Salehi-Isfahani served as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor at the University of Oxford. He has been a research fellow with the Economic Research Forum,[10] a regional association of Middle Eastern economists based in Cairo, since 1993, and served on their Board of Trustees between 2001 and 2006. He additionally serves on the board of the Middle East Economic Association[11]
^"Government Subsidies and the Demand for Petroleum Products in Iran," Research in Middle East Economics, Vol. 1, 1996: 53-81, JAI Press. First appeared as World Petroleum Markets Working Paper #22, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 1996. Translated and reprinted with modifications as "Pricing of Petroleum Products in Iran," Development and Planning Review, 2(9) winter 1995, 1-31 (in Persian).
^"Models of the Oil Market Revisited," Journal of Energy Literature, 1(1), summer 1995: 3-21. Reprinted in The Economics of Energy, Vol. 1, edited by Paul Stevens, the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, 2000, London: E. Edgar Publishers.
^"Oil Exports, Exchange Rate Appreciation and Demand for Imports in Nigeria," Economic Development and Cultural Change, 37(3), April 1989: 495-512.
^"The Role of the Oil and Gas Sector in Post-Revolutionary Iran," in Kamran Pirouz, ed., Economic Development in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Proceedings of a Conference held March 3, 1995, School of Business Administration, Montclair State University, 1995: 6-12.
^Fertility, Education, and Household Resources in Iran, 1987-1992," Research in Middle East Economics, Vol. 4, Elsevier/JAI Press, 2001.
^"Population, Human Capital, and Economic Growth in Iran," in Ismail Sirageldin, editor, Human Capital: Population Economics in the Middle East, London: I.B. Tauris, and Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2002.