Institutional Reform And Women’s De Facto Rights In Pakistan
The project aims to conduct rigorous impact evaluation for two major initiatives designed to address challenges faced on basic legal functions and ensure women’s de facto rights in two key areas: their legal share of inheritance and key rights in marriage.
Day Labour Project
The project studies the existing market structures that affect day labourers in Pakistan, focusing on easing search frictions and matching costs.
Gender Norms and Transport Project / Transport Financing
The project seeks to provide women with motorbike training and financing as a means to improve mobility and consequently women’s labour force participation.
Social Norms Project
Investigating the extent to which educational entertainment (edutainment) that is aimed at changing social norms about child marriage and girl education changes attitudes, beliefs, norms, and behaviour with respect to child marriage and girl education in men, women, and adolescent children.
Punjab Economic Opportunities Program (PEOP)
To help alleviate poverty and vulnerability by augmenting the skills-base of low income, poor and vulnerable families through vocational training.
Job Search and Women’s Mobility Program
Large-scale evaluation study of the barriers to women’s labour force participation, and how they impact jobseekers and employers in the labour market.