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Zafar Nazarov
Chair of Economics & Finance / Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Finance
Zafar Nazarov
Chair of Economics & Finance / Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Finance
Dr. Zafar Nazarov has research interests in Health, Labor, and Institutional Economics. He received his Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the New Mexico State University and his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina.
After the graduate school, he spent two years as a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development postdoctoral fellow at RAND Corp., where he was involved in the evaluation of complex interactions between various benefits such Workers’ Compensation, Unemployment Insurance and Social Security Disability Insurance and employment outcomes of workers injured at workplace.
Further, he joined a team of disability researchers at Cornell University. His prime research interest was in understanding labor market outcomes of individuals with disabilities, focusing on various work incentives, including employment services embedded into the welfare system. He was a recipient of the Steven Sandell Grant program funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration to investigate the effectiveness of benefit counseling services for SSI/SSDI beneficiaries who sought employment-related services in New York.
He was invited to join the faculty of PFW’s Economics Department in Fall 2013. Since joining the department, he has been teaching various undergraduate (Intro Micro/Macro, Intermediate Micro/Macro, Public Finance, Sports Analytics, Health Economics, Senior Seminar) and graduate-level courses (Decision Making in Economic Environment and a Global Economy and Topics in Finance). His research interest has recently shifted more toward the problems of Institutional Economics, specifically, transition experiences of post-communist countries.
He has published more than 30 research articles in various peer-reviewed journals such as Labour Economics, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science Quarterly, Economics of Transition, Sociological Methods and Research, etc..
After the graduate school, he spent two years as a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development postdoctoral fellow at RAND Corp., where he was involved in the evaluation of complex interactions between various benefits such Workers’ Compensation, Unemployment Insurance and Social Security Disability Insurance and employment outcomes of workers injured at workplace.
Further, he joined a team of disability researchers at Cornell University. His prime research interest was in understanding labor market outcomes of individuals with disabilities, focusing on various work incentives, including employment services embedded into the welfare system. He was a recipient of the Steven Sandell Grant program funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration to investigate the effectiveness of benefit counseling services for SSI/SSDI beneficiaries who sought employment-related services in New York.
He was invited to join the faculty of PFW’s Economics Department in Fall 2013. Since joining the department, he has been teaching various undergraduate (Intro Micro/Macro, Intermediate Micro/Macro, Public Finance, Sports Analytics, Health Economics, Senior Seminar) and graduate-level courses (Decision Making in Economic Environment and a Global Economy and Topics in Finance). His research interest has recently shifted more toward the problems of Institutional Economics, specifically, transition experiences of post-communist countries.
He has published more than 30 research articles in various peer-reviewed journals such as Labour Economics, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science Quarterly, Economics of Transition, Sociological Methods and Research, etc..