Fareena Malhi
Fareena Malhi is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Lahore School of Economics in Lahore, Pakistan. She is also serving as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) at Lahore School. She completed her PhD from American University as a Fulbright Scholar. She is an applied microeconomist with an interest in labor economics, social norms and intra-household decision-making, gender and governance. She likes to employ, behavioral and experimental methods along with survey tools and large administrative datasets to better understand the intra-household decision-making for significant life outcomes like education and female labor force participation, mobility constraints and problems encountered by women in the labor market. Previously, she has also worked with international organizations like United Nations and Oxfam America.
Safety Perceptions, Female Mobility, and Technological Solutions: An evaluation of the Women’s Safety App in Pakistan (with Sheheryar Banuri and Zehra Aftab)
Incentivizing Carpooling to Combat Congestion and Vehicular Emissions in Lahore, Pakistan (with Sabrin Beg, Sheheryar Banuri and Sadia Hussain)
The economic impact of conflict on fertility in Egypt (with Valentina Calderon-Mejia and Ana Maria Tribin)
Working Papers
When norms collide: The effect of religious holidays on compliance with COVID guidelines ( with Sheharyar Banuri and Zehra Aftab)
Unconditional Cash Transfers: Do they effect the Aspirations of the Poor?
Covid-19 and Emotional Well Being of University Students: Case Study of Pakistan (with Zehra Aftab and Humna Ahsan)
Invisible Workforce – Who Are They and Why Do They Remain Hidden? – Insights from Pakistan Time Use
Social Stigma and Invisible Work by Married Women: Hierarchical Intra-household Labour Supply Model (with Mieke Meurs)
Journal Articles
Going beyond the surface: heterogeneous effect of on-site water access for women (
Analyzing the Impact of Initial Imprints on a Bureaucratic Organization: The Case of Pakistan (with Klaus Heine), Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2019 No. 1, p. 18816, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management, 2019
Organizational Inertia and Public Policy Outcomes (with Klaus Heine), Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2019, No. 1, p. 19261, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management, 2019
Bureaucratic Identity and the Shape of Public Policy: A Game Theoretic Analysis (with Klaus Heine), Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2018, No. 1, p. 16757, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management, 2018
Other Publications
Training Effective Altruism: Experimental evidence from Pakistan (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood), Article: VoxDev, 2021
Training Policymakers in Econometrics (Daniel L. Chen, Sultan Mehmood and Shaheen Naseer), VoxDev, Methods and Measurement, 2021
Training effective altruism (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood),APSA annual Meeting (up-coming), 2021
Training Effective Altruism (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood), Toulouse University Experimental Economics seminar, 2021
Training Effective Altruism (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood), Aix-Marseille University, France, 2021
Training Effective Altruism (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood), World Bank (D.C.) internal research seminar, 2021
Training Effective Altruism (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood), Sorbonne Univeristy Seminar, 2021
Training Effective Altruism (with Daniel L. Chen and Sultan Mehmood), New School of Economics, 2021
Why do you want your inheritance share: Triumph of social norms over laws: Evidence from Pakistan (with Christopher Engel and Klaus Heine), APSA annual Meeting (up-coming), 2021
Organisational Inertia and Public Policy Outcomes (with Klaus Heine), Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts and Washington DC, 2019
Analyzing the Impact of Initial Imprints on a Bureaucratic Organisation (with Klaus Heine), Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts and Washington DC, 2019
Initial Imprints (with Klaus Heine), Annual American Economic Association, 2019
Measuring and Limiting Corruption in the Pakistani Bureaucracy: Evidence from List and Endorsementy Experiments with High Ranked Bureaucrats (with WaqarWadho), Second International Conference on Applied Development Economics, Lahore School of Economics, 2019