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@farahsaid.bsky.social

Development Economist in Pakistan, studying financial inclusion, labor market participation, and gender. Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/farahziasaid/

125 Followers  |  174 Following  |  1 Posts  |  Joined: 21.12.2023  |  2.1531

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Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

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15.11.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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πŸ†• RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @farahsaid.bsky.social, Sonia Bhalotra, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming introduce and validate a novel approach to measuring management skills. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

03.11.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Economics Literature Search Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

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This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

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02.11.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 360    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 13
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Call for two Stephan Klasen Fellowships at the University of GΓΆttingen,
for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries.

Applications close 16th November 2025.

www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html

25.10.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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An underrated reason for the persistence of cousin marriages: high fertility maintains a large supply of cousins. Could (help) explain why Pakistan’s first-cousin marriage rate is 50%!!! versus India and Bangladesh <10%.

03.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September?

@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n

02.09.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAD, GΒ²LM|LIC comes to Lahore this Sept in collaboration with Pathways to Development (path2dev.org)!

Apply to join us at LUMS to share your work, with dedicated mentoring for PhD students & junior researchers in South Asia, plus sessions with policymakers. Details below.
#EconSky #EconConf

02.04.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer? Research shows that microfinance clients use credit and savings as commitment devices to accumulate lump sums. Evidence from Pakistan suggests high demand for fixed-repayment contracts, but low demand...

πŸ†• What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer?

Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...

12.03.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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