I am a job market candidate with a PhD in Public Policy from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management. I also serve as a Development Policy Expert (STC) at ImpactAI, the World Bank.
My research interests include the political economy of conflict, development, and state capacity building. My dissertation focuses on the causes and consequences of conflict and terrorism. In my job market paper, I evaluate the impact of the death of Osama bin Laden on terrorism and education in Pakistan. This paper is published in Labour Economics and can be found in research tab.
The second stream of my research is the spillovers of state capacity building. Specifically, I examine the impact of land record digitization on land-related disputes. This paper is published in Land Use Policy. My ongoing research in this stream examines the impact of land record digitization on corruption, land use, and access to agricultural credit.
My role at ImpactAI, the World Bank, is to read, annotate, and curate development RCTs and to prepare data for an AI model to generate evidence. This includes automating standardizing effect sizes using Cohen's d and Hedges' g methods to make them comparable across papers and to generate summaries using generative AI models. This is an ongoing project, and more details can be found in the ImpactAI tab.
