"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes." — Ibn Sina

Working Papers:

• Demand for Crop Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan
  joint with Patrick Baylis (UBC) and Guglielmo Zappalà (UCB)
  Status: Draft available upon request
  Funding: International Growth Centre, CIDER Small Grants
  Presented at: VSE Dev/PE Lunch (2025)
  
  

• Differentiated Responses to Shocks: Evidence from Agricultural Households
  Status: Draft available upon request
  Presented at: VSE Dev/PE Lunch (2024)
  
  

• Clean Air in the Classroom: Environmental Inputs and Human Capital Formation
  joint with Nitin K. Bharti (NYUAD), David S. Blakeslee (NYUAD), Samreen Malik (NYUAD), and Torsten F. Walter (NYUAD)
  
  

Selected Works in Progress:

• Trading Against the Storm
  Status: Analysis ongoing
  Funding: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG), CIDER Small Grants, Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
  
  

• Captured Development
  Status: Data collection ongoing
  
  

• Climate, Crops, and Adaptation
  joint with Patrick Baylis (UBC), Abid Aman Burki (LUMS),  Sajid Faiz Malik (IGC), and Abubakr Memon (LUMS)
  Status: Data cleaning ongoing
  Funding: International Growth Centre
  
  

• Markets and Misallocation
  Status: Analysis ongoing
  
  

Last Updated: October 12, 2025