Theresa Chaudhry
Dr. Theresa Chaudhry is Professor of Economics and a fellow of the Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) at the Lahore School of Economics. She is also a research affiliate with the International Growth Centre (IGC) in the UK. She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005. Prior to the Lahore School, Dr. Chaudhry worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. on issues of public finance and public sector governance.
Dr. Chaudhry teaches microeconomics and supervises research for the BSc Economics, MPhil Economics, and PhD Economics programs. She also serves as a managing an editor of the Lahore Journal of Economics, a bi-annual scholarly journal cited in the JEL. Her current on-going projects include survey-based and experimental research on child health and firms.
Exposure to Fasting: Health and Birth Outcomes
Developing an Optimal Industrial Strategy in the Context of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor-CPEC (with Azam Chaudhry and Nida Jamil)
Conditional-Cash Transfers for Girls’ Secondary Schooling in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
Project Abstracts:
Exposure to Fasting: Health and Birth Outcomes
Project members:
Theresa Chaudhry, Lahore School of Economics
We are examining the intent-to-treat effect of exposure to fasting on various outcomes using various MICS datasets and Demographic and Health Surveys on a number of outcomes, including: birth outcomes, height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores of children under age five, and adult disability.
Working Papers
Understanding Productivity in the Pakistani Garment Sector, (with Azam Chaudhry, Rocco MacChiavello, and Chris Woodruff), IGC Working Paper, 2016
Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity in Punjab, (with MuhammadHaseeb)CREB Working paper, No 01-14, 2014
Incentives and Productivity: Work Groups vs. Production Lines, (with Chris Woodruff), IGC Working Paper, 2013
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index: Whose Perceptions Are They Anyway? (with Anwar Shah), Discussion Draft (background paper for OED evaluation of anti-corruption programs), World Bank, 2005
Implementing Decentralized Local Governance: A Treacherous Road with Potholes, Detoturs, and Road Closures, (Anwar Shah),Policy Research Working Paper #3353, Washington DC: The World Bank, 2004
Journal Articles
Trading textiles along the new silk route: The impact on Pakistani firms of gaining market access to China (with Nida Jamil and Azam Chaudhry),Journal of Development Economics, Vol 158,2022
The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Ramadan on Child Anthropomorphic Outcomes in Pakistan (with Azka Mir), Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2021
Son-biased fertility stopping, birth spacing, and child nutritional status in Pakistan (with Maha Khan and Azka Mir), Review of Development Economics, 25(2), pp 712-36,2021
Effects of birth order and son preference on utilization of pre- and post-natal health inputs in Punjab (with Maha Khan), Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 70(1), pp 110-115, 2020
Estimating the Health and Socioeconomic Effects of Cousin Marriage in South Asia, (with Alan H. Bittles, Julia Brown, Shamyla Chaudhry, M. Nizam Khan, Steven Li, A. MushfiqMobarak, Rana Abdul Wajid and TetyanaZelenska), Journal of Biosocial Science, 51(3), pp 418-435, 2019
Economic Geography and Misallocation in Pakistan’s Manufacturing Hub, with Muhammad Haseeb and Maryiam Haroon, The Annals of Regional Science, 59(1), 2017
Pakistan's Experience with the Pak-China Free Trade Agreement: Lessons for CPEC, (with Azam Chaudhry and Nida Jamil), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2017.
Same Jeans Same Stitch? A Comparison of Denim Production across Three Factories in Punjab, Pakistan (with MahvishFaran), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2016
Organization, Management, and Wage Practices in Pakistan’s Electrical Fan and Ready-Made Garment Sectors (with MahvishFaran), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2015
Exporters in Pakistan and Firms Who Do Not Export: What’s the Big Difference (with Muhammad Haseeb), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2014
Microinsurance in Pakistan: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (with FazildaNabeel) The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2013
Collective Branding by Clusters through Export Consortia, published as: Los clusters y eluso de marcascolectivasenconsorcios de exportacion, TrimestreEconomico, Vol 53, No. 1, 2013
Prospects for Cooperative Marketing among Surgical Instrument Producers in Pakistan, The Lahore Journal of Economics, 16(1), 2011
Norms of Cooperation, Trust, Altruism, and Fairness: Evidence from Lab Experiments on Pakistani Students, (with Misha Saleem), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2011
Contracting and Efficiency in the Surgical Goods Cluster of Sialkot, Pakistan, South Asia Economic Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2011
Estimating Residential Electricity Demand Responses in Pakistan's Punjab, The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2010
Relational Contracting in Pakistan’s Surgical Instrument Cluster: An Empirical Study, Pakistan Development Review, 49(3): Autumn 2010
Microeconomic Flexibility in India and Pakistan: Employment Adjustment at the Firm Level, The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2009
The Effects of Rising Food and Fuel Costs in Pakistan, (with Azam Chaudhry), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, Sept. 2008
Industrial Clusters in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature,TheLahore Journal of Economics, 10 (2), Winter 2005
The impact of decentralization on service delivery, corruption, fiscal management and growth in developing and emerging market economies: A synthesis of empirical evidence, (with Anwar Shah and Heng-Fu Zou), CESifo DICE Report: Journal for Institutional Comparisons: 1, 2004
Book Chapters
Beyond the Poverty Line: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Poverty in Pakistan, (with Uzma Afzal, Azam Chaudhry and Muhammad Haseeb), in Rashid Amjad and ShahidJavedBurki (ed.) Pakistan: Moving the Economy Forward, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Implementing Decentralized Local Governance: A Treacherous Road with Potholes, Detours, and Road Closures, (with Anwar Shah), in Jorge Martinez-Vazquez (ed.) Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and the Rebuilding of Indonesia, Edward Elgar Press, 2004
Other Publications
Corruption and the Economic Rate of Return on World Bank Projects, background paper for Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank, 1999
Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption in World Bank Assistance: A Review of Progress Since 1997, (with Anwar Shah and others), a major report to the World Bank Executive Board, 2004
South Asia Seminar Series, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK, Oct. 2019
Annual International Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, 2007 – 2016, 2019.
Contemporary South Asia Seminar, Dept of International Development and Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, University of Oxford, UK, Nov. 2016
Growth Week, International Growth Centre, London School of Economics, Sept. 2014
Growth Week, International Growth Centre, London School of Economics, Sept. 2012
Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2004
Can Decentralization Help Rebuild Indonesia?Conference hosted by the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, May 2002
North Eastern Universities Development Conference, Boston, MA, Fall 2001
Intensive Course on Quantitative Methods of Competition Analysis, UniversitatPompeuFabra, Oct. 2013: Attended course
Firms and Household Enterprises in Developing Countries, Summer School Program at the University of Warwick, July 2010: Participant (invited).
American Evaluation Association, Washington, D.C., November 2002: Made presentation on evaluation of anti-‐‑corruption programs to international audience of program evaluators