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  • Size and Value Premium in Karachi Stock Exchange 
    Nawazish Mirza (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008)
    Investment decisions are based on the rational return expectations and investors require returns that are aligned with their risk and utility. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in the financial theory as well ...
  • Agricultural Growth in Irrigated Punjab: Some Issues and Policies 
    Mahmood Hasan Khan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008)
    This paper focuses on some of the major policy issues for accelerating a sustainable and equitable agricultural growth process in Punjab in the next five to ten years. There are numerous policy issues given the multiple ...
  • Economic Development- A view from the Provinces 
    Khalid Ikram. (© Lahore School of Economics, 2009)
    Analysis of economic development in Pakistan has traditionally followed a "top-down" approach. This approach—that it is the federation as a whole rather than the federating units that matter— is so ingrained that even ...
  • Speculative Bubbles in Karachi Stock Exchange 
    Nawazish Mirza (Lahore School of Economics, 2009)
    The fair price of a stock represents discounted claims on the future profitability of a firm. If markets are perfect, prevailing price level should exhibit a stable relationship with these claims. Dividends are a medium to ...
  • Evaluating the Impact of Microcredit on Women's Empowerment in Pakistan 
    Salman Asim (© Lahore School of Economics, 2009)
    In this paper we evaluate the impact of microcredit on indicators of women’s empowerment in the urban slums of the Lahore district of Pakistan. A household level instrument that contains information on different dimensions ...
  • Cross Country Growth Spillovers:Seperating the Impact of Cultural Distance from Geographical Distance 
    Azam Chaudhry; Rabia Ikram (© Lahore School of Economics, 2011)
    While advances in technology have effectively reduced the distance that knowledge and innovations have to travel between countries, cultural differences between countries can still limit the ease with which innovations ...
  • The Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: An Instrumental Variable Approach 
    Mehak Ejaz (Lahore School of Economics, 2011)
    This working paper analyzes the determinants of female labor force participation (FLFP) across rural and urban Pakistan. It provides evidence supporting various aspects of the female labor supply by utilizing crosssectional ...
  • Investigating the Proposed Changes to Pakistan's Corporate Bankruptcy Code 
    Ali Hasanain; Syed Ahsan Ahmad Shah (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012)
    Over the last few years, firms in Pakistan have failed at an alarming rate, prompting some parties in the business community to call for government intervention, specifically by reforming insolvency law to make, inter alia, ...
  • The determinants of Child Health and Nutritional Status in Punjab: An Economic Analysis 
    Uzma Afzal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012)
    Child health is considered a key indicator of economic development and the quality of life in developing countries. It is also closely related to other development indicators such as adult health, educational attainment, ...
  • The Effects of External Migration on Enrolments, Accumulated Schooling, and Dropouts in Punjab 
    Rabia Arif; Azam Chaudhry (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012)
    In developing countries, external migration tends to ease household income constraints because of the external remittances that are generated. Using data on the Punjab, this working paper attempts to determine whether the ...
  • Determinants of School Choice: Evidence from Rural Punjab, Pakistan 
    Hamna Ahmed; Sahar Amjad; Masooma Habib; Syed Ahsan Shah (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013)
    The objective of this study is to understand why parents in rural areas choose low-cost private schools when free public schools are available. The study employs data from the Privatization in Education Research Initiative ...
  • The effects of Agglomeration on the Formation and Scale of Operation of New Firms. 
    Maryiam Haroon (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013)
    The formation of new firms is an important determinant of economic and regional development. The literature on industrial organization highlights agglomeration as one of the main factors enhancing the formation and scale ...
  • Agglomeration and Firm Turnover 
    Marjan Nasir (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013)
    The geographic and industrial concentration of firms affects firm turnover, as highlighted in research on industrial organization. This study conducts a firm-level analysis to determine the impact of agglomeration on ...
  • Labor Pooling as a Determinant of Industrial Agglomeration. 
    Najm uz Zehra Gardezi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013)
    This paper analyzes the agglomeration behavior exhibited by manufacturing firms in Punjab. Employing a unique dataset, it constructs a distance-based measure of agglomeration to verify the existence of localization ...
  • Education, Employment, and Women’s Say in Household Decision-Making in Pakistan 
    Duryab Fatima (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014)
    This study uses data from the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey for 2007/08 to conduct an empirical analysis of the relationship between education, employment, and women’s say in household ...
  • The Impact of Parents’ Subjective Aspirations on Schooling Investment in Rural Punjab 
    Anam Ashraf (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014)
    Human capital accumulation is a key indicator of the development process and is closely related to other development indicators such as socioeconomic status and occupational productivity. This study examines the human ...
  • Attitudes Towards Risk in the Wake of a Rare Event 
    Farah Said; Uzma Afzal; Ginger Turner (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014)
    This paper investigates the impact of rare-event experiences and observations on risk taking. Matching detailed individual, household, and community-level surveys with behavioral games data, we explore the mechanisms ...
  • Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity in Punjab 
    Muhammad Haseeb; Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014)
    This paper follows Hsieh and Klenow’s (2009) study in examining the role of misallocation in aggregate productivity for manufacturing plants in Punjab, Pakistan. Using data on manufacturing plants in Punjab from the ...
  • Caste, Social Exclusion, and Opportunities for Education in Rural Punjab 
    Tayyaba Tamim; Marriam Musa; Hana Tariq; Shahzeb Rathore (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    Although caste-based social stratification and unequal access to educational opportunities coexist in several parts of South Asia, their interconnection remains underexplored in the context of Pakistan. This paper ...
  • Natural Disasters and Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan 
    Uzma Afzal; Ginger Turner; Farah Said (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    Apart from the economic and structural losses associated with a natural disaster, the communities it affects also undergo a loss in social capital, which can affect perceptions, levels of trust, and social cohesion. ...

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