Hamza Mohammad Syed

PhD Candidate in Economics

London School of Economics

h.m.syed@lse.ac.uk

Sir Arthur Lewis Building

32 Lincoln's Inn Fields

London WC2A 3PH, UK

I'm a Development Economist, working on questions related to discrimination and inequality. My Job Market Paper is about the role of preferences and access on identity based residential segregation.

I use tools from applied microeconomics, spatial economics, leveraging primary data collection, experiments, administrative data, machine-learning based data extraction, coupled with theoretical modelling and simulations for my research projects.

Prior to LSE, I worked at J-PAL South Asia on projects in their energy and environment portfolio. I have worked in collaboration with the energy departments in the states of Bihar, Rajasthan, Pubjab, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh. I was involved in scoping, designing, and implementing RCTs, designing and conducting surveys, analysing primary and secondary data, as well as stakeholder management.

I have also worked at HSBC as a risk analyst, using predictive modelling to evaluate the credit risk scorecards for the Asia-Pacific market. 

I enjoy teaching, and want to spend some time every year implementing and conducting research in the field.