Research

Working Papers

Environment and Land Markets

Team: Arsala Khan, Sarah Maham & Safia

Funded by SSHRC

Presented at QMUL Economics and Finance Workshop, 2026; UofT MacDev, 2026; LFS FRE Seminar, 2026

Demand for Crop Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan

with Patrick Baylis (UBC) & Guglielmo Zappalà (Harvard)

Team: Rabia Amer & Sarah Maham

Funded by International Growth Centre, CIDER

Presented at TMEC, 2026; VSE DevPE Lunch, 2025

Differentiated Responses to Shocks

Presented at VSE DevPE Lunch, 2024

Clean Air in the Classroom: Environmental Inputs and Human Capital Formation

with Nitin K. Bharti (UWA), David S. Blakeslee (NYUAD), Torsten F. Walter (NYUAD) & Samreen Malik (NYUAD)

R&R, Journal of Development Economics

Funded by International Growth Centre

Presented at VSE Empirical Lunch, 2025

PaperAEA Registry

Work in Progress

Land Records in India

An open data release of village-level land ownership records from Indian states.

Funded by SSHRC

Index Insurance and Agricultural Resilience

with Patrick Baylis (UBC) & Guglielmo Zappalà (Harvard)

Funded by STEG, CIDER, Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA)

Governance and Climate Adaptation

with Joanne Moore (UBC) & Ziyuan Wang (UBC)

Building Weak Institutions: Evidence from Pakistan

Policy & Other Writings

Estimating Emissions from Small Scale Diversified Agriculture

with Anny Wang (UBC), Caitie Ciampaglia (UBC), Evan Eskilson (UBC) & Sofia Bahmutsky (UBC)

Pakistan Fertilizer Policy, 2024

with AbuBakr Ayesh (TU) & Rabail Chandio (ISU)