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Rabia Arif

Dr. Rabia Arif is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Lahore School and a Research Fellow at the ITC. She completed her PhD at the Lahore School of Economics in 2023. and has been affiliated with esteemed institutions, notably the University of Oxford, the Paris School of Economics, and the University of Warwick. Her current research focuses on migration, trade, family studies, women's empowerment, and innovation, driven by a passion for inquiry and societal betterment.

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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).

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 the 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

  1. Chair & discussant at the Seventh International Conference of Applied Development Economics (ADE, 7), 2025. Session VII: Graduate Student Session, Research on Gender and Health, Lahore School of Economics.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.