Sadia Hussain
Sadia Hussain is a Research Fellow at CREB.Her research centers around improving outcomes of vulnerable groups such as women, small farmers and children. She has worked closely with microfinance institutions, health and education providers and strives to make meaningful policy conclusions from these collaborations. She has also worked with administrative data to understand vote-buying behavior in wheat procurement.
Learning Losses from COVID-19 in collaboration with The Citizen’s Foundation Foundation (with Hamna Ahmed, Ijaz Bajwa, Kate Vyborny)
Leveraging Technology to Promote Women's Health and Bargaining Power: Evidence from a Pilot Program (with Hamna Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Nazif)
Political Distortions and Production Responses: Evidence from Wheat Procurement in Pakistan (with Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado and Kate Vyborny)
Behavior Insights for Evidence Based Policy Making (with Sonia Balhotra, Asia Maselko, Farah Said and Siham Sikander)
Working Papers
Leveraging technology to promote women's health: Evidence from a pilot program (with Hamna Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Nazif) GLO Discussion Paper No. 939 (2021)
Student Experiences and Outcomes during COVID-19 (with Hamna Ahmed, IjazBajwaand Kate Vyborny) Insights for TCF, 2021
Ethnic Diversity, Concentration of Political Power and the Curse of Natural Resources (with Waqar Wadho), GLO Discussion Paper, No. 611, 2020
The Theory of the Natural Resource Curse: A Political Economy View (with Waqar Wadho), CREB Working Paper, No. 01-17, 2017
Journal Articles
Ethnic diversity, concentration of political power and the curse of natural resources (with waqar wadho), Economia Politica, 2022
The Role of Bundling in promoting Sustainability of Health Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed), Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Volume 44-5, 2019
Diversification on Small farms: An Empirical Investigation of Panel Data for 2001-10 (with Farah Said), The Lahore Journal of Economics, 22: SE, 233 - 250, 2017
Other Publications
COVID-19 and well-being of female borrowers in Lahore, Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Nazif), CREB Policy Brief, No. 03-20, 2020
Utilization of Health Microinsurance: Evidence from Focus Group Discussions (with Hamna Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Nazif), CREB Policy Paper, No. 02-19, 2019
Utilization of Health Microinsurance in Punjab: Insights from Administrative Data (with Hamna Ahmed), CREB Policy Paper, No. 01-19, 2019
Leveraging technology to promote women's health: Evidence from a pilot program (with Hamna Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Nazif), Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) Conference, 2022
Political distortions and production responses:Evidence from wheat procurement in Pakistan (with Ignacio Rodriguez and Katherine Vyborny) DevLab-DCID joint workshop series, 2021
Learning Loss during COVID-19: Evidence from Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed, IjazBajwa and Kate Vyborny)Lahore School/LUMS/Duke DevLab Joint Workshop, 2020
Ethnic Diversity, Concentration of Political Power and the Curse of Natural Resources (with WaqarWadho), TwentiethInternational Conference on Public Economic Theory Conference, Strasbourg, France, 2019
The Role of Bundling in promoting Sustainability of Health Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Nazif) Gender and Health Microinsurance: Research Prospects and Challenges, Lahore School of Economics, 2019
Diversification on Small Farms: An Empirical Investigation of Panel Data for 2001–10 (with Farah Said), Thirteenth International Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, 2017