Working Papers and Publications
- (new) Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning (with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Khwaja) January 2009.
Previously circulated as "Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics" - (new) India shining and Bharat drowning: comparing two Indian states to the worldwide distribution in mathematics achievement (with Jishnu Das) Journal of Development Economics. forthcoming.
Stata software available: OpenIRT.
- Learning Levels and Gaps in Pakistan (with Jishnu Das and Priyanka Pandey) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #4067. November, 2006.
- Can
Foreign Aid Create an Incentive for Good Governance? Evidence from the
Millennium Challenge Corporation (with Doug Johnson)
April, 2006.
- Religious
School Enrollment
in Pakistan: A Look at the Data (with Tahir Andrabi,
Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja). Comparative
Education Review, Vol 50 (2006).
Selected Coverage: The Economist, Foreign Policy, NY Times, Kennedy School Insight Series, Al-Jazeera.Winner of the George Bereday Award for outstanding article published in the CER for the year 2006.
- Madrassa Metrics: The Statistics and Rhetoric of Religious Enrollment in Pakistan. (with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Khwaja). Forthcoming in Beyond Crisis: A Critical Second Look at Pakistan, Routledge.
- Black Enterprise and the Legacy of Slavery. Review of Black Political Economy. Winter 2003, 30:3.
Projects
- LEAPS Project - A randomized trial of report cards and large panel survey covering public and private school in Punjab, Pakistan.
- OpenIRT - Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of IRT Models.
- Scythe MCMC - Scythe MCMC is a C++ header library that eases the development of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers.