Working Papers and Current Projects
Working Papers
Optimising SARS-Cov-2 Pooled Testing For Low-Resource Settings (with Majid, F. and Omer S.B.)
Finance
Bank Credit and Business Networks (with A. Mian, Princeton and A. Qamar, State Bank of Pakistan), WP 2011.
Identifying Business Networks in Emerging Economies (with A. Mian, Princeton and A. Qamar, State Bank of Pakistan), WP 2005.
Education
Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium (with T. Andrabi, N. Bau, and J. Das), WP 2022.
Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19 (with I. Ganguli, UMass Amherst, J. Ibrahim Haidar, S. Stemper, and B. Zafar, Harvard Kennedy School), WP 2022.
Institutions
Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Constraints faced by Women in Accessing Valuable Skilling Opportunities (with A. Cheema, F. Naseer, and J. Shapiro). WP August 2023.
Current Projects
Finance
Financing for Firms: Experimental Innovations in South Africa (with B. Klinger, Harvard University)
Divided We Fall: Understanding Retail Clusters (with J. Das, DECRG World Bank, and A. Mian, U of Chicago, GSB)
Education
How Effective are Parent-Teacher School Councils? Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country (with T. Andrabi, Pomona, and J.Das, DECRG World Bank)
Information and Choices: Examining Parental Investments Across Children (with T. Andrabi, Pomona, J.Das, DECRG World Bank, and J. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Skills, Beliefs, and Development: Examining skill-enhancing interventions in Pakistan (with A. Cheema, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), F. Naseer, LUMS, and Jacob Shapiro, Princeton)
Institutions
Rebuilding the Social Compact: Urban Service Delivery and Property Taxes in Pakistan (with A. Khan, M. Shaukat and B. Olken).
The Big March: Consequences of the 1947 Partition of India (with A. Mian, U of Chicago, GSB)
Identifying the Impact of Decentralization: Evidence from Pakistan (with A. Cheema, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and A. Qadir, Pakistan Administrative Staff College)