Dr Zahra Siddique
PhD
Expertise
My research interests are in micro-econometrics, labour economics and development.
Current positions
Associate Professor in Economics
School of Economics
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Biography
I grew up in Pakistan and completed my undergraduate degree from the Lahore University of Management Sciences. I went on to complete my PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in the US. I have since worked at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany and at the University of Reading. I joined the School of Economics at the University of Bristol in 2018.
Research interests
My research interests are in micro-econometrics, labour economics and development. I have investigated research questions related to gender and the labour market as well as identification of treatment effects using data generated from social experiments.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/10/2025Gendered language in job ads and applicant behavior
Labour Economics
Using Domain Specific Word Embeddings to Examine the Demand for Skills
Big Data Applications in Labor Economics
Estimating endogenous effects on ordinal outcomes
Review of Economics and Statistics
Media-reported violence and female labor supply
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Measuring gender attitudes using list experiments
Journal of Population Economics
Teaching
I co-teach Gender, Race and Identity in Economics and Economics of Developing Countries; both are optional third year units for undergraduate students at the University of Bristol. Previously I have taught the topic of Discrimination in the Labour Market in the Applied Economic Dissertation at the University of Bristol and Introductory Quantitative Methods, Introductory Econometrics and Intermediate Econometrics to undergraduate students at the University of Reading.