#ABCDE2024

Excited to have my advisor in Pakistan for the first time! 🌍 Took her on a cultural shopping spree to get some stunning Pakistani outfits Adrienne Lucas

1) @_SarahShaukat (Tufts University) and Attique Ur Rehman (Univ. of Delaware) use the FATF grey-listing of Pakistan and the subsequent deregistration of NGOs across tehsils in Punjab as a natural experiment to estimate whether NGOs are effective in improving development outcomes.

Pro tip for Stata users: When calculating averages with romean(), always use egen double varname instead of just egen varname. Skipping double option can lead to incorrect averages due to precision loss. #Stata

#NEUDC2024 #Session3 Non-State Actors chaired by Vijayendra Rao Sarah Shaukat finds that NGO presence boosts education, healthcare, and stability in Pakistan, especially for women; closures lead to declines in these key areas.

Honored to receive the Weiss Distinguished PhD Research Paper Award at #NEUDC2024 with Attique Ur Rehman for my job market paper, "Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan"

Sarah Shaukat Attique Ur Rehman congratulations Sarah Shaukat! well deserved, its a great paper!

Huge congratulations, Sarah Shaukat! Find Sarah's paper (and her other great work) here: sites.google.com/view/sarahshau…

Sarah Shaukat and I are recruiting for a full-time Research Associate position at CDPR . We seek a candidate with expertise in RCTs, strong #Stata skills, familiarity with ChatGPT and excellent communication and managerial abilities.

🚨Excited to share my #JMP! "Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan" NGOs often fill gaps left by limited public spending on health, education, etc.📚🏥But do NGOs truly move the needle on development? Let’s dive in!👇 🧵[/10] 🔗dropbox.com/scl/fi/pe7ozsn…

Exciting JMC this year #econtwitter !

This is a fabulous paper! tl;dr NGOs do have meaningful positive effects on human capital outcomes; de-listing them in Pakistan significantly worsens local health, economic + welfare outcomes

My excellent student Sarah Shaukat is on the job market! Check out her great JMP: "Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan"!

Meet Sarah Shaukat (Sarah Shaukat), a PhD candidate at Tufts University! Her JMP is titled “Do Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan”. Her research interests are development, labor & gender economics. Website:sites.google.com/view/sarahshau…

Check out today's post on Development Impact by Sarah Shaukat (Sarah Shaukat), an econ job market candidate from Tufts. Using data from Pakistan, her JMP shows that NGOs positively influence development outcomes. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

👏🏻 Special announcement: We're introducing this year’s SurveyCTO Primary Data Collection Research Grant winners! Learn about this year’s grant recipients and their research projects on the blog: ow.ly/AmxC50V7m7P

Thankful for the support from SurveyCTO for my research!

What are businesses around the world experiencing? At the World Bank #EnterpriseSurveys Symposium, we will share data insights from 61,000+ firms in 103 economies. 🗓 June 5 | 9:30–11AM ET 📍IFC HQ + Livestream Sign up: wrld.bg/XMxa50W1WtG