Afzal, U., dAdda, G., Fafchamps, Quinn S. and Said, F. (2024). Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A field experiment, The Economic Journal, 134 (664), 3063-3095.

DARE-RC (PKR 27,640,058) Scaling Impact: Large-Scale Human Capital Interventions for Low Income Children in Punjab (Co-PIs: Amer Hasan, Syed M. Hasan and Kate Vyborny)

Said, F., Mahmud, M., dAdda, G., and Chaudhry, A. (2022). Home-based Enterprises: Experimental evidence on female preferences from Pakistan, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 71 (1), 185-221.

Afzal, U., dAdda, G., Fafchamps, and Said, F. (2022). Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A triple experimental investigation, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (3), 400-444.

Haroon, M., Said, F., and Zafar, M. (2022). Changing Mindset to Foster Non-cognitive Skills and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan, Journal of Asian Economics, 81, 101499.

Abdelnabi, M. Afraz, N., Ahmed, T., Ayub, A., Makki, F., Said, F., Schiektekat, P. and Vlaev,I. (2024). Nudging Tax Filing Through Text Message Combinations: Evidence from Pakistan. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-22 (Available online, 10 December 2024).

Ahmed, H., Mahmud, M., Said, F., and Tirmazee, Z. (2024). Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a role model intervention in Pakistan, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 72 (2), 919-957.

Bonan, J., dAdda, G., Mahmud, M., and Said, F. (2023). Nudging Payment Behaviour: Evidence from a field experiment on pay-as-you-go off-grid electricity, World Bank Economic Review, 37 (4), 620-639.

Weidmann, B., Vecci, J., Said, F., Deming, D. J., and Bhalotra, S. R. (2026). How Do You Identify a Good Manager? The Quarterly Journal of Economics (Forthcoming).

Hussain, S., and Said, F. (2017). Diversification on Small Farms: An empirical investigation of panel data for 2001-10, The Lahore Journal of Economics, 22: SE, 233-250.

Mahmud, M., Musaddiq, T. and Said, F. (2010). Internal Migration Patterns in Pakistan: Case for fiscal decentralization. Pakistan Development Review, 49 (4), 593- 607

Malik, K., Meki, M., Morduch, J., Ogden, T., Quinn, S., and Said, F. (2020). COVID-19 and the Future of Microfinance: Evidence and insights from Pakistan, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 36, Issue Supplement 1, S138-S168.

Said, F., Afzal, U., and Turner, G. (2015). Risk Taking and Risk Learning after a rare event: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118, 167-183.

Said, F., Musaddiq, T. and Mahmud M. (2011). Macro Level Determinants of Poverty: Investigation through Poverty Mapping of Districts of Pakistan. Pakistan Development Review, 50 (4), 895- 911.

Said, F., Mahmud, M., dAdda, G., and Chaudhry, A. (2020). It is Not Power, But How You Use it: Experimental evidence on altruism from households in Pakistan, Applied Economics Letters, 27 (5), 426-431.

Afzal, U., dAdda, G., Fafchamps, M., Quinn, S., and Said, F. (2018). Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing demand for microcredit and microsaving in a framed field experiment in rural Pakistan, The Economic Journal, 128 (614), 2161-2190.

Said, F. (2016). Access to Finance and Agency: An overview of the constraints to female-run enterprises, The Lahore Journal of Economics, 21: SE, 331-349.

Turner, G., Said, F., and Afzal, U. (2014). Micro insurance Demand after a Rare Event: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance- Issues and Practice, 39, 201-223.

Ahmed, H. and Said, F. (2012). Determinants of Export Performance in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from South Asia. Pakistan Development Review, 51 (4), 227- 243.

Musaddiq, T., and Said, F. (2023). Educate the Girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan, World Development, 161, 106115.

Said, F., and Malik, A. (2024). Chapter 6: Rethinking the Role of Structural Change in Fertility Transition, in Pakistan@2050: Demographic Change, Future Projections, and Development Opportunities. Islamabad, Pakistan: Population Council.

