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Rabia Arif

Rabia Arif is an Assistant Professor,PhD in Economics at the Lahore School of Economics. 
Her detailed C.V is available.

CV

    Publications

    1. Chaudhry, T., & Arif, R. (2023). The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan. Journal of South Asian Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231200380
    2.  Arif R, Chaudhry A, Chaudhry T (2023) Empowered mothers and co-resident grandmothers: Two fundamental roles of women impacting child health outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan. PLOS ONE 18(11): e0285995. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285995
    3.  *Arif, R., Jamil, N., & Chaudhry, A. (2023). Strategic Trade Policy for Pakistan’s Textile Sector in 2018: Enhancing High Value-Added Exports through Low-Priced Intermediate Input. The Pakistan Development Review, 145-166.
    4.  *Arif, R., & Chaudhry, T. T. (2023). Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan. Advances in Life Course Research, 100547.
    5. *Arif, R., Chaudhry, T., & Chaudhry, A. (2023). “Emigration’s Heterogeneous Impact on Children’s Wellbeing in Punjab, Pakistan.” Child Indicators Research, 1-45
    6.  Tanvir, A., & *Arif, R. (2023). “Measuring Mother’s Empowerment through the Culture of Son’s Preference in Pakistan.” Journal of Research & Reviews in Social Sciences Pakistan.
    7.  *Arif, R., & Aslam, M. (2022). “Impact of Remittances on Child Health Outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences, 3(2), 916-929.
    8.  *Arif, R., & Khalid, M. (2022). “Determining the Extent of Gender Discrimination in Educational Attainment: A Case of Pakistan.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review, 6(2), 1041-1056.
    9.  Jamil, N., & Arif, R. (2019).” Increasing Exports through Tariff Reductions on Intermediate Goods” Lahore Journal of Economics, 24(1), 29-53.
    10.  *Arif, R., &Chaudhry, A. (2015), “The Effects of External Migration on Enrollments, Accumulated Schooling and Dropouts in Punjab” Applied Economics 47 (16)

     

    Forthcoming

    • Arif, R., &Chaudhry, A. (2026), “Global Value Chain (GVC) & Growth: Analyzing Participation and Positioning of Pakistan.”
    • *Arif, R., &Chaudhry, A. (2025), “Understanding how Complementarities in Innovation Affect Firm Performance: Evidence from Firms in Pakistan.”

     

    Working Papers

    1. ITC Working Paper No. 10-2024: “Fertility and Female Decision to be Self-Employed: Testing for Bidirectional Causation in Punjab, Pakistan.
    2.  ITC Working Paper No. 15-2024: “Impact of Women’s Retirement on their daughter in Law’s Employment in Pakistan”.
    3. ITC Working Paper No. 04-2023: “Understanding how complementarities in Innovation Affect Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan”.
    4.  ITC Working paper No.01-2023: “Low Priced Intermediate input and Export Boost, Proposing A strategic trade Policy to Achieve High Value-Added Exports: A case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector”.
    5. CREB Working Paper No. 03-12: “The Effects of External Migration on Enrolments, Accumulated Schooling, and Dropouts in Punjab”.
    6. MPRA Working Paper No. 90380-2018: “Proposed Methodology for Strategic Trade Policy to Achieve High Value-Added Exports: A Case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector. University Library of Munich, Germany”.
    7. CREB Working Paper No.01-22 "Measuring Mother’s Empowerment through Culture of Son Preference in Pakistan".
    8. CREB Working Paper No.04-21"Determining the Extent of Gender Discrimination in Education Sector: A case of Pakistan''.
    9. CREB Working Paper No.03-21” Impact of External Migration and Remittances on the Child’s Health in Punjab, Pakistan”.

     

    Presentations at Conferences & Seminars

    • Chair & discussant at the international conference of Applied development Economics (ADE), 2025. Session VII: Graduate Student Session, Research on Gender and Health, Lahore School of Economics.
    • Presented paper titled “Global Value Chains (GVC) & Growth: Analyzing Participation & Positioning of Pakistan”, at the 18th Annual International conference on the Management of Pakistan’s Economy held at Lahore School of Economics,2025.
    • Presented paper titled “Does Innovation & its Complementarities Benefit Exporters in Pakistan More than Non-exporters? An Analysis of Firms from the Textile, Light Engineering and Automotive Sectors”, at the 17th Annual International conference on the Management of Pakistan’s Economy held at Lahore School of Economics,2024.
    • Presented at The Ministry of Commerce Workshop titled “Low priced Intermediate Input and Export Boost,Proposing A Strategic Trade Policy to Achieve High Value-Added Exports: A Case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector” arranged by ITC, Lahore School of Economics, 2022.
    • Presented paper titled “Climbing up the Export ladder through Strategic Tariff Reductions on Intermediate Goods: A Case of Pakistan’s Textile Sector”, at The Fourteenth International conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy, Accelerating Economic Growth in Pakistan: Key Macro and Sectoral Drivers held at Lahore School of Economics, 2021.
    • Presented paper titled “Boosting Export opportunities for Pakistan: Leveraging Pakistan’s Trade Policy with Respect to China”, at the Fourteenth International conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy, Accelerating Economic Growth in Pakistan: Key Macro and Sectoral Drivers held at Lahore School of Economics, 2021.
    • Presented Paper titled “Beyond Remittances: Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan”, at The Second International Conference on Applied Development Economics held at Lahore School of Economics, 2019.
    • Presented paper titled, “Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan” at the summer school arranged by Paris School of Economics, 2018.