Path2Dev Conference Program
Day One | Monday, Dec 18th, 2023
| Time | Session |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome Address |
| 09:30 – 10:30 SS Auditorium | Keynote Address I: The Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice: The Case of a Hard Country Stefan Dercon (Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford) |
| 11:00 – 13:00 SS Auditorium | Parallel Session I: Health and Immunization |
| Evaluation At Scale: Incentives for Immunization in Pakistan Maryiam Haroon (University of Chicago) | |
| Maternal Mental Health, Health Expectations and the Demand for Childhood Immunizations in Pakistan Javed Younas (American University of Sharjah) | |
| Optimizing Community-Health-Worker Resources to Scale Child Nutrition Programs in Rural Pakistan Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University) | |
| Education and Inequities in Social Health Protection Programs: Evidence from Pakistan Andreas Landmann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) | |
| 11:00 – 13:00 A3 Auditorium | Parallel Session II: Historical Trajectory in Economic Development |
| Hydro-Heritage for Healing? Examining the Gendered Experience of Water in Post Conflict Swat, Pakistan Daanish Mustafa (King’s College) | |
| Political (Mis)selection: The Role of Historical Institutions Ryu Matsuura (Northwestern University) | |
| Long Term Effect of Refugee Resettlement: Evidence from Pakistan Through Partition Rinchan Ali Mirza (University of Kent) | |
| Legacies of Inequality: The Canal Colonies of Punjab Noaman Ali (Bath University) & Alexander Lee (Rochester University) | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 SS Auditorium | Parallel Session III: Poverty Alleviation |
| What Happens When Cash Transfers Suddenly End? Nasir Iqbal (PIDE Quaid-e-Azam University) | |
| Experimental Evidence on the Role of Coaching Within Bundled Ultra-Poor Graduation Programmes Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford) | |
| Micro-Equity and Mutuality: Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment Muhammad Meki (University of Oxford) & Simon Quinn (Imperial College London) | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 A3 Auditorium | Parallel Session IV: Education and Development |
| Transmitting Rights Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford) | |
| The Slippery Slopes of Foundational Learning- Stemming the Storm Meenal Javed (Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi) | |
| Educate the Girls: Long Run Effects of Secondary Schooling for Girls in Pakistan Farah Said (LUMS) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 SS Auditorium | Panel Session I: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: Where did their growth trajectories diverge? |
| Panel Convenors: Ijaz Nabi (CDPR) & Hadia Majid (LUMS) ⬤ Ishrat Husain (Former Governor State Bank of Pakistan) ⬤ Sadiq Ahmed (Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh) ⬤ Rakesh Mohan (Centre for Social and Economic Progress India) |
Day Two | Tuesday, Dec 19th, 2023
| Time | Session |
| 9:30-10:30 SS Auditorium | Keynote Address II: War and Revolutionary Change Steven Wilkinson (Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Yale University) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tea Break |
| 11:00-13:00 A3 Auditorium | Parallel Session V: Climate Change and Adaptation |
| How the Rural Poor Cope with a Climate Catastrophe: Evidence from Pakistan’s 2022 Floods Amen Jalal (London School of Economics) | |
| Unintended Consequences of Government Support: Impact of Pakistan’s Flood Relief Program on Adaptation Behavior Muhammad Bin Khalid (National University of Singapore) | |
| Beliefs, Signal Quality, and Information Sources: Experimental Evidence on Air Quality in Pakistan Isra Imtiaz (Independent) | |
| Vulnerable Markets: Assessing the Impact of Extreme Flooding on Fresh Produce Prices in Punjab, Pakistan Sher Afghan Asad (LUMS) | |
| 11:00-13:00 SS Auditorium | Parallel Session VI: Gender and Labor Markets |
| Wage Subsidies to Promote Female Hiring: Evidence from Pakistan Maurizio Bussolo (World Bank) | |
| Barriers to Entry: Decomposing the Gender Gap in Job Search in Urban Pakistan Zunia Saif Tirmazee (Lahore School of Economics) | |
| Reform Impacts: Analyzing How Merit-Based Medical Admissions Have Affected Medical Outcomes in Pakistan Fatima Aqeel (Colgate University) | |
| Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior Zahra Siddique (Bristol University) | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:30 SS Auditorium | Parallel Session VII: Measurement of Poverty and Inequality |
| Living Wage in Pakistan: Estimates, Adoption and Policy Challenges Kabeer Dawani (Independent) & Asad Sayeed (CSSR) | |
| Trend in Inter-Provincial Income Disparities in Pakistan Hafiz Pasha (Beaconhouse National University) | |
| Thirty Years of Income, Wealth and Wage Inequality in Pakistan Abid Burki (LUMS) | |
| 14:00-15:30 A3 Auditorium | Panel Session II: Gender and Development from Education, Anthropological & Political Perspectives |
| Panel Convenor: Anjum Halai (Aga Khan University) ● Stephen Lyon (Aga Khan University) ● Tahira S. Khan (Aga Khan University) ● Minahil Asim (Ottawa University) | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Tea Break |
| 16:00-17:30 SS Auditorium | Panel Session III: Can Pakistan Grow with a Forty Percent Child Stunting Rate? |
| Panel Convenor: Kulsum Ahmed (Integrated Learning Means) ● Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank) ● Nousheen Zaidi (CRC University of the Punjab) ● Sanval Nasim (Colby College) | |
| 16:00-17:30 A3 Auditorium | Panel Session IV: Gender, Technology, and Women’s Empowerment |
| Panel Convenor: Hadia Majid (LUMS) ● Zainab Latif (Tabadlab) ● Zahra Rao (Tabadlab) ● Maryam Mustafa (LUMS) Discussants: Rabia Kamal (LUMS), Zainab Saeed (Karandaaz), Maria Umar (Women’s Digital League) | |
| 17:30-18:40 | Break |
| 18:40 – 19:40 SS Auditorium | Keynote Address III: Public Opinion in Palestine before the Conflict Amaney A. Jamal (Dean, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) |
Day Three | Wednesday, Dec 20th, 2023
| Time | Session |
| 09:30-10:30 SS Auditorium | Keynote Address IV: Gender Justice and the Wellbeing Economy: Some Reflections on our Common Future Naila Kabeer (Professor of Gender & Development, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Tea Break |
| 11:00-13:00 SS Auditorium | Parallel Session VIII: Elite Capture and Political Economy |
| Unpacking Rural-Urban Clientelist Networks Mahvish Shami (London School of Economics) | |
| Demanding the Last Mile: Foreign Aid and Political Participation in Pakistan Syeda Shahbano Ijaz (Occidental College) | |
| Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan Shan Aman Rana (University of Virginia) | |
| Constructing Electricity as Entitlement—Energy Politics in Lahore, Pakistan Erum Haider (The College of Wooster) | |
| 11:00-13:00 A3 Auditorium | Parallel Session IX: Inequality, Policy and the Economy |
| The Effects of Taxes, Transfers, and Public Spending on Inequality: Evidence from Pakistan Obeid Ur Rehman (Toronto Metropolitan University) | |
| Firm Ownership Concentration and Income Inequality Haris Khan (Information Technology University) | |
| Obfuscated Liberalization: How Special Interest Groups Capture Trade Policy in Pakistan Adeel Malik (University of Oxford) | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00-16:00 A3 Auditorium | Parallel Session X: Early Career Session |
| Hundred Percent Legal, Hundred Percent Illegal: Building a Modern City for a Dying River, Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project Iman Khan (Cornell University) | |
| Intra-household Bargaining Power and Expenditure Patterns – Evidence from Pakistan Abdullah Mehta (Institute of Business Administration) | |
| Religion and the Female ‘Other’: Representation of Gender in Classroom Discourses in Pakistan Laraib Niaz (Cambridge University) | |
| Wellbeing Index and Value of Household Work and Expenditure Saving Market Work in GDP: A Gender Based Analysis in Pakistan GulRukh Zahid (AERC University of Karachi) | |
| 14:00-16:00 SS Auditorium | Parallel Session XI: Judiciary and State Institutions |
| At the Margins of the State: Civic and Political Engagement in Difficult Settings Mudabbir Ali (Lok Sujag) & Maheen Pracha (Human Rights Commission Pakistan) | |
| The Unintended Consequences of Accountability: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Policing in Pakistan Hamna Ahmad (Lahore School of Economics) | |
| Judicial Capture Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School) | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Closing Tea |