2007-2008 Family Planning and Rural Fertility Decline in Iran: A Study in Program Evaluation, funded by Global Development Network, [with Salehi, and Naghavi]
2007-2008 Childbearing, Labor Supply, and Women’s Well being in Old Age in Iran, funded by GERPA, [with M. Hosseini, D. Bishai et all.]
2006-2007 Preparation of country report on the status of international migrants/refugees in Iran, UNFPA and the UNHCR
2006-2007 Second generation of Afghan migrants in Iran, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006 Revision of graduate level curricula in Demography, UNFPA,
2005-2009 Population and Development Strategies, United Nations Population Fund, Tehran, Program grant
2004-2005 Project Grant on Transnational network among Afghans in Iran, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit,
2004-2006 Project Grant on Low Fertility in Iran, Wellcome Trust, with Peter McDonald,
2000-2003 Project Grant on Iran Fertility Transition Survey, Wellcome Trust, with Peter McDonald,