Zahra Siddique is a Research fellow at CERP. She is currently the Senior Lecturer in Economics at, the University of Bristol. She joined the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) as a Research Associate in August 2008 and became a Senior Research Associate in August 2011. She earned her PhD from the Department of Economics at Northwestern University in June 2008. Earlier, she received an MA in Economics from Northwestern University and BSc honours from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).