The Fieldwork Diaries

How to Run Surveys – Lessons from Survey Design and Implementation for the project “The Political Economy of Progressive Taxation in Pakistan”

Surveys are an invaluable research tool, they can help us understand non-observable phenomena such as perception, preferences, and beliefs which are the major determinants of social, political,...

May 10, 2024

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Fostering Resilient Research Partnerships for Institutional Reforms

There has been a growing instance of studying institutional change through lab-in-field experiments, including survey experiments, behavioural games and randomised controlled trials. Studying institutional change...

Ahsan Zia Farooqui

Feb 28, 2024

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What Gets Women to Mobilize? Insights from Fieldwork

Women’s participation in political and public life is generally lower compared to their male counterparts around the world. This is especially true for developing country...

Rida Fatima, Ayesha Mursleen

Feb 7, 2024

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Encountering Stigma in Special Education Research

In the beginning, I kept the details of my work hidden from my parents. I was certain that if they discovered that I was working...

Nov 27, 2023

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