Rate My Professor Solmaz Moslehi

Solmaz Moslehi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics within the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and joined the department in late 2010 following a three-month summer internship at the International Monetary Fund. Her research interests lie in macroeconomics, growth theory, public economics, family economics, and political economics. Moslehi is a research affiliate at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (TTPI) and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA). She also serves as a committee member of the Women in Economics Network (WEN) in Victoria. Her research contributes to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), and SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions). She has delivered guest lectures, including at the New Zealand Treasury.

Moslehi has published extensively in top-tier journals. Her most cited paper, "Economic freedom and productivity growth in resource-rich economies" co-authored with Minoo Farhadi and Md Rabiul Islam (World Development, 2015), has garnered over 280 citations. Other prominent publications include "Does home production drive structural transformation?" with Alessio Moro and Satoshi Tanaka (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 66 citations); "Social disorganization theory and crime in the advanced countries: two centuries of evidence" with Zeren Errol and Jakob B. Madsen (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 56 citations); "What has driven the great fertility decline in developing countries since 1960?" with Jakob B. Madsen and Chenggang Wang (Journal of Development Studies, 2018, 33 citations); "Modelling the composition of government expenditure in democracies" with John Creedy (European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 24 citations); "Optimal parental leave subsidization with endogenous fertility and growth" with Siew Ling Yew and Shuyun May Li (Economic Inquiry, 2024); and "Assaults during lockdown in New South Wales and Victoria" with Jaai Parasnis, Manasi Tani, and Jan Vejayaratnam (Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2021). With over 500 citations on Google Scholar, her contributions have influenced discussions in public finance, economic growth, and policy analysis.