Turner, G., Said, F., Afzal, U. and Campbell, K. (2014). Chapter 13: The Effect of Early Flood Warnings on Mitigation and Recovery during the 2010 Pakistan Floods, in Preventing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change, United Nations Environmental Programme.

Asad, S. A., Gondal, O., and Said, F. (2024). Asymmetric information, relational contracts, and prices: Evidence from fresh produce supply chain in Pakistan.

Asad, S. A., Gondal, O., and Said, F. (2025). Vulnerable Markets: Impact of Extreme Flooding on Agriculture Supply Networks in Punjab, Pakistan.

IGC (?17,362): Naya Pakistan: Providing affordable housing to low income households (co-PIs Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn).

IPA ($74,902): Interoperable Payment Systems (Pakistan) (co-PIs Kashif Malik, Phillip Roessler, Russell Toth and Tiffany Tsai).

ESRC-DFID and IGC (?522,000): Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in Pakistan (co-PIs Uzma Afzal, Giovanna dAdda, Marcel Fafchamps and Simon Quinn; funds based at University of Oxford and Lahore School of Economics).

IGC (?40,000): Asymmetric Information, Relational Contracts, and Prices in Fresh Produce Supply Chain in Pakistan (co-PIs Sher Afghan Asad and Omar Gondal).

BRAC-WeConnect ($266,237), IPA ($381,000), IGC(?65,000): Women at the Wheel: A Digital Pathway to Womens Economic Participation in Transport (Co-PIs Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn).

IGC and PEDL (?89,992): Electricity Reliability and Small Business Performance: Evidence from Pakistan (co-PIs Jacopo Bonan, Giovanna dAdda and Massimo Tavoni; funds based at Lahore School of Economics).

IPA ($199,939): Overcoming Belief Gaps to Enhance Digital Payment Adoption in Pakistan (co-PIs Kashif Malik, Phillip Roessler, Russell Toth and Tiffany Tsai).

University of Oxford (?61,200): Increasing Female employment in the Transportation Sector in Pakistan (co-PIs Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn)

IGC (?99,992), World Bank ($ 79,950): State Reform, Land Rights, and Rural Livelihoods in Pakistan (co-PIs Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan and Kate Vyborny).

JPAL-ATAI ($29,992): Asymmetric Information, Relational Contracts, and Prices in Fresh Produce Supply Chain in Pakistan (co-PIs Sher Afghan Asad and Omar Gondal).

IGC (?19,987): Vulnerable Markets: Assessing the impact of climate-induced shocks on fresh produce supply chains in Punjab (co-PIs Sher Afghan Asad and Omar Gondal).

GLM-LIC and PEDL (e188,000): Overcoming Constraints on Female Labor Force Entry (co-PIs Hamna Ahmed, Naved Hamid, Mahreen Mahmud and Zunia Saif Tirmazee; funds based at Lahore School of Economics).

IGC (?39,884): Impact assessment of start up loans to female run micro-enterprises (co-PIs Azam Chaudhry, Giovanna dAdda, Naved Hamid and Mahreen Mahmud; funds based at Lahore School of Economics).

IGC (?30,000): Access to solar electricity in rural Sindh: Role of payment schedule and planning (co-PIs Jacopo Bonan, Giovanna dAdda, Mahreen Mahmud and Massimo Tavoni; funds based at Lahore School of Economics)

University of Essex (?10,000): Behavioral insights for evidence-based policy making (with Sonia Balhotra, Utteeyo Dasgupta and Joseph Vecci; funded based at the Lahore School of Economics and University of Essex).

J-PAL (GEA) ($56,787): Increasing Female employment in the Transportation Sector in Pakistan (co-PIs Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn).

IGC (?46,611): Pressures from peers and spouses and self-control problems as constraints to micro enterprise growth (co-PIs Uzma Afzal, Marcel Fafchamps and Giovanna dAdda, funds based at Lahore School of Economics).