Working Papers and Publications
- (new) Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics (with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Khwaja) August, 2009.
Also circulated as "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning" - (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 schools 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.