Submitted/Under review

• Female community-driven development and empowerment: An RCT in Pakistan. (Latest draft)  

Joint with Andreas Landmann, Muhammad Karim, and Fazal Ali Khan. Under review

• Unlocking Global Markets: The Impact of International Standards Certification on Pakistani Firms’ Export Performance. (Latest draft )

Joint with Azam Chaudhry. Under review

Publications

• Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers: Evidence from Pakistan. 

Technovation (2024). Vol. 136. (Working paper)

• Ethnic Diversity, Concentration of Political Power, and the Curse of Natural Resources. 

Economia Politica, (2023), Volume 40. ( Final paper Working paper) 

• Innovation Strategies and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Firm-level Evidence from Pakistani Manufacturers. 

Journal of Asian Economics, (2022), Vol 81. (Final paper Working paper  Media)

• Faultlines in Family SMEs: The U-shape effect of family control on innovativeness and performance. 

M@n@gement (2023). Volume 26, Issue 3. (Open access)

• Unskilled Migration and Human Capital Accumulation of Left Behind Children in the Presence of Parental Absenteeism. 

Lahore Journal of Economics (2020), Volume 25:2. (Open access)

• Young innovative companies and employment creation, evidence from the Pakistani textiles sector. 

World Development, (2019), Volume 117. (Final paper Working paper  Media 1 Media 2 )

• Identifying and Understanding the High Growth Firms in Pakistani Textiles and Apparel sectors. 

Lahore Journal of Economics (2019), Volume 24, Issue 2. (Open access)

• Innovation and Firm Performance in Developing Countries: The case of Pakistani Textiles and Apparel Manufacturers . 

Research Policy (2018), Volume 47, Issue 7. (Final paper Media) 

• Government size and economic growth in an endogenous growth model with rent-seeking. 

Economics & Politics (2018), Volume 30, Issue 1.9. (Final paper Working paper) 

• Corruption, Tax Evasion and the role of Wage Incentives with Endogenous Monitoring Technology. 

Economic Inquiry (2016). Volume 54, Issue 1, pp 391-407. (Final paper Working paper)  

• Education, Rent seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources. 

Economics & Politics (2014). Volume 26, Issue 1, pp 128-156. (Final paper Working paper)  

• Control Rights, Bureaucratic Corruption and the Allocation of Resources. 

European Journal of Law and Economics (2013). Volume 35, Issue 1. (Final paper)

Funded Projects

• Managers’ and Households’ Attitude Toward Women Working in Factories: Role Model Firms and Information Interventions in Pakistan (2024-26). 

Funded by PEDL major grant (£110,000, as a PI)

• Community Driven Development in Rural Pakistan: Impact evaluation of the SUCCESS program (2017-23). 

Funded by the EU-SUCCESS (€ 454,000 as a Co-PI)

• Innovation and Firm Growth in the Pakistani Textile Sector: Do Young and Innovative Firms Grow Faster? (2018-19). 

Funded by the GCRF (£‎45,401 as a Co-PI).

• Spatial proximity, knowledge networks and firm performance: The case of Sialkot surgical instrument cluster in Pakistan (2018-19). 

Funded by the Lahore School of Economics ($7,000, as a Co-PI)

• Measuring Innovation in the Textiles Sector of Pakistan (2014-15). 

Funded by the International Growth Center (£‎20,000, as a PI)

• Analyzing the extent and nature of bureaucratic corruption in Pakistan (2018-19). 

Funded by the Lahore School of Economics ($5,000, as a Co-PI).

Ongoing Research

Experimental

• 2024-2026: Managers’ and Households’ Attitude Toward Women Working in Factories: Role Model Firms and Information Interventions in Pakistan. Joint with Anri Sakakibara and Abu Siddique. 

• 2016-2024: Female community-driven development and empowerment: An RCT in Pakistan. Joint with Muhammad Karim, Andreas Landmann, and Fazal Sadi. 

Empirical research

• Family control, management quality, and firm productivity in Pakistan. Joint with Azam Chaudhry

• International certification and firm performance: Evidence from Pakistan. Joint with Azam Chaudhry. 

• Analyzing the extent and nature of bureaucratic corruption in Pakistan. Joint with Shaheen Naseer

Theoretical research

• Investment in Early Childhood Health and its implications for Economic Growth. Joint with Muhammad Naveed and Umair Ayaz

Working Papers

• Unlocking Global Markets: The Impact of International Standards Certification on Pakistani Firms’ Export Performance. GLO Discussion Paper Series No. 1611

• Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms: Evidence from Pakistan. GLO Discussion Paper Series No. 1443

• Ethnic Diversity, Concentration of Political Power and the Curse of Natural Resources. GLO Discussion Paper Series No. 611

• Innovation Strategies and Productivity Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan. GLO Discussion Paper Series No. 466

• Do young and innovative firms grow faster? Evidence from the Pakistani textiles sector. United Nations University (UNU-Merit) Working paper 2019-02 

• Rent-seeking, Government Size and Economic Growth. GLO Discussion Paper, No. 131 

• Education, Rent-seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources

• Steal if You Need. Capitulation Wages with Endogenous Monitoring.

Policy Briefs

• Geography of poverty and industrial clusters in Pakistan: Some policy implications. Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

• Innovation in the Textiles sector of Pakistan. International Growth Center