Lahore Journal of Economics

2000 - 2023

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Volume 18, issue Special Edition, 2013

Balancing Market and Government Failure in Service Delivery pp. 1-19

Jeffrey Hammer

Education in Pakistan’s Punjab: Outcomes and Interventions pp. 21-48

Masooma Habib

The Public School System in Sindh: Empirical Insights pp. 49-66

Salman Asim

Struggling against the Odds of Poverty, Access, and Gender: Secondary Schooling for Girls in Pakistan pp. 67-92

Zeba A. Sathar, Asif Wazir and Maqsood Sadiq

Preparing Women of Substance? Education, Training, and Labor Market Outcomes for Women in Pakistan pp. 93-128

Monazza Aslam and Shenila Rawal

Analyzing the Market for Shadow Education in Pakistan: Does Private Tuition Affect the Learning Gap between Private and Public Schools? pp. 129-160

Bisma Haseeb Khan and Sahar Amjad Shaikh

Measuring the Differential Economic Impact of Education across Income Groups and Provinces in Pakistan: A Model-Consistent Approach pp. 161-182

Fahd Rehman and Russel Cooper

Patronage in Rural Punjab: Evidence from a New Household Survey Dataset pp. 183-209

Azam Chaudhry and Kate Vyborny

Historical Inequality and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Punjab pp. 211-231

Ali Cheema and Muhammad Farooq Naseer

The State of Health in Pakistan: An Overview pp. 233-247

Uzma Afzal and Anam Yusuf

Improving Public Health Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan: Issues and Opportunities pp. 249-269

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Abdul Rehman Khan, Yasir Khan and Muhammad Zia Mehmood

Increased Rural Connectivity and its Effects on Health Outcomes pp. 271-281

Hadia Majid

Two Social Protection Programs in Pakistan pp. 283-304

Ijaz Nabi

Human Development and Economic Uncertainties: Exploring Another Dimension of Development pp. 305-334

Jamshed Uppal and Syeda Rabab Mudakkar

Microinsurance in Pakistan: Progress, Problems, and Prospects pp. 335-374

Theresa Chaudhry and Fazilda Nabeel

Volume 18, issue 2, 2013

An Analysis of the Relationship between Inflation and Gold Prices: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 1-35

Saira Tufail and Sadia Batool

Choice of Anchor Currencies and Dynamic Preferences for Exchange Rate Pegging in Asia pp. 37-49

Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi, Bushra Naqvi and Nawazish Mirza

Economic Returns to Education in France: OLS and Instrumental Variable Estimations pp. 51-63

Sajjad Haider Bhatti, Jean Bourdon and Muhammad Aslam

On the (Ir)Relevance of Monetary Aggregate Targeting in Pakistan: An Eclectic View pp. 65-119

Adnan Haider, Asad Jan and Kalim Hyder

Forward-Looking and Backward-Looking Taylor Rules: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 121-145

Nadia Tahir

Estimating Firms’ Vulnerability to Short-Term Financing Shocks: The Case of Foreign Exchange Companies in Pakistan pp. 147-163

Ijaz Hussain

Volume 18, issue 1, 2013

One-Step-Ahead Forecastability of GARCH (1,1): A Comparative Analysis of USD- and PKR-Based Exchange Rate Volatilities pp. 1-38

Abdul Khan and Parvez Azim

Interest Rate Pass-Through: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan pp. 39-62

Sheikh Khurram Fazal and Muhammad Abdus Salam

Does Equity Derivatives Trading Affect the Systematic Risk of the Underlying Stocks in an Emerging Market: Evidence from Pakistan’s Futures Market pp. 63-80

Safi Ullah Khan and Zaheer Abbas

The Co-determinants of Capital Structure and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Karachi Stock Exchange pp. 81-92

Hamid Ahmad, Bashir A. Fida and Muhammad Zakaria

The Export Supply Response ofMangoes: A Cointegration and Causality Analysis pp. 93-116

Abdul Ghafoor, Khalid Mushtaq and Abedullah Abedullah

The Impact of Health Information Provision on Breast Cancer-Related Knowledge and Protective Behaviors: An Experiment in Health Education pp. 117-133

Sarah Shahed

Volume 17, issue Special Edition, 2012

Toward a Heterodox Approach: Reconciling Stabilization and Economic Growth in Pakistan pp. 1-32

Irfan ul Haque and Sahar Amjad

The Captivating Vision of the “New Growth Strategy”: The Missing Political Economy Perspective pp. 33-49

