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Rabia Arif

Assistant Professor of Economics

Ms. Arif is currently enrolled in the PhD Economics program at the Lahore School of Economics. Her MPhil dissertation looked at the impact of External Migration on School Enrollments, Accumulated level of Schooling and Dropouts in Punjab. Her research interests include theoretical macroeconomics and applied microeconomics. She was placed on the Dean's Honor List for finishing in the top 10% of the BSc program at the University College Lahore (External program). She has also been to the Oxford University and the University of Warwick as a Visiting Doctoral Student.

Research Interests

Econometrics, Pakistan Economy, Microeconomics for Managers, Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Lahore School of Economics.Taught following courses:


  • Advanced Econometrics Theory (Graduate Course)
  • Advanced Macroeconomics 2 (Graduate course)
  • Econometrics 2 (Undergraduate course)
  • Econometrics 1 (Undergraduate course)
  • Development Economics (Undergraduate course)
  • Introduction to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (Undergraduate course)
  • Macroeconomics 1 (Undergraduate course)
  • Pakistan Economy (Undergraduate course)


Graduate Teaching Associate, Lahore School of Economics.
Responsible for assisting teachers in lecture preparations, grading tests and conducting tutorials for following courses


  • Econometrics 2
  • Development Economics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics 2
  • MPHIL Advanced Econometrics
  • MPHIL Advanced Macroeconomics 1
  • MPHIL Advanced Macroeconomics 2

PhD Dissertation

  • Chapter 1: Beyond Remittances: Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan
  • Chapter 2: Emigration of Potential Family Caregiver and its Impact on the Child’s Wellbeing in Punjab,Pakistan
  • Chapter 3: Empowered Mothers & Coresident Paternal Grandmothers: Two Fundamental Factors Impacting Child Health Outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan

Book Chapter

  • Jamil, N., & Arif, R., 2019, “Increasing Exports through Tariff Reductions on Intermediate Goods” in Chaudhry, A., and Chaudhry, T.T., (Eds.). (2019). Economic Challenges Facing Pakistan in a Regional and Global Environment: Lahore School of Economics.
  • Arif, R., & Chaudhry, A., 2024, “Does Innovation Benefit Exporters in Pakistan more than Non-Exporters? An Analysis of Firms from the Textile, Light Engineering and Automotive Sectors.”

Publications

  1. Chaudhry, T., & Arif, R. (2023). The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan. Journal of South Asian Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231200380
  2. Arif R, Chaudhry A, Chaudhry T (2023) Empowered mothers and co-resident grandmothers: Two fundamental roles of women impacting child health outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan. PLOS ONE 18(11): e0285995. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285995
  3.  *Arif, R., Jamil, N., & Chaudhry, A. (2023). Strategic Trade Policy for Pakistan’s Textile Sector in 2018: Enhancing High Value-Added Exports through Low-Priced Intermediate Input. The Pakistan Development Review, 145-166.
  4.  *Arif, R., & Chaudhry, T. T. (2023). Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan. Advances in Life Course Research, 100547.
  5. *Arif, R., Chaudhry, T., & Chaudhry, A. (2023). “Emigration’s Heterogeneous Impact on Children’s Wellbeing in Punjab, Pakistan.” Child Indicators Research, 1-45
  6.  Tanvir, A., & *Arif, R. (2023). “Measuring Mother’s Empowerment through the Culture of Son’s Preference in Pakistan.” Journal of Research & Reviews in Social Sciences Pakistan.
  7.  *Arif, R., & Aslam, M. (2022). “Impact of Remittances on Child Health Outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences, 3(2), 916-929.
  8.  *Arif, R., & Khalid, M. (2022). “Determining the Extent of Gender Discrimination in Educational Attainment: A Case of Pakistan.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review, 6(2), 1041-1056.
  9.  Jamil, N., & Arif, R. (2019).” Increasing Exports through Tariff Reductions on Intermediate Goods” Lahore Journal of Economics, 24(1), 29-53.
  10.  *Arif, R., &Chaudhry, A. (2015), “The Effects of External Migration on Enrollments, Accumulated Schooling and Dropouts in Punjab” Applied Economics 47 (16)

Forthcoming


  • Arif, R., &Chaudhry, A. (2026), “Global Value Chain (GVC) & Growth: Analyzing Participation and Positioning of Pakistan.”
  • *Arif, R., &Chaudhry, A. (2025), “Understanding how Complementarities in Innovation Affect Firm Performance: Evidence from Firms in Pakistan.”

