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Working Papers

2025

1. Command and Can’t Control: Assessing Centralized Accountability in the Public Sector
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2024

2. Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's frontier crimes regulation
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
   See also Journal Article Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's Frontier Crimes Regulation, Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science (2024) (2024)

2023

3. "Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   Also in SocArXiv, Center for Open Science (2021) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Good Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2025) (2025)

2020

4. Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (16)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2020) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2020) View citations (21) (2020)
5. Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association (2020) View citations (10) (2020)

2019

6. Kickbacks and limits on campaign donations
   Research Department working papers, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica

2016

7. Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (3)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014) View citations (6)
8. The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (16)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (16)

2015

9. Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan
   Working Paper Series, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government View citations (30)
   Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2015) View citations (21)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (25)
   See also Journal Article Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press (2025) (2025)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India
   American Political Science Review, 2025, 119, (2), 812-831
2. Good Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2025, 92, (1), 339-364
   See also Working Paper "Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance, IZA Discussion Papers (2023) (2023)
3. Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73, (3), 1439 - 1474
   See also Working Paper Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan, Working Paper Series (2015) View citations (30) (2015)

2024

4. Bureaucrat incentives reduce crop burning and child mortality in South Asia
   Nature, 2024, 634, (8036), 1125-1131
5. Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's Frontier Crimes Regulation
   Economica, 2024, 91, (363), 701-718
   See also Working Paper Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's frontier crimes regulation, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2024) (2024)
6. Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas
   American Political Science Review, 2024, 118, (2), 764-783

2023

7. The political economy of public sector absence
   Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, (C) View citations (4)

2020

8. Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
   Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, (C) View citations (21)
   See also Working Paper Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (16) (2020)
9. Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas
   American Political Science Review, 2020, 114, (4), 1230-1246 View citations (10)
   See also Chapter Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas, Springer Books, 2023, 729-759 (2023) (2023)
10. Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
    (Economics And Identity)
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, (5), 2532-2560 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2020) View citations (4) (2020)

2017

11. Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Development: Evidence from India
    American Political Science Review, 2017, 111, (1), 162-183 View citations (32)

2013

12. Improving Public Health Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan: Issues and Opportunities
    Lahore Journal of Economics, 2013, 18, (Special Edition), 249-269 View citations (4)

Chapters

2023

1. Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas
   Springer
   See also Journal Article Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas, Cambridge University Press (2020) View citations (10) (2020)