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I’m involved in several unique data collection projects. First, I’m a lead coordinator on the Iran Social Survey, or ISS. The ISS is a nationally representative survey conducted over landline telephone, and is currently the largest academic survey conducted inside Iran (N=5005). It covers topics such as labor market participation, social background, language & ethnicity, and political & economic behavior and preferences. So far, we have fielded two waves of the survey, in 2017 and 2022.
I also compiled a large dataset on labor protests as part of my dissertation project. This dataset, the Iran Economic Protest Database (IEPD), provides detailed information on the changing shape and intensity of labor contention in Iran over the course of the sanction period (2010-22). It was created using a combination of web scraping, automated-, and manual coding techniques. The IEPD helps us better understand how workers and authorities bargain in contexts of geo-economic crisis.
At UCLA, my work was supported by the Social Science Research Council‘s International Dissertation Research Fellowship. My dissertation research also received generous outside support from the The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and The Bourse and Bazaar Foundation.
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