Farah Said
@farahsaid.bsky.social
Development Economist in Pakistan, studying financial inclusion, labor market participation, and gender.
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/farahziasaid/
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/farahziasaid/
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Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
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November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @farahsaid.bsky.social, Sonia Bhalotra, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming introduce and validate a novel approach to measuring management skills. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @farahsaid.bsky.social, Sonia Bhalotra, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming introduce and validate a novel approach to measuring management skills. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
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Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
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This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
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Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.
paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
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Call for two Stephan Klasen Fellowships at the University of Göttingen,
for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries.
Applications close 16th November 2025.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html
for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries.
Applications close 16th November 2025.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Call for two Stephan Klasen Fellowships at the University of Göttingen,
for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries.
Applications close 16th November 2025.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html
for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries.
Applications close 16th November 2025.
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html
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An underrated reason for the persistence of cousin marriages: high fertility maintains a large supply of cousins. Could (help) explain why Pakistan’s first-cousin marriage rate is 50%!!! versus India and Bangladesh <10%.
September 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
An underrated reason for the persistence of cousin marriages: high fertility maintains a large supply of cousins. Could (help) explain why Pakistan’s first-cousin marriage rate is 50%!!! versus India and Bangladesh <10%.
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Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September?
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September?
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
@voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n
BREAD, G²LM|LIC comes to Lahore this Sept in collaboration with Pathways to Development (path2dev.org)!
Apply to join us at LUMS to share your work, with dedicated mentoring for PhD students & junior researchers in South Asia, plus sessions with policymakers. Details below.
#EconSky #EconConf
Apply to join us at LUMS to share your work, with dedicated mentoring for PhD students & junior researchers in South Asia, plus sessions with policymakers. Details below.
#EconSky #EconConf
📢Call for Papers: Joint @g2lmlic.bsky.social
/BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13
Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows
Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...
/BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13
Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows
Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
BREAD, G²LM|LIC comes to Lahore this Sept in collaboration with Pathways to Development (path2dev.org)!
Apply to join us at LUMS to share your work, with dedicated mentoring for PhD students & junior researchers in South Asia, plus sessions with policymakers. Details below.
#EconSky #EconConf
Apply to join us at LUMS to share your work, with dedicated mentoring for PhD students & junior researchers in South Asia, plus sessions with policymakers. Details below.
#EconSky #EconConf
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🆕 What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer?
Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...
Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...
What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer?
Research shows that microfinance clients use credit and savings as commitment devices to accumulate lump sums. Evidence from Pakistan suggests high demand for fixed-repayment contracts, but low demand...
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March 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🆕 What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer?
Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...
Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...