"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 (Harvard)
  Funded by the International Growth Centre, CIDER Small Grants
  Presented at the VSE DevPE Lunch (2025)
  
  

• Differentiated Responses to Shocks: Evidence from Agricultural Households
  Presented at the VSE DevPE 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 Work in Progress:

• Development under Environmental Constraints
  This project studies how households use land to cope with environmental change.
  Presented at the LFS FRE Seminar (2026)
  
  

• Insurance and Agriculture Markets
  joint with Patrick Baylis (UBC) and Guglielmo Zappalà (Harvard)
  Funded by STEG, CIDER and Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
  
  

• Climate, Crops, and Adaptation
  joint with Patrick Baylis (UBC), Abid Aman Burki (LUMS),  Sajid Faiz Malik (IGC), and Abubakar Memon (LUMS)
  Funded by the International Growth Centre
  
  

• Holding It Together
  
  

Institution, Norms, and Political Economy

• The Aftermath of Applause
  joint with Ali Bakhtawar (AMSE)
  This paper studies how public displays of support for violence affect subsequent violence and self-censorship.
  
  

Policy & Other Writings

• Estimating Emissions from Small-Scale Diversified Agriculture
  joint with Anny Wang (UBC), Caitie Ciampaglia (UBC), Evan Eskilson (UBC), and Sofia Bahmutsky (UBC)
  
  

• Pakistan Fertilizer Policy, 2024
  joint with AbuBakr Ayesh (TU) and Rabail Chandio (ISU)
  Prepared for the Ministry of Industries and Production and National Fertilizer Marketing Limited. 

Last Updated: January, 2026