Goya Razavi

I’m a PhD Candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, on the 2024-25 Economics Job Market. You can find my CV here.

My research interests include Labor Economics, Economics of Education and Urban Economics.

My research focuses on understanding the determinants of socio-economic inequality to inform the design of public policies aimed at fostering social mobility. To that end, I build on frontier econometric methods and rich administrative datasets.

I’m a Research Associate at The Center for the Economics of Human Development, an Urban Doctoral Fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, and member of the Inequality Working Group at the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility.

I hold a BSc in Economics and MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the London School of Economics (LSE). Prior to my PhD, I contributed to policy analysis for the European Commission and the United Nations.