Select Grants 

1)  U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) , 2020-2023

Role:  Principal Investigator  for Labor Market Assessment and Value Chain Assessment

.Graduating to Resilience is a USD ~37 million seven-year activity (October 2017-September 2024) funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). The activity aims to identify the most cost-effective graduation approach to meet food security and nutrition challenges of extremely poor refugee and host country households. Dr. Majid managed the overall assessments, co-created with implementers (AVSI & Trickle Up) a complex large scale household survey and led the mixed methods evaluation study. He has also lead dissemination of findings through conferences. 

2) National Institutes of Health (NIH) R03 Grant,  2019-2021

Role: Principal Investigator 

Household income at birth and preschool child health: We study Minimum wages around the time of birth and their causal effects on child nutrition in Indonesia up to 5y after birth

3) The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2016-2019

Role : Co-Investigator (PI: Sonia Laszlo) 

Cash transfers, fertility and women’s empowerment: Studying the unintended effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program in Peru, on fertility outcomes via improvements in women’s bargaining.

4)  Grand Challenge Canada/Gates Foundation, 2012-2014

Role: Post Doc Researcher (PI: J Behrman) 

SAVING BRAINS: Determine the economic impact of poverty-related risk factors for cognitive development and human capital Developed framework and populating parameters with best available evidence from longitudinal samples over significant segments of the life cycle on the impacts and costs of remedial interventions over the life cycle of deficits in first 1000 days of life in developing countries.