S. Akbar Zaidi

Stagflation, the Labor Market Impact, and the Poverty Puzzle in Pakistan: A Preliminary Analysis pp. 51-71

Rashid Amjad

Pakistan’s Power Crisis: How Did We Get Here? pp. 73-82

Kamal A. Munir and Salman Khalid

Industrialization by Fitting in: Acquiring Technology through Collaboration and Subcontracting pp. 83-102

Sikander Rahim

Export Barriers in Pakistan: Results of a Firm-Level Survey pp. 103-134

Rashid Amjad, Ejaz Ghani, Musleh-ud Din and Tariq Mahmood

The Constraints to Industry in Punjab, Pakistan pp. 135-189

Syed Hussain, Usman Khan, Kashif Zaheer Malik and Adeel Faheem

The Birth of Exporters: Entry and Scale of Firms in Punjab’s Export Sectors pp. 191-212

Azam Chaudhry, Marjan Nasir and Maryiam Haroon

Competitiveness and Pakistan: A Dangerous, Distorting, and Dead-End Obsession? pp. 213-241

Matthew McCartney

Pakistan’s Quest for a New Growth Vent: Lessons from History pp. 243-269

Ijaz Nabi

The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Pakistan’s Trade with China and Other Neighbors pp. 271-292

Naved Hamid and Sarah Hayat

The Prospects for Indo-Pakistan Trade pp. 293-313

Hafiz A. Pasha and Muhammad Imran

Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Agreements with India and Pakistan: Are They Leading Bilateral Trade Beyond Normalcy? pp. 315-337

Sirimal Abeyratne

Making Devolution Work in Pakistan pp. 339-357

Aisha Ghaus-Pasha

Adapting Public Sector Services to Local Delivery pp. 359-385

Ishrat Husain

The 18th Constitutional Amendment: Glue or Solvent for Nation Building and Citizenship in Pakistan? pp. 387-424

Anwar Shah

Civil Service Management in Devolved Government: Reconciling Local Accountability and Career Incentives in Pakistan pp. 425-445

Musharraf Cyan

Volume 17, issue 2, 2012

The Impact of Public School Enrolment on Child Labor in Punjab, Pakistan pp. 1-34

Hamna Ahmed

What Does Pakistan Have to Join the Inflation Targeters’ Club—a Royal Flush or a Seven-Deuce Offsuit? pp. 35-62

Akber Rizvi, Bushra Naqvi and Sayyid Salman Rizavi

Human Capital and MultifacetedInnovation: Evidence from the Lahore Knitwear Cluster in Pakistan pp. 63-86

Fahd Rehman

The Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect: Evidence from Pakistan pp. 87-110

Tayyaba Idrees and Saira Tufail

A Benefit Incidence Analysisof Public Spending on Education in PakistanUsing PSLM Data pp. 111-136

Zahid Asghar and Mudassar Zahra

Poverty, Income Inequality, and Growth in Pakistan: A Pooled Regression Analysis pp. 137-157

Ahmed Raza Cheema and Ahmed Raza Cheema

Book Review: McCartney, Mathew, Pakistan – The Political Economy of Growth, Stagnation and the State, 1951–2009,Routledge, London and New York, ISBN13: 978-0-415-57747-2 and ISBN13: 978-0-203-81476-5, 2011, pp. 241 pp. 159-161

Nina Gera

Volume 17, issue 1, 2012

A Decomposition Analysis of Capital Structure: Evidence from Pakistan’s Manufacturing Sector pp. 1-31

Attiya Javid and Qaisar Imad

The Consequences of Easy Credit Policy, High Gearing, and Firms’ Profitability in Pakistan’s Textile Sector: A Panel Data Analysis pp. 33-44

Ijaz Hussain

Human Capital Convergence: Evidence from the Punjab pp. 45-61

Uzma Afzal

Does Access to Modern Marketing Channels Improve Dairy Enterprises’ Efficiency? A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan pp. 63-82

Sana Sadaf and Khalid Riaz

The Impact of Gypsum Application on Groundnut Yield in Rainfed Pothwar: An Economic Perspective pp. 83-100

Hussnain Shah, Muhammad Azeem Khan, Tariq Azeem, Abdul Majid and Abid Mehmood

The Determinants of Food Prices in Pakistan pp. 101-128

Henna Ahsan, Zainab Iftikhar and M. Ali Kemal