Rate My Professor Sara Anaraki

Prior to joining Metropolitan Community College, Dr. Anaraki was a PhD student and Sessional Instructor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. She taught ECON 2J03 Environmental Economics, conducting office hours in KTH 402. As a research assistant affiliated with McMaster's Department of Economics, she contributed to peer-reviewed publications. In 2012, she co-authored 'Projections of oil demand in road transportation sector on the basis of vehicle ownership projections, worldwide: 1972–2020' in Economic Modelling. The study employed the Gompertz model on data from 154 countries to forecast vehicle ownership and oil demand, projecting a rise to 14,748 million barrels of oil equivalent by 2020 under business-as-usual conditions, or 11,601 mboe with policy-driven fuel efficiency gains. In 2019, she served as research assistant for 'Cigarette consumption estimates for 71 countries from 1970 to 2015: systematic collection of comparable data to facilitate quasi-experimental evaluations of national and global tobacco control interventions,' published in The BMJ. These works reflect her engagement in transportation economics, energy demand modeling, environmental economics, and tobacco control analysis.