Om mig
Description:
Roujman Shahbazian is a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Sociology at University of Munich, and affiliated researcher at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
Research:
His research focuses on social stratification, family sociology and development studies. Currently he is involvement in an interdisciplinary project about income inequalities across life. More specifically, studying the role of class, gender and skills for lifetime income, which is a FORTE finance project Dnr: 2018-00532 (with E. Bihagen, A. Böhlmark and S. Kjellsson). He has also a collaboration with M.H. Sepahvand that focuses on Burkina Faso and one core dimension of individuals' preferences: attitudes toward risk.
Peer reviewed articles:
- Shahbazian, R. (forthcoming). Under the Influence of Our Older Brother and Sister: The Association between Sibling Gender Configuration and STEM Degrees. Social Science Research.
- Sepahvand, M.H. & Shahbazian, R. (2021). Sibling correlation in risk attitudes: Evidence from Burkina Faso. Journal of Economic Inequality, 19(1), pp 45-72. Working Paper-version from 2018 is available here.
- Sepahvand, M.H. & Shahbazian, R. (forthcoming). Intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes in Burkina Faso. Empirical Economics. Working paper-version from 2017 is available here.
- Sepahvand, M.H. & Shahbazian, R. (forthcoming). Individual’s Risk Attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants and Reliability of Self-Reported Risk in Burkina Faso. African Review of Economics & Finance. Working paper-version from 2017 is available here.
- Shahbazian, R. (2020). The consequence of birth spacing for first- and second-born siblings’ long-term income rank: A restrictive two-child family approach. Journal of Family Research, 32(1), pp. 72-104.
- Shahbazian, R. (2020). Is there any difference between having a brother or having a sister? The association between sex-composition and socioeconomic outcomes in Swedish two-and three-child families. Journal of Family Studies, 26(3), pp. 362-388