The impact of displacement on marriage outcomes of women: Evidence from the partition of India Forced migration can create conditions that lead to early marriage for adolescent women Migration & Urbanisation Frances Lu Sameem Siddiqui Prashant Bharadwaj Published 18.03.22
Building trust in state institutions: Evidence from Pakistan Providing information about reforms in local courts increases trust in state institutions and decreases use of non-state dispute resolution mechanisms Institutions & Political Economy Daron Acemoğlu Ali Cheema Asim Ijaz Khwaja James Robinson Published 09.02.22
Training policymakers in econometrics: Evidence from Pakistan Training deputy ministers in the school of thought associated with the credibility revolution increases demand for and responsiveness to causal evidence Methods & Measurement Sultan Mehmood Shaheen Naseer Daniel Li Chen Published 29.08.21
Can performance pay allow schools to attract and retain better teachers? Evidence from Pakistan Performance pay contracts attract teachers who improve both test score and non-test score outcomes for students Education Christina Brown Tahir Andrabi Published 02.08.21
Training effective altruism: Experimental evidence from Pakistan An experiment in Pakistan finds that training decision makers in the benefits of empathy cultivates prosocial behaviour in the lab and the field Public Economics Sultan Mehmood Shaheen Naseer Daniel Li Chen Published 14.06.21
Helping graduated borrowers through asset-based microfinance: Evidence from Pakistan Borrowers who receive loans for a fixed asset run larger businesses and see higher profits, with positive impacts on household consumption Finance Faisal Bari Kashif Zaheer Malik Muhammad Meki Simon Quinn Published 10.05.21
The impact of presidential appointment of judges: Montesquieu or the federalists? Presidential appointment of judges may be costing Pakistan about 0.14% of GDP or about $400 million in land expropriations every year Institutions & Political Economy Sultan Mehmood Published 29.01.21
Assessing the market forces behind effective education: Evidence from Pakistan In low-income countries, students’ economic background can determine how well their learning needs are matched with their schools’ instructional level Education Natalie Bau Published 25.11.20
Terrorism financing, recruitment, and attacks Financial counterterrorism is under attack for being costly and ineffective, but a new study shows it can reduce terrorist attack casualties Institutions & Political Economy Nicola Limodio Published 17.08.20
