaraman Hasan, Raphael J. Heffron, Indra Overland, Johannes Urpelainen)

• "An empirical analysis on the relationship between resource rents and education: The role of institutional quality thresholds", 2023, International Review of Economics, 70, pp. 217-236 

• "Natural Resources, Institutions and the Quality-adjusted Human Capital", 2022, Journal of Economic Studies, 49 (6), pp. 1033-1054

• "The distributional dimension of the resource curse: Commodity price shocks and income inequality", 2021, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 59, pp. 63-78 (with David Castells-Quintana)

• “Gendered Impacts of Oil Price Shocks: Analyzing Women’s Labor Force Participation in Petrostates.” Energy Research & Social Science, accepted May 2025.
  (with Brian Blankenship, Qaraman Hasan, Indra Overland, Stella Tsani, Johannes Urpelainen)

• “Oil Rents and Educational Inequality: New Cross-Country Evidence.” In Natural Resources and Inequality (Book Chapter, forthcoming 2025).
  (with Mohammad Reza Farzanegan)