Projects

Project Title: Students Phone Survey - "The reservation wedge: labor supply of college-educated women in Pakistan"

Client: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and MIT

Authors: Oriana Bandiera, Amen Jalal, Nina Roussille

Assignment Introduction:

Only 25% of women with a university degree work in Pakistan. This implies the misallocation of talent, with largely negative consequences for output (Hsieh et al., 2019). In this study, we surveyed male and female students in the graduating cohort of a large university in Pakistan about their labor and marriage market preferences.

Tasks Completed:

• Hired a highly experienced and qualified data collection team;

• Conducted online training sessions for the data collectors;

• Conducted a telephonic survey of the parents of the university students to assess if the students’ preferences and beliefs align with their parents;

• Data collection was done using Survey CTO (an online data collection tool);

• A tracking sheet was designed to monitor the team's progress;

• Used audio recording to ensure phone survey data quality; and

• Raw data was shared with the client's analytics team.

Project Completion Date: November 2022

Project Title: Parents Phone Survey - "The reservation wedge: labor supply of college-educated women in Pakistan"

Client: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and MIT

Authors: Oriana Bandiera, Amen Jalal, Nina Roussille

Assignment Introduction:

Only 25% of women with a university degree work in Pakistan. This implies the misallocation of talent, with largely negative consequences for output (Hsieh et al., 2019). In this study, we surveyed the parents of university-graduated students to assess if students’ preferences and beliefs align with their parents. Insights from this baseline survey will be designed on belief correction and job-matching interventions for women and their families.

Tasks Completed:

• • Hired a highly experienced and qualified data collection team;

  • Conducted online training sessions for the data collectors;

  • Conducted a telephonic survey of the parents of the university students to assess if the students’ preferences and beliefs align with their parents;

  • Data collection was done using Survey CTO (an online data collection tool);

  • A tracking sheet was designed to monitor the team's progress;

  • Used audio recording to ensure phone survey data quality; and

  • Raw data was shared with the client's analytics team.

Project Completion Date: August 2022

Project Title: Constituency Public Opinion Survey

Consultant: Versatile Consultants

Client: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI)

Tasks Completed:

• • Conducted a survey in 2 constituencies of the Punjab Province

  • Interviewed stakeholders and political activists.

  • Interviewed the general public as per prescribed sampling methodology.

  • Sent a brief report on each constituency to the client.

Project Completion Date: July 2022

Note: This assignment was completed by Muhammad Zubair Rafique as a consultant in his Individual Capacity.

Project Title: Ex-Post Evaluation of projects implemented by GIZ titled " Utilization of Skills Provided" (A. Community and B. Government Staffs) from 2009-2017

Donor/Client: FATA Research Center/GIZ

Tasks Completed:

• • Developed database for data entry in CSPro.

  • Completed data entry of the forms

  • Data collection and management in the field.

  • Data coding and cleaning.

  • Data analysis using SPSS.

  • Graphical representation of the data- generated graphs.

Note: This assignment was completed by Muhammad Zubair Rafique as a consultant in his Individual Capacity.

Project Title: Poling Agents Training Program

Client: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf

Introduction: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf is the largest political party in Pakistan. Before the general elections in 2018, the party started a training program for polling agents. About 1200 Master Trainers were trained to conduct constituency-wise trainings across the country.

Tasks Completed:

• • Made a training plan for the Training of Master Trainers (ToMTs).

  • Developed material for the Training of Trainers

  • Conducted Training sessions in major cities of each province of Pakistan.

  • Submitted a detailed final report on the trainings conducted.

Note: This assignment was completed by Muhammad Zubair Rafique as a consultant in his Individual Capacity.

Project: Impact Evaluation of ILO implemented Program ‘Promoting Gender Equality for Decent Employment (GE4DE)

The project aimed at examining and comparing the situation of trained women (prior and post-training) and to measure the change because of skills development intervention by ILO.

Client: Dev Trio Consultants/International Labor Organization (ILO)

Tasks Completed:

• • Data cleaning and coding

  • Pre-post data analysis in SPSS by gender, income level, by geographical area.

  • Cross-tabulation of pre-and post-training data

  • Graphical representation of the pre-and post-data

Note: This assignment was completed by Muhammad Zubair Rafique as a consultant in his Individual Capacity.