Working papers

From Entry to Leadership: Early-Career Rotation and Leadership in Pakistan’s Civil Service
Job Market Paper

The Policy Preferences of Senior Civil Servants
with Sultan Mehmood, Shachar Kariv and Ray Fisman

Bureaucratic Leadership and Public Service Delivery
with Sultan Mehmood and Silvia Vannutelli

AI Education as State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
with Sultan Mehmood, Bakhatawar Ali and Daniel Chen
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics

Training Policymakers in Econometrics
with Sultan Mehmood and Daniel Chen
Reject & Resubmit, The Economic Journal

Work in progress

How Assignments Shape Careers: Evidence from a Large Organization
with Imran Rasul

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.

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.

Earlier work

Bureaucratic Identity and the Shape of Public Policy: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
with Klaus Heine