Ali Ahmed
Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of Applied Microeconomics, Linköping University
Ali Ahmed received a Ph.D. in Economics from Växjö University
in 2005. In 2006, he was awarded
the
Wallander Scholarship
for postdoctoral studies at Växjö University, and two years
later, he was a
Research
Fellow at the University of Gothenburg.
Between 2008 and 2012, he was Associate Professor
of
Economics at
Linnaeus University, Växjö. He is currently Professor of Applied
Microeconomics at
Linköping University. Ahmed is a member of
the editorial advisory board of the journal Ekonomisk Debatt.
Ahmed has mostly carried out research in the field of the
economics of discrimination, but has also conducted
work
on behavioural economics, the economics of religion and the
economics of sexual orientation. His
publications include the
following articles: ‘Choices at Various Levels of Uncertainty: An
Experimental Test
of
the Restated Diversification Theorem’, in
the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (with Göran Skogh, 2006);
‘Group Identity, Social Distance and Intergroup Bias’, in the
Journal of Economic Psychology (2007); and
‘Discrimination in the
Rental Housing Market: A Field Experiment on the Internet’, in
the Journal of Urban
Economics (with Mats Hammarstedt, 2008).
During his fellowship at SCAS, Ahmed will conduct research
on topics such as labour and housing market
discrimination,
gender and sexual identity in the workplace and religious
prosociality.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2014-15.
