Yasaman Saeidi
PhD Candidate in Economics; Job Market 2026/27

About
About
Yasaman is a PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics, supervised by Stephen Machin and Tom Kirchmaier. Her primary research interests are labour economics, the economics of crime and the economics of education, with urban economics as her secondary field.
She studies how the built environment and wider economic conditions shape criminal behaviour and victimisation.
Yasaman is on the job market in 2026/27.
Yasaman holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
Supervisors
Steve Machin
Tom Kirchmaier