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)

Religion and Tradition in Conflict: Experimentally Testing the Power of Social Norms to Invalidate Religious Law 

(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)