Shadi Farahzadi

PhD Student

Expertise: labour economics, development economics

Email:

s.farahzadi@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.12 H

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Biography

Shadi is a PhD candidate in Economics at LSE. Her main fields of interest are Labour and Development Economics. Her current research projects focus on the economics of family (interreligious marriage in the UK) and education (effect of school segregation on students' educational attainment). Shadi holds a BSc in Physics and MSc in Economics from Sharif University of Technology. She has previously worked as a researcher for the Ministry of Labour of Iran.

Latest

CEP discussion papers

The integration penalty: Impact of 9/11 on the Muslim marriage market

05 December 2024

Shadi Farahzadi

Major sociopolitical events can have lasting impacts on integration through changing marriage preferences. Marriage markets, due to their unregulated nature, both reflect and affect integration in society. I use 9/11 as ... Read more...

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Importing Love: Muslim Marriage Migration to the UK

12 October 2023

Shadi Farahzadi (LSE)

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Importing Love: Muslim Marriage Migration to the UK.

05 October 2023

Shadi Farahzadi (LSE)

Marriage migration is a considerable component of migration to OECD countries, but its economic drivers are underexplored. Muslims, a significant and growing population in OECD countries, exhibit a notable rate of marria... Read more...