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Market for Tutors Project

Date: 2019 – ongoing  |  Funding Partner: J-Pal  |  Implementing Partner:
To inform interventions that may help expand the market for private tutoring and improve its efficacy by building on a survey of 21 private markets for tutors (15,000 households).

Impact of Social Assistance on Early Childhood Development among Ultra-Poor Households

Date: 2020 – ongoing  |  Funding Partner: 3IE, Yale University  |  Implementing Partner:
To study how children’s development in early life is impacted by alternative forms of social protection programs.

Day Labour Project

Date: 2019 – Ongoing  |  Funding Partner: International Growth Center (IGC)  |  Implementing Partner: Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL)
The project studies the existing market structures that affect day labourers in Pakistan, focusing on easing search frictions and matching costs.

Punjab Economic Opportunities Program (PEOP)

Date: 2012 – ongoing  |  Funding Partner