Working papers
Assignment Matters: Early Exposure and Career Outcomes
Job Market Paper (November 2025)
The Policy Preferences of Senior Civil Servants
(with Sultan Mehmood , Shachar Kariv and Ray Fisman)
Submitted
Improving Governance through Citizen Feedback Technologies: Evidence from Pakistan
(with Silvia Vannutelli and Sultan Mehmood)
First Draft
AI Education as State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
(with Sultan Mehmood and Daniel Chen)
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics
Training Policymakers in Econometrics
(with Sultan Mehmood and Daniel Chen)
Reject and Resubmit, The Economic Journal
Refereed publications
Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-Gender Contact, and Student Achievement.
(with Sultan Mehmood and Daniel Chen)
American Economic Journal : Economic Policy, (2025)
Role Models and Theory of Mind: Teacher Vaccinations and Student Success.
(with Sultan Mehmood and Daniel Chen)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), (2024)
Altruism in Governance: Insights from Randomized Training.
(with Sultan Mehmood and Daniel Chen)
Journal of Development Economics, (2024)
Work in progress
”The Evolution of Organisation: Design and Dynamics”
(with Imran Rasul)
Data Collection Complete, Analysis Stage
Other papers
Digitalisation of Pakistan’s Tax System: Pathway for Enhancing Tax Efficiency and Compliance
(with Annudi Sharma and Zulfiqar Younas)
IGC Working Paper (June 2024)
(with Christoph Engel and Klaus Heine)
Max Planck Working Paper (May 2021)
Resting paper
Bureaucratic Identity and the Shape of Public Policy: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.
(with Klaus Heine)