Maryiam Haroon
Maryiam Haroon is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. She is also an External Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Economics and Business, Lahore School of Economics. She recently finished her Ph.D. in Economics from Lahore School of Economics in 2021. Her field of research is applied micro econometrics, working in development economics, focusing on labor and behavioral economics questions, mainly gender. Much of her work focuses on how individuals make decisions under conditions of poverty and how labor and education market imperfections function, especially around issues of asymmetric information. She is a co-PI on several collaborative projects with local and international researchers, the University of Chicago, the University of Göttingen, Washington University, and local institutions such as the National Rural Support Programme, Higher Education Commission, and Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan.
The Role of Non-cognitive Skills in Improving Academic Performance (with Farah Said and Mahniya Zafar). RAs: Aiman Farrukh, Saniya Jilani, Fizza Rahman and Maria Syed
Strengthening Schools Accountability Mechanisms through Participation: Addressing Education Quality (with Parul Bakhshi, Sheretta Barnes, Peter Hovmand, Amin Mayel, Farah Said, Nidhi Singal, Jean-Francois Trani, Juanita Vasquez-Escallon and Muhammad Tahir Waqar)
Search and Matching in Casual Day Laborers (with Christina Brown)
Working Papers
Where Do New Firms Locate? The Effects of Agglomeration on the Formation and Scale of Operations of New Firms in Punjab (with Azam Chaudhry), Economics Discussion Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2014
The effects of Agglomeration on the Formation and Scale of Operation of New Firms, CREB Working Paper, No. 03-13, 2013
Journal Articles
Fostering non-cognitive skills and academic performance: Experimental evidence from women’s-only colleges in Pakistan (with Farah Said and Mahniya Zafar), Journal of Asian Economics (2022), Vol 81
Where to Locate? The Correlation Between Spatial Proximity and Location Choice of New Firms: The Case of Pakistan (with Azam Chaudhry) Asian Economic Journal, 35(2), 187-208, 2021
Productivity Dispersion across Districts in Punjab,The Lahore Journal of Economics, Vol 24(2), 2019
Economic Geography and misallocation in Pakistan’s manufacturing hub (with Theresa Chaudhry and Muhammad Haseeb),The Annals of Regional Science, doi:10.1007/s00168-017-0824-7, 2017
Free Trade: Does Myopic Policy Overlook Long-Term Gains? The Lahore Journal of Economics, 22:2, pp.65-88, 2017
The Economic Impact of New Firms in Punjab (with Azam Chaudhry),The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, pp.143-182, 2015
Growth in Pakistan: Inclusive or Not? (with Zunia Saif Tirmazee),Pakistan Development Review, Special Edition 54 (4), pp.335-350, 2015
The Birth of Exporters: Entry and Scale of Firms in Punjab’s Export Sectors (with Azam Chaudhry and Marjan Nasir),The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, pp.191–212, 2012
Other Publications
Non-cognitive skills, psychological well-being and learning outcomes among college students (with Farah Said and Mahniya Zafar),CREB Policy Brief, No. 02-20, 2020
Search and Matching in Casual Day Laborers (with Christina Brown), International Collaboration in Research: Projects from PEDL Matchmaking Workshops, The Centre for the Study of African Economics Conference, 2021
The impact of the Pakistan-China free trade agreement on Pakistani firm’s (with Azam Chaudhry), First Workshop in Applied Microeconomics, Association for Mentoring and Inclusion in Economics, Co-Sponsored by Y-RISE, U.Connecticut, UW-Madison, 2021
Non-cognitive skills, psychological well-being and learning outcomes among college students (with Farah Said and Mahniya Zafar), Lahore School/LUMS/Duke DevLab Joint Workshop, 2020
Measuring the impact of agglomeration economies on naturally rising and declining manufacturing sectors in Pakistan (with Azam Chaudhry), Second GW Student Research Conference, The George Washington University, USA, 2018
Measuring the impact of agglomeration economies on naturally rising and declining manufacturing sectors in Pakistan (with Azam Chaudhry), First International Applied Development Conference, Lahore School of Economics, 2018
Productivity Dispersion across Districts in Punjab (with Azam Chaudhry), Fourteenth Annual International Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, 2018
Measuring the impact of agglomeration economies on naturally rising and declining manufacturing sectors in Pakistan (with Azam Chaudhry), The Place Dimension of Cities and Regions: Governance, Industrial Development, and Sustainability, Annual Winter Conference, Regional Studies Association, London, UK, 2017
The Economic Impact of New Firms in Punjab (with Azam Chaudhry), Eleventh Annual International Conference on The Management of Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, 2015
Growth In Pakistan: Inclusive or Not? (with Zunia Saif Tirmazee), Thirtieth AGM and Conference of The Pakistan Society of Development Economics (PSDE), Islamabad, 2014
The Birth of Exporters: Entry and Scale of Firms in Punjab’s Export Sectors (with Azam Chaudhry and Marjan Nasir), Eighth Annual International Conference on The Management of Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, 2012
“Bolivian Conference on Economic Development 2021”, Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA), Bolivia."
Co-convener (with Farah Said, Hamna Ahmed and Zunia Saif Tirmazee) Applied Development Economics Conference, Lahore School of Economics, 2021
First Workshop in Applied Microeconomics, Association for Mentoring and Inclusion in Economics, Co-Sponsored by Y-RISE, U.Connecticut, UW-Madison, 2021
Co-convener (with Farah Said and Hamna Ahmed) Applied Development Economics Conference, Lahore School of Economics, 2018, 2019, 2020
Shared knowledge and experience in the field on Impact Evaluation Designs (with Farah Said), Webinar on Evaluation Methods in collaboration with Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan as part of CLEAR’s gLOCAL Evaluation Week, 2020
Participated in the short course, IZA/DFID Short Course on Program Evaluation, 2019
Organizer Committee, South Asian Economics Students’ Meet, 2019, 2020 and 2021
NYU/PEDL Young Scholars Workshop on The Frontiers of Research in Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries, Abu Dhabi, 2018
Microeconometrics and Policy evaluation; Experimental Economics, Paris School of Economics, France, 2018
Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2017
STATA: Data Manipulation and Analysis, conducted by Ines Rombach at iT services, University of Oxford, Hilary term, 2015