Welcome to my website.
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University (Oxford Martin School) in Future of Development Group.
Before joining Oxford, I have worked as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Lahore School of Economics and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB).
I hold a Ph.D. from Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
Primary email: shaheen.naseer@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Secondary Email: ranashaheen133@gmail.com
Areas of Interest:
Development Economics, State Capacity, Social Preferences, Norms, Gender
RESEARCH PAPERS
Training Altruism Effectively (with D. Chen and S. Mehmood) - Global Priorities Research Prize 2022 - AEA RCT Registry -
Training in Econometrics (with D. Chen and S. Mehmood) - AEA RCT Registry - Submitted
Transmitting Rights - AEA RCT Registry - under revision
VoxDev Policy Column
Why are Rights Revolutions Rare? - AEA RCT Registry - Submitted
Role Models Matter for Covid Vaccinations and Conditional Cash Transfers Do Not: Impact on QR Code Verified Vaccinations - Submitted
Religion and Tradition in Conflict. Experimentally Testing the Power of Social Norms to Invalidate Religious Law (with Christoph Engel And Klaus Heine) - Submitted
The Ripple Effect of AI Training on Policymakers and Citizens: Unintended Consequences in a Developing Nation - Preregistered Trial at AEA RCT Registry
Beliefs as Assets: An Experimental Methodology to Estimate Beliefs
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
The Effect of Misinformation among Policymakers - Preregistered Trial at AEA RCT Registry and Pre-Analysis Plan Preregistered at OSF RCT Registry
Why Do You Want Public Office Job: Elite Bureaucrats Motivations To Join Service (with Laura Metzger) - Working Paper Coming Soon.
Measuring Corruption in Pakistan (with Waqar Wadho) - Working Paper Coming Soon.
Reshaping Beliefs about Ourselves And Others: Experimental Evidence from Civil servants in Pakistan Preregistered Trial at AEA RCT Registry
Mental Health, Teacher Stress and Student Achievement - Preregistered Trial at AEA RCT Registry
FUNDING
IGC (£2,0000): "Strengthening Tax Collection in Pakistan through AI-Integrated Technology"
Lahore School Research Development Fund ($5,000): Measuring Corruption in Pakistan
THEORY PAPERS
Bureaucratic Identity and The Shape of Public Policy: A Game-Theoretic Analysis (With Klaus Heine)
Bureaucratic Power and The Imprint of The Past – The Case Of Pakistan (With Klaus Heine)
Organizational Inertia and Public Bureaucracy: The Imprint of The Bureaucrat (With Klaus Heine)
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2022: ASREC, SOIE, Royal Economics Society, World Bank South Asian Conference, Conference on Behavioral Economics and Development at the Stanford King Center on Global Development, IOEA 2022, University of Chicago's Advances in Field Experiments 2022
2021: "Training Effective Altruism" and "An Experiment Testing Social norms of Inheritance in Pakistan" at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in Seattle from September 28 - October, 2, 2021. NBER Fall Development Meeting 2021, Winter Meeting of Econometric Society 2021.
2021 Seminars: Toulouse University Experimental Economics seminar, World Bank (D.C.) internal research seminar, Aix-Marseille University (France): Behavioural Economics internal seminar, New School of Economics. EPE Lecture on Effective Altruism
2020: Bonn University (Germany): Experimental Economics internal seminar
2015-2019
Annual Meeting American Political Science Association APSA 2019, Washington DC, USA
Annual Meeting The Academy of Management AOM 2019, Boston USA
Annual Meeting American Economic Association Annual AEA 2019, Atlanta, USA
Annual Meeting The Academy of Management AOM 2018, Chicago, USA
Annual Meeting European Economic Association EEA 2018, Cologne, Germany
Annual Meeting The Verein für Socialpolitik, 2017, Vienna, Austria
Annual Meeting European Association of Law and Economics EALE 2016, Bologna Italy
Annual Meeting American Political Science Association APSA 2016, Philadelphia, USA
Annual Meeting American Sociological Association ASA 2016, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Annual Meeting Academy of Management Annual Meeting AOM 2016, Anaheim, California
Annual Meeting Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics 2016, Berkeley USA
Annual Meeting European Public Choice Society 2016, Freiburg, Germany
Annual Meetings Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, 2017, 2012 Islamabad, Pakistan
Annual Meeting European Group of Organizational Studies 2015, Greece, Athens
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Advance Microeconomics
Development Economics
REFERENCES
Professor Klaus Heine
Jean Monnet Chair of Economic Analysis of European Law
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Email: heine@law.eur.nl
Professor Christoph Engel
Director Bonn Max Planck
Institute for Research on
Collective Goods
Email: engel@coll.mpg.de
Professor Daniel L. Chen
Professor Toulouse School of Economics
Email: daniel.li.chen@gmail.com