Department of Economics

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Zunia Saif Tirmazee

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics & Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB)

Research Interests

Labour Markets, Applied Microeconomics

Teaching

Intermediate Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Development Economics, Resource Economics, Pakistan Economy, Computing for Business and Economics, Introduction to Microeconomics

Publications

Tirmazee, Z. S., & Haroon, M. (2015). Growth in Pakistan: Inclusive or Not?. Pakistan Development Review, 54(4), 335. Tirmazee, Z. S., & Naveed, R. (2014). Reviewing Pakistan's Import Demand Function: A Time Series Analysis, 1970-2010. The Lahore Journal of Economics, 19, 371.
Tirmazee, Z., S. (2016). Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location within Districts of Punjab. (CREB Working Paper No. 02-16). Centre for Research in Economics and Business website:
Working Paper Series

Work in Progress

Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry with Dr. Haman Ahmad, Farah Said and Dr. Mahreen Mahmud- The project will be funded by PEDL's (Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries) Exploratory grant, 2017. This study is a randomised controlled trial to test the impact of two low-cost interventions to overcome psychological and information constraints to female labor force participation (FLFP).
Quantifying Returns to Quality of Higher Education in Lahore, Pakistan with Dr. Kate Vyborny, Research Associate at Duke University

Conference Presentations

Participant Lahore School Fourteenth Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy -"Accelerating Economic Growth in Pakistan: Key Macro and Sectoral Drivers" -2018.
Participant 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists (PSDE) on "Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth" -2014.
Participant Lahore School Tenth Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy -"Pakistan in the Global Economy - Opportunities and Challenges" -2014.
Participant Lahore School of Economics-IMF Round Table Conference for International Financial Crisis and the Role of IMF: The View from Pakistan's Youth2010

Workshops

Conducted Workshop on Structural Equation Modeling I at weekly CREB Seminar for Senior and Junior Faculty/Researchers. September 2017
Participated in "Workshop on the Pakistan Jobs Diagnostic" for an analytical activity on identifying key job challenges and proposing solutions. August 2017
Participant CERP-CLEAR, World Bank workshop on "Effective Engagement with the Public Sector" at Center for Research in Economics in Pakistan (CERP) on August 2017
Attended the course Structural Equation Models I (Week 1) at the Global School on Empirical Research Methods(GSERM) 2017 in University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Attended the course Econometrics of Big Data (Week 2) at the Global School on Empirical Research Methods (GSERM) 2017 in University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Participant Building Capacity to Use Research (BCURE), International Training of Trainers (IToT) at Harvard University. Boston, MA. February 2016
Attended a workshop on "Data Manipulation and Analysis" conducted by Ines Rombach at IT Services, Oxford University February 2016
Participant four-day CLEAR Project and Data Management Course Workshop organized by the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) in July 2012
Quarterly Faculty Development Workshops conducted by the Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016).

Degrees :
Candidate for Ph.D. in Economics, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan
M.Phil. in Economics, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan (2014)
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics and Finance, Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan (2010)

Email :zuniatirmazee@gmail.com
Tel : +92-42-36561230 Ext. 182
Office : CREB

Recent News : Currently working on the PhD thesis supervised by Dr. Naved Hamid, Director of Centre
for Research in Economics and Business