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Dr Mohammad Almomani
School of Management
College of Business and Law
Dr Mohammad Almomani is an Economist and Academic in the School of Management, College of Business and Law. His research sits at the intersection of health economics and the economics of ageing, examining how retirement, education and pension policy shape functional independence, health and aged-care need in later life.
His empirical work uses quasi-experimental methods, including fuzzy regression discontinuity, fixed-effects instrumental variables and staggered difference-in-differences designs, applied to large longitudinal surveys such as SHARE, HILDA and the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. His current projects estimate how the effect of retirement on functional independence varies by occupation, and what education can do to reduce preventable aged-care need in Australia. He has published nine refereed articles since 2025, in journals including Applied Economics and the Journal of Economic Studies, and has presented his work in Leiden, Boston and Berlin.
Mohammad is a Junior Fellow of the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar), an Affiliate Researcher with the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and an Adjunct Academic at Flinders University. At Adelaide University he teaches in the Adelaide-Accenture Innovation Academy for Digital Business and is Academic for courses redevelopment program. Before his PhD, he worked as an Economic and Energy Market Analyst in Qatar, building forecasting models for energy demand and prices.
Research focus
My research examines how retirement, education and pension policy shape functional independence, health and aged-care need in later life. I study these questions with quasi-experimental designs that exploit statutory retirement-eligibility ages and education reforms, applied to large longitudinal surveys from Europe and Australia.
Current projects
- Retirement and functional independence. How the effect of retirement on daily functioning varies with pre-retirement occupation, and what this implies for raising pension eligibility ages.
- Education and preventable aged-care need. Whether education reduces later-life care need among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults in Australia.
- Costs of age-related care. The economic costs of care needs among Australian women, using the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health.
- Healthy ageing in Australia. Functional decline, aged-care use and wellbeing among older Australians, using the HILDA Survey.
Methods and data
Methods: fuzzy regression discontinuity, fixed-effects instrumental variables (FE-IV), IV-2SLS, staggered difference-in-differences and event-study designs, and time-series forecasting.
Data:
- HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey)
- ALSWH (Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health)
- SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe)
- ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics Microdata)
- JLMPS (Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey)
- JPFHS (Jordan Population and Family Health Survey)
Affiliations
- Junior Fellow, Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar)
- Affiliate Researcher, Global Labor Organization (GLO)
- Affliate Researcher, CEPAR – ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, NSW University
- Adjunct Academic, Flinders University
- Member, Women in Economics Network
- Member, Economic Society of Australia
- Referee for the Journal of Population Economics and the Journal of Economic Studies
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 - 2029 | Adjunct Academic | Flinders University |
| 2026 - ongoing | Lecturer | Flinders University Academy |
| 2025 - ongoing | Lecurer | Adelaide University |
| 2024 - 2026 | Lecturer | Flinders University |
| 2019 - 2022 | Economic and Energy Market Analyst | Mubadara |
| 2016 - 2019 | Teaching Assistant | Yarmouk University |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Research Award | Travel Grant, Netspar International Pension Workshop | Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) | Netherlands | - |
| 2026 | Recognition | Selected Mentee, DASSH Mentoring Program | Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) | Australia | - |
| 2025 | Research Award | Travel Grant, Boston University Education, Aging and Health Conference (NIA/NIH) | Boston University | United States | - |
| 2024 | Research Award | Travel Grant, SHARE-Gateway User Conference, Berlin (European Commission) | European Commission | Germany | - |
| 2023 | Research Award | Internal Research Grant, Flinders University | Flinders University | Australia | - |
| Language | Competency |
|---|---|
| English | Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2025 | Flinders University | Australia | PhD of Business (Economics) |
| 2019 | Yarmouk University | Jordan | MA in Economics |
| 2015 | Yarmouk University | Jordan | BSc in Business Economics |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Almomani, M., & Onur, I. (2026). Occupational Variation in the Impact of Retirement on Functional Independence: Evidence from SHARE. DOI |
| 2026 | Almomani, M., & Yousef, N. (2026). Retirement, Energy Poverty and the Targeting of Energy Concessions: Evidence From Australia's Age Pension Reforms. DOI |
| 2026 | Almomani, M., & Onur, I. (2026). Hope, Positive Life Events, and Health Outcomes: Evidence from the HILDA Longitudinal Survey. DOI |
| 2026 | Almomani, M., & Al-Masaeid, M. (2026). Locus of Control and Body Mass in Later Life: Panel Evidence from Ten European Countries. DOI |
| 2025 | Almomani, M. (2025). Ageing with Purpose: Factors Shaping Well-being and Behaviour in Older Lives - Insights From the SHARE Database. DOI |
- 2026: Travel Grant, Netspar International Pension Workshop, Leiden, the Netherlands
- 2025: Travel Grant, Boston University Education, Aging and Health Conference (NIA/NIH)
- 2024: Travel Grant, SHARE-Gateway User Conference, Berlin (European Commission)
- 2023: Internal Research Grant, Flinders University
Courses I teach
- BUSI 2023 Digital Solution Methodologies (2025, 2026)
- BUSI 1015 Introduction to Digital Disruption in Business (2026)
- BUSI 1002 Management, Organisations and Leadership (2026)
- BUSI 2002 Negotiation, Conflict Management and Resolution (2026)
Other teaching experience
- Flinders University (2024 to 2026): Assessing Economic Environments; Applying Economics for Business; Coding for Business (Python); Interpreting and Visualising Business Data
- Flinders University Academy (2026 to present): business and economics subjects in the Diploma in Business
- Yarmouk University, Jordan (2016 to 2019): Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics
| Date | Role | Membership | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 - ongoing | Member | Economic Society of Australia | Australia |
| 2025 - ongoing | Member | Global Labor Organization (GLO) | Germany |
| Date | Event Name | Event Type | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Flinders Business Research Day | Conference | Flinders University | Australia |
| Date | Topic | Presented at | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 - ongoing | Occupational Variation in the Impact of Retirement on Functional Independence: Evidence from SHARE | Netspar International Pension Workshop | Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) | Netherlands |
| 2025 - ongoing | Education and Volunteering for Older Adults: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe | Gateway to Global Aging Data Conference | Boston University | United States |
| 2024 - ongoing | Emotional Closeness and Life Expectancy: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe | SHARE-Gateway User Conference | SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) | Germany |
| Date | Title | Type | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | Referee, Journal of Population Economics | Journal Review | Journal of Population Economics (Springer) | - |
| 2025 - ongoing | Referee, Journal of Economic Studies | Journal Review | Journal of Economic Studies (Emerald) | - |
| Date | Title | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 - ongoing | Junior Fellow, Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar) | - | Selected as a Junior Fellow of Netspar, the Dutch network for research on pensions, ageing and retirement, supporting research on retirement, functional independence and pension policy. |
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