About Fariborz Aref

I study how inequality is produced and reproduced across societies, and how communities answer economic and institutional pressure. I hold doctorates in sociology and in community development, master's degrees in survey research and in sociology, and completed postdoctoral research in social and development sciences.

My work centers on inequality and the institutions that produce it: welfare regimes across societies, the labor-market restructuring that follows economic crisis, and the demographic and gendered patterns that shape who gains and who is left behind. A second strand examines how communities and regions build capacity under those same pressures.

Welfare regimes · Comparative inequality · Labor markets · Gender and employment · Demographic change · Community and regional development

I work with multilevel and longitudinal models, structural equation modeling, and survey design, alongside qualitative and computational methods, choosing the approach the question calls for. Analysis in R, Stata, and Python.

Multilevel and longitudinal modeling · Structural equation modeling · Survey measurement · Mixed methods (NVivo) · Computational analysis