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Research Themes
Industrial Policy- CPEC and Industrial Strategy - Opportunities and Synergies
- Strategic Tariff Reduction to Increase Pakistan Exports: Leveraging Pakistan's Trade Policy with respect to China
- Productivity Dispersion across districts in Punjab, Pakistan
- Pakistan's Experience with the 2006 Pak-China FTA and Lessons for CPEC
- Economic geography and misallocation in Pakistan's manufacturing hub
- Relative Factor Abundance and Relative Factor Price Equality in Punjab
- The Need for a Coordinated Industrial Strategy to Boost Pakistani Exports: Lessons from Asia
MPhil Theses
- Social and Economic Networks: An Investigation of Retailer Networks in Lahore & their Impact on Enterprise Performance
- Effects of Agglomeration and Trade Liberalization on Firm Entry and Exit
- Effects of Agglomeration on the Formation and Scale of Operations of New Firms
- Labor Pooling As a Determinant of Industrial Agglomeration
- Relative Wage Variation And Industry Location Within Districts Of Punjab
- Resource Misallocation And Aggregate Productivity In Punjab
Innovation and Technology
- Barriers to Product Upgradation in the Sialkot Surgical Goods Sector
- Barriers to Upgrading in the Sialkot Football Sector
- Understanding Institutional Barriers to Technology Adoption in the Pakistani Manufacturing Sector
- Innovation and firm performance in developing countries: The case of Pakistani textile and apparel manufacturers
- Analysis of Technology in the Sialkot Soccer Ball industry
- Technology and Innovation Mapping Project
- Innovation in the Textiles Sector: A Firm-Level Analysis of Technological and Nontechnological Innovation
MPhil Theses
- Corruption, Institutional Barriers and Innovation
- Technology in the Sialkot Gloves Manufacturing Sector
Firm Productivity
- Pilot Benchmarking of Productivity in the Pakistani Garments Sector
- Incentives and Productivity: Work Groups vs. Production Lines in Pakistani Electric Fan Production
- Same Jeans, Same Stitch? A Comparison of Denim Production across Three Factories in Punjab, Pakistan
- Technology in the Sialkot Gloves Manufacturing Sector
- Benchmarking of Productivity in Pakistan's Readymade Garment Sector
- Pakistan: A Case of Premature Deindustrialization?
- Exporters in Pakistan and Firms Who Do Not Export: What's the Big Difference?
- The Textiles and Garments Sector: Moving Up the Value Chain
- The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Firm Entry and Exit in Punjab, Pakistan
MPhil Theses
Health
- The impact of bundling health microinsurance with microcredit: Evidence from Punjab, Pakistan
- A policy report that explores and analyses the main trends in utilization of the program since its inception (expected April 2018)
- Rainfall Shocks and child health
- Causes and Consequences of Consanguineous Marriage in Pakistan
- Birth Order, Gender, and Child Nutritional Status in Punjab
- Exposure to Fasting and Child Nutritional Status in Punjab
- What Matters in Child Health: An Instrumental Variable Analysis
- The State of Health in Pakistan: An Overview
MPhil Theses
- Impact of Temporary Migration & Remittances on Child Health Outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan
- Geographical Constraints and Health Facility Choice: Evidence from Kashf's Health Micro Insurance Program
- Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Fasting on Cognitive Development of Children
- Child Nutrition, Education & Child Labor: Impact on Human Capital Accumulation
- Impact of Temporary Migration & Remittances on Child Health Outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan
- The Impact of Early Childbearing on Child Health in Punjab
- The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Fasting on Child Health Outcomes
- Female Empowerment and the Uptake of Maternity Care Services in Pakistan
- Effects of Birth Order on Child Nutritional Status
- The Impact of Remittances and Parental Absence on Children's Wellbeing in Rural Punjab
- The Determinants of Child Health and Nutritional Status in Punjab: An Economic Analysis
Education
- Rural Household Finance, Child Labor, and Education in Punjab
- Conditional-Cash Transfers for Girls' Secondary Schooling in Punjab: Outcomes
- Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan
- Education, Rent seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources
- Public Vs Private Schooling Choice at the Household Level
- Higher education, languages, and the persistence of inequitable structures for working-class women in Pakistan
MPhil Theses
- Birth Order Effects on Child Labor
- Impact of Remoteness on Education Quality
- The Impact of School Facilities on Drop outs in Pakistan
- Impact of Female Secondary School Stipend Program on Enrollment, Marriage and Fertility Outcomes in Rural Punjab
- Impact Of Child Labor On Schooling Outcome Of Children Living In Rural Punjab, Pakistan
- Effects of External Migration on School Enrollments accumulated Schooling and Dropouts in Punjab
