Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals: Recent submissions

  • Terms-of-Trade Volatility and Inflation in Pakistan 
    Kiran Ijaz; Muhammad Zakaria; Bashir A. Fida (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This empirical study examines the effects of terms-of-trade (TOT) volatility on inflation in Pakistan, using annual data for the period 1972 to 2012. The results show that TOT volatility has a significant negative effect ...
  • The Efficiency of Foreign Exchange Markets in Pakistan An Empirical Analysis 
    Rizwana Bashir; Rabia Shakir; Badar Ashfaq; Atif Hassan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study investigates the empirical relationship between spot and forward exchange rate efficiency with reference to Pakistan and the efficiency of its foreign exchange market. We use monthly data from the State Bank of ...
  • Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan 
    Hamna Ahmed; Sahar Amjad Sheikh (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    The objective of this study is to understand why parents in rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan, choose to send their children to private schools when free public schools are available. The study utilizes the Privatization in ...
  • Microinsurance in Pakistan: Progress, Problems, and Prospects 
    Theresa Thompson Chaudhry; Fazilda Nabeel (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Microinsurance in Pakistan is still in its nascent stages. More than half of the current microinsurance policies in effect in Pakistan are offered through the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), with the remainder ...
  • Human Development and Economic Uncertainties: Exploring Another Dimension of Development 
    Jamshed Y. Uppal; Syeda Rabab Mudakkar (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    This study makes the case that economic uncertainties—i.e., the extent to which economies face systemic uncertainties—need to be considered another dimension of human development because they render development ...
  • Two Social Protection Programs in Pakistan 
    Ijaz Nabi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Pakistan has launched two far reaching social protection programs. The federal government’s Benazir Income Support Program has, at its core, an unconditional cash grant for the poorest households. Responding to the ...
  • Increased Rural Connectivity and its Effects on Health Outcomes 
    Hadia Majid (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    This paper examines the effects of increased connectivity in rural areas on child health outcomes. In particular, it studies whether improved access to markets for rural areas through an upgraded road network and greater ...
  • Improving Public Health Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan Issues and Opportunities 
    Michael Callen; Saad Gulzar; Ali Hasanain; Abdul Rehman Khan; Yasir Khan; Muhammad Zia Mehmood (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Pakistan has a large and dispersed primary public health system that gives citizens access to trained doctors and staff, and to subsidized medicines. However, both the use of these facilities and health outcomes remain ...
  • The State of Health in Pakistan An Overview 
    Uzma Afzal; Anam Yusuf (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Although the Millennium Development Goals provide countries with wellrounded objectives for achieving human development over a period of 25 years, Pakistan is not on track to achieving the health-related goals. With the ...
  • Historical Inequality and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Punjab 
    Ali Cheema; Muhammad Farooq Naseer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    We analyze educational attainment over three generations in rural Punjab, Pakistan, to determine if the fruits of post-independence development have translated into comparable rates of educational and social opportunities ...
  • Patronage in Rural Punjab: Evidence from a New Household Survey Dataset 
    Azam Chaudhry; Kate Vyborny (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    The intervention of local elites is often cited as an impediment to policy implementation in many developing countries. In this paper, we present initial results from an original primary household dataset from eight ...
  • Measuring the Differential Economic Impact of Education across Income Groups and Provinces in Pakistan: A Model- Consistent Approach 
    Fahd Rehman; Russel J. Cooper (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Engel’s Law states that the share of food in household expenditure declines with households’ total expenditure—a regularity that is clearly evident in Pakistani household income and expenditure data. This study uses an ...
  • Analyzing the Market for Shadow Education in Pakistan: Does Private Tuition Affect the Learning Gap between Private and Public Schools? 
    Bisma Haseeb Khan; Sahar Amjad Shaikh (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Over the past decade, Pakistan has seen the rapid growth of a third sector in education: shadow education. According to the Annual Survey of Education Report (2013), 34 percent of private school students and 17 percent ...
  • Preparing Women of Substance? Education, Training, and Labor Market Outcomes for Women in Pakistan 
    Monazza Aslam; Shenila Rawal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    This paper investigates the economic (i.e., labor market) outcomes of “training” for individuals in Pakistan. The labor market benefits of general education have been relatively well explored in the literature and ...
  • Struggling against the Odds of Poverty, Access, and Gender: Secondary Schooling for Girls in Pakistan 
    Zeba A. Sathar; Asif Wazir; Maqsood Sadiq (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    While schooling outcomes for girls have improved over the period 2001–11, progress has been uneven within Pakistan. Rural girls lag far behind urban girls and progress across the provinces remains unequal. The transition ...
  • The Public School System in Sindh: Empirical Insights 
    Salman Asim (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    This paper presents descriptive statistics on the government school education system in Sindh. The data are obtained from the latest administrative annual school census in Sindh (2011/12). The province’s schooling system ...
  • Education in Pakistan’s Punjab: Outcomes and Interventions 
    Masooma Habib (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    One of the most critical challenges Pakistan faces today is the need to improve and expand its education system. With important political and demographic changes taking place, greater devolution and strengthened democracy, ...
  • Balancing Market and Government Failure in Service Delivery 
    Jeffrey S. Hammer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    Whether to provide services by the public or the private sector has been at the center of debates within governments and those in the international aid industry for decades. Unfortunately, this debate has often been cast ...
  • Editors’ Introduction 
    Jeffrey Hammer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    The Lahore School’s Ninth Annual Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy took place on 20 – 21 March, 2013 and the topic of this year’s conference was: “Human Capital Development for Sustained Economic Growth”. ...
  • On the (Ir)Relevance of Monetary Aggregate Targeting in Pakistan An Eclectic View 
    Adnan Haider; Asad Jan; Kalim Hyder (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-12)
    This study attempts to identify a stable money demand function for Pakistan’s economy, where the monetary aggregate is considered the nominal anchor. With evolving financial innovations and regulations, the stability of ...

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