Elias Nosrati
Biographic Data
| ID | 259197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elias Nosrati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elias |
| FAMILY NAME | Nosrati |
| SIGNATURE | NOSRATI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0106-1564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Labour, capital, and the nordic health paradox
While Nordic countries are associated with comparatively low levels of economic inequality, their social mortality gradient is comparable in magnitude to that found in far less egalitarian societies, a phenomenon commonly referred to as ‘the Nordic health paradox’. This paper argues that much of this apparent paradox may stem from an overly narrow conception of economic inequality, which tends to be centred around the distribution of labour marke…
The IMF, Structural Adjustment, and Poverty
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been one of the world’s most powerful international organisations in setting the parameters for economic reforms in the developing world. In this study, using annual cross-national data from 1980–2019, we investigate the impact of the IMF’s lending programmes on poverty incidence in participant countries. Departing from the prevailing practice of relying on instrumental variables, we employ a novel differ…
Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world
BACKGROUND: Educational mobility is considered a key driver of population health. While prior studies suggest that intergenerational equality of opportunity may be linked to mortality, most evidence comes from high-income countries. Little is known about whether these associations apply globally. OBJECTIVE: This study assesses the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and all-cause mortality across a global sample of countri…
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation
The question of how to design socially optimal tax policies is located at the epicenter of today’s inequality debate. However, the field of optimal policy design is dominated by a distinctive brand of economic analysis which suffers from a blinkered theoretical lens and weak empirical foundations. This article offers an alternative framework for studying optimal policy design that replaces the dominant economic model’s emphasis on individual util…
Infant mortality and social causality
What are the historical conditions under which a sociologically informed understanding of health inequality can emerge in the public sphere? We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle-the stubborn persistence of and salient variation in high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns at the dawn of the previous century-as analysed by Arthur Newsholme, the Medical Officer of the Local …
Structural adjustment and the political economy of capital flight
The financial haemorrhaging of lower income countries in the form of capital flight is a leading cause of global economic inequality. On an annual basis, trillions of dollars bypass the already starved fiscal spaces of nations mired in poverty, making their way instead to lucrative offshore bank accounts governed by secrecy jurisdictions. The present article relates this phenomenon to the institutional architecture of the global financial system …
Crash for cash
A growing body of literature scrutinizes the harmful consequences of capital flight to offshore financial destinations. While financial integration is a well-known facilitator of capital flight, we shed light on an under-appreciated determinant—the availability of an IMF bailout. Expanding on previous literature analyzing moral hazard in the context of IMF programs, we introduce a socially even more destructive mechanism that we label the ‘crash …
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective
A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm at the bottom of the class structure. In the present review, we compare this population health crisis to that which ravaged Eastern Europe at the tail end of the previous century. We chart their common upstream causes: violent social dislocations wrought by ra…
Incarceration and mortality in the United States
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role of America's overcrowded prisons as vectors of ill health, but robust analyses of the degree to which high rates of incarceration impact population-level health outcomes remain scarce. In this paper, we use county-level panel data from 2927 counties across 43 states between 1983 and 2014 and a novel instrumental variable technique to study the causal effect of penal expansion on age-standardi…
Punitive social policy
Gender, health and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
Gender refers to the social relationships between males and females in terms of their roles, behaviours, activities, attributes and opportunities, and which are based on different levels of power. Gender interacts with, but is distinct from, the binary categories of biological sex. In this paper we consider how gender interacts with the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, including sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 and its targets for hea…
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective
A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm at the bottom of the class structure. In the present review, we compare this population health crisis to that which ravaged Eastern Europe at the tail end of the previous century. We chart their common upstream causes: violent social dislocations wrought by ra…
Structural adjustment and the political economy of capital flight
The financial haemorrhaging of lower income countries in the form of capital flight is a leading cause of global economic inequality. On an annual basis, trillions of dollars bypass the already starved fiscal spaces of nations mired in poverty, making their way instead to lucrative offshore bank accounts governed by secrecy jurisdictions. The present article relates this phenomenon to the institutional architecture of the global financial system …
Infant mortality and social causality
What are the historical conditions under which a sociologically informed understanding of health inequality can emerge in the public sphere? We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle-the stubborn persistence of and salient variation in high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns at the dawn of the previous century-as analysed by Arthur Newsholme, the Medical Officer of the Local …
Gender, health and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
Gender refers to the social relationships between males and females in terms of their roles, behaviours, activities, attributes and opportunities, and which are based on different levels of power. Gender interacts with, but is distinct from, the binary categories of biological sex. In this paper we consider how gender interacts with the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, including sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 and its targets for hea…
Punitive social policy
Incarceration and mortality in the United States
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role of America's overcrowded prisons as vectors of ill health, but robust analyses of the degree to which high rates of incarceration impact population-level health outcomes remain scarce. In this paper, we use county-level panel data from 2927 counties across 43 states between 1983 and 2014 and a novel instrumental variable technique to study the causal effect of penal expansion on age-standardi…
Deaths of Despair in Comparative Perspective
A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm at the bottom of the class structure. In the present review, we compare this population health crisis to that which ravaged Eastern Europe at the tail end of the previous century. We chart their common upstream causes: violent social dislocations wrought by ra…
Crash for cash
A growing body of literature scrutinizes the harmful consequences of capital flight to offshore financial destinations. While financial integration is a well-known facilitator of capital flight, we shed light on an under-appreciated determinant—the availability of an IMF bailout. Expanding on previous literature analyzing moral hazard in the context of IMF programs, we introduce a socially even more destructive mechanism that we label the ‘crash …
Infant mortality and social causality
What are the historical conditions under which a sociologically informed understanding of health inequality can emerge in the public sphere? We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle-the stubborn persistence of and salient variation in high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns at the dawn of the previous century-as analysed by Arthur Newsholme, the Medical Officer of the Local …
Structural adjustment and the political economy of capital flight
The financial haemorrhaging of lower income countries in the form of capital flight is a leading cause of global economic inequality. On an annual basis, trillions of dollars bypass the already starved fiscal spaces of nations mired in poverty, making their way instead to lucrative offshore bank accounts governed by secrecy jurisdictions. The present article relates this phenomenon to the institutional architecture of the global financial system …
Equality of opportunity and mortality around the world
BACKGROUND: Educational mobility is considered a key driver of population health. While prior studies suggest that intergenerational equality of opportunity may be linked to mortality, most evidence comes from high-income countries. Little is known about whether these associations apply globally. OBJECTIVE: This study assesses the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and all-cause mortality across a global sample of countri…
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation
The question of how to design socially optimal tax policies is located at the epicenter of today’s inequality debate. However, the field of optimal policy design is dominated by a distinctive brand of economic analysis which suffers from a blinkered theoretical lens and weak empirical foundations. This article offers an alternative framework for studying optimal policy design that replaces the dominant economic model’s emphasis on individual util…
Labour, capital, and the nordic health paradox
While Nordic countries are associated with comparatively low levels of economic inequality, their social mortality gradient is comparable in magnitude to that found in far less egalitarian societies, a phenomenon commonly referred to as ‘the Nordic health paradox’. This paper argues that much of this apparent paradox may stem from an overly narrow conception of economic inequality, which tends to be centred around the distribution of labour marke…
The IMF, Structural Adjustment, and Poverty
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been one of the world’s most powerful international organisations in setting the parameters for economic reforms in the developing world. In this study, using annual cross-national data from 1980–2019, we investigate the impact of the IMF’s lending programmes on poverty incidence in participant countries. Departing from the prevailing practice of relying on instrumental variables, we employ a novel differ…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)