Behavioural Economics
- Constraints to Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan: the role of women's goals and aspirations
- Behavioural insights for evidence-based policy making - impact of depression intervention on individual preferences
- Overcoming Constraints to Giving
- Pressures from peers and spouses and self-control problems as constraints to microenterprise growth: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
- Institutional capacity as an organizational challenge: a field experiment in Pakistan
- Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry
- Consanguineous Marriage and Investments in Children
- Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan
- Microinsurance Demand after a Rare Flood Event: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan
MPhil Theses
- Intergenerational Transfer of Aspirations: The Impact of Gender
- Measuring Mother's Empowerment through the Culture of Son Preference in Pakistan
- Spousal Trust Game- Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan
- Transfer of Behavioral Traits from Parents to Children: An Experimental Approach
- Homophily and Strategic Behavior in Social Interactions: Evidence from a Lab Experiment
- Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making
- Fuzzy Judgment Aggregation: Distance Based Methods
- Socioeconomic Determinants of Maternal Health Behavior in Pakistan: An Instrumental Variable Approach
- Education, Employment, and Women's Say in Household Decision-Making in Pakistan
- Impact of Parents' Subjective Aspirations on Schooling Investment in Rural Punjab
Economic Growth and Development
- Access to solar electricity in rural Sindh: Role of payment schedule and planning
- Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan
- Breaking the cycle. Reducing non-payment for electricity: experimental evidence from Pakistan
- Impact assessment of startup loans to female run micro-enterprises
- Incentivizing Development: A Field Experiment on Third Tier Organizations in Pakistan
- Institutional capacity as an organizational challenge: pilot results from a field experiment in Pakistan
- Rent-seeking, Government Size and Economic Growth
- Exchange Rate Management and Economic Growth: A Brewing Crisis in Pakistan
- Business Confidence Surveys of the Business Community in Lahore
- The Diversification and Sophistication of Pakistan's Exports: The Need for Structural Transformation
- A Partial Langrangian Approach to Solving Dynamic Models of Economic Growth
- Corruption, Tax Evasion And The Role Of Wage Incentives With Endogenous Monitoring Technology
- Understanding and Addressing Rural Poverty in Pakistan: Oxford University- Lahore School Collaboration
- Caste, Social Exclusion and Education in Rural Punjab: World Bank and CREB joint Research Initiative
- A Partial Hamiltonian Approach for Current Value Hamiltonian Systems
- Reviewing Pakistan's Import Demand Function: A Time-Series Analysis, 1970-2010
- Analyzing Pakistan's Trade Opportunity with Turkey
- An Impact Assessment of Expected Future Turmoil Risk on FDI: A Panel Data Analysis of Developing Countries
- Pakistan's Growth Spurts and Reversals: A Historical Perspective
- Patterns of Export Diversification: Evidence from Pakistan
- Financial Crisis and Migrant Remittances: Effects on Growth and Poverty in Selected South Asian Countries
- Microinsurance in Pakistan: Progress, Problems, and Prospects
- Patronage in Rural Punjab: Evidence from a New Household Survey Dataset
MPhil Theses
- Multiple equilibria and stability analysis of an economic growth model with Human capital externalities and endogenous time preferences
- Endogenous time preferences and Environmental quality: Multiple equilibria and Fiscal implications
- Corruption: The Role of Taxes and Wage Incentives
- The Impact of the Presence of an External Migrant and Remittance Inflows on Women Empowerment, Punjab
- Investment in Early Childhood Health and its Implications for Human Capital Accumulation
- The Impact of Political Connections on the Allocation of Development Projects in Faisalabad
- The Role Of International Migration Of Unskilled Labor And Parental Absenteeism In The Human Capital Formation Of Children Left Behind
- Human and Social Capital Complementarities in the Presence of Credit Market Imperfections
- The Political Economy of Ethnic Polarization, Natural Resource Curse and Income Inequality
- Unique and Multiple Equilibria in a Macroeconomic Model with Environment: Stability Analysis and Transitional Dynamics
- Corruption, Tax Evasion And Economic Development In Economies With Hierarchial Tax Administrative System
- Endogenous Patience in a Model of Economic Growth with Human and Unproductive Social Capitals
- The Role of Socio-Economic Networks in Lahore for the General Elections 2013
- Growth Spillovers: Separating the Impact of Cultural Distance from Geographical Distance
- Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: An Instrumental Variable Approach
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