Ehsan Mohaghegh Dowlatabadi

Ph.D. Job Market Candidate, Economics Department

Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Highest degree earned

M.S., Economics, Binghamton University, 2020

Graduate Student Dissertation

The Smartphone Effect: Mobile Broadband and Health at Birth

Bio

Ehsan Mohaghegh Dowlatabadi is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School and a graduate research associate at the Center for Policy Research. His research examines how public policies and new technologies shape health and economic well-being, with a focus on health insurance, maternal and infant health, and household financial security.

His current projects explore the effects of smartphone access on infant health, Medicaid coverage reductions on birth outcomes, and Medicare prescription drug coverage on health and financial protection. He received Syracuse University's Research Excellence Doctoral Funding (REDF) award in recognition of his research and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2024.

Research Interests

Health economics, public economics