Tahir Raza Shah Andrabi is an economist who is the Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.[1]
Andrabi attended Swarthmore College, receiving a BA in 1984. He then received a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. His thesis title was "Essays in International Trade and the Debt Crisis"; his supervisor was Paul Krugman.[2] From 1992 to 1993 he was a visiting scholar at MIT and a postdoctoral research associate at the Harvard/MIT Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy.
Andrabi's research interests include the effects of school choice and the economy of Pakistan.[3]
He began teaching at Pomona College in 1988. In 1999 and 2000, he was on the national economy advisory board of Pakistan.
Andrabi is a native of Pakistan. He is married to Shaila Andrabi, with whom he has three children .[4]