Research
Work in Progress
Exploring the incidence of informal lending on SME financing and development in Pakistan (Hamna Ahmed, Emma Zhang)
Household Decision-Making Inefficiencies and Young Women’s Skill Investment in Pakistan (Hamna Ahmed, Ruoxuan (Rebecca) Wu and Emily Zhang)
Firm Side Constraints to Hiring Women. (with Sakina Shibuya)
The project was conceived under the PEDL's Matchmaking Workshop, 2020. This is exploratory research to understand the challenges firms in Pakistan face that constrain them from hiring women.
This project is funded by IGC- Early Career Researcher’s Award, 2022, Co-I Amount: £ 20,000 and PEDL, 2022 Exploratory Grant 2022, Co-I Amount: £ 35,000
Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry with Dr. Hamna Ahmad, Dr. Farah Said and Dr. Mahreen Mahmud (AEA RCT registry, Online Appendix)
This study is a randomised controlled trial to test the impact of a low-cost intervention to overcome psychological and information constraints to female labor force participation (FLFP).
The project has received funding from GLM- LIC, Co-I (2019-2020) Amount: €150,000 and PEDL under the Exploratory Grant, 2017, Co-I (2019) Amount: £ 35,000
Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry-extension (with Hamna Ahmad, Kate Vyborny and Nivedhitha Subrmanian)
A leaky pipeline: Decomposing the gender gap in job search in urban Pakistan with (Kate Vyborny, Nikita Kohli, Elisabetta Gentile and Nivedhitha Subrmanian)
Improved nutrition and sanitation in Sindh: Inducing sustained behavioral change (with Farah Said, Tareena Musaddiq, and Mahniya Zafar).