Working Papers

  1. ITC Working Paper No. 10-2024: “Fertility and Female Decision to be Self-Employed: Testing for Bidirectional Causation in Punjab, Pakistan.
  2.  ITC Working Paper No. 15-2024: “Impact of Women’s Retirement on their daughter in Law’s Employment in Pakistan”.
  3. ITC Working Paper No. 04-2023: “Understanding how complementarities in Innovation Affect Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan”.
  4.  ITC Working paper No.01-2023: “Low Priced Intermediate input and Export Boost, Proposing A strategic trade Policy to Achieve High Value-Added Exports: A case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector”.
  5. CREB Working Paper No. 03-12: “The Effects of External Migration on Enrolments, Accumulated Schooling, and Dropouts in Punjab”.
  6. MPRA Working Paper No. 90380-2018: “Proposed Methodology for Strategic Trade Policy to Achieve High Value-Added Exports: A Case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector. University Library of Munich, Germany”.
  7. CREB Working Paper No.01-22 "Measuring Mother’s Empowerment through Culture of Son Preference in Pakistan".
  8. CREB Working Paper No.04-21"Determining the Extent of Gender Discrimination in Education Sector: A case of Pakistan''.
  9. CREB Working Paper No.03-21” Impact of External Migration and Remittances on the Child’s Health in Punjab, Pakistan”.

Presentations at Conferences & Seminars


  • Chair & discussant at the international conference of Applied development Economics (ADE), 2025. Session VII: Graduate Student Session, Research on Gender and Health, Lahore School of Economics.
  • Presented paper titled “Global Value Chains (GVC) & Growth: Analyzing Participation & Positioning of Pakistan”, at the 18th Annual International conference on the Management of Pakistan’s Economy held at Lahore School of Economics,2025.
  • Presented paper titled “Does Innovation & its Complementarities Benefit Exporters in Pakistan More than Non-exporters? An Analysis of Firms from the Textile, Light Engineering and Automotive Sectors”, at the 17th Annual International conference on the Management of Pakistan’s Economy held at Lahore School of Economics,2024.
  • Presented at The Ministry of Commerce Workshop titled “Low priced Intermediate Input and Export Boost,Proposing A Strategic Trade Policy to Achieve High Value-Added Exports: A Case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector” arranged by ITC, Lahore School of Economics, 2022.
  • Presented paper titled “Climbing up the Export ladder through Strategic Tariff Reductions on Intermediate Goods: A Case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector”, at The Fourteenth International conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy, Accelerating Economic Growth in Pakistan: Key Macro and Sectoral Drivers held at Lahore School of Economics, 2021.
  • Presented paper titled “Boosting Export opportunities for Pakistan: Leveraging Pakistan’s Trade Policy with Respect to China”, at the Fourteenth International conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy, Accelerating Economic Growth in Pakistan: Key Macro and Sectoral Drivers held at Lahore School of Economics, 2021.
  • Presented Paper titled “Beyond Remittances: Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan”, at The Second International Conference on Applied Development Economics held at Lahore School of Economics, 2019.
  • Presented paper titled, “Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan” at the summer school arranged by Paris School of Economics, 2018.
Thesis Advisor, Lahore School of Economics

MPhil Thesis Supervised, Completed:


  • Haleema Salman (2025): “Impact of female workforce participation on intimate partner violence:protective or provocative? evidence from Punjab, Pakistan”..
  • Zartasha Kalsoom (2025): “The Impact of Migration on Early Marriage in Punjab, Pakistan”
  • Mahnoor Sajid (2023): “From Home to Economy: Analyzing gendered Production and the Contract Based Invisible Labor Force in Pakistan”.
  • Fizza Naveed (2021): “Impact of Women’s retirement on their daughter in Law’s Employment”.
  • Ayesha Mir (2021): “Testing for bidirectional causation between fertility and women’s decision to become self- employed in Punjab”.
  • Aqsa Amjad (2018): “Does the Gender of Dominated Parent Affects wellbeing of Child? Experimental Evidence”.
  • Aimal Tanveer (2018): “Measuring Mother’s Empowerment through the Culture of Son’s Preference in Pakistan’.
  • Mayda Aslam (2018): “Effects of Migration, Remittances & Parental Absence on the health of Children Left Behind”.
  • Maham Khalid (2015): “Measuring gender disparity in enrollment rates, type of school and years of education of children in Pakistan”.
Reviewer

  • Child Indicators Research
  • PLOS one
  • Advances in Life Course Research
  • Lahore Journal of Economics
Attending Seminars, Workshops & Summer Schools for Scholars

  • American Economic Association (ASSA)
  • Attended Summer School at Paris School of Economics
  • Migration Economics – Development impacts of migration and challenges in global labour markets
  • Experimental Economics – Empirical tools and methods to investigate economic behaviour
  • Visiting Scholar at University of Warwick
  • Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford
  • Monitoring and Evaluation: Data Management Tools (CERP)
  • CLEAR Project and Data Management Course (CERP)
  • Biannual Faculty Development Workshops at Lahore School of Economics

Degrees :
Candidate for PhD. In Economics, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan
M.Phil. Economics, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan
B.Sc. (hons.) Economics, University College Lahore, Pakistan (External Program)

Email :rabiaa@lahoreschool.edu.pk
Tel : + 92-42-3656-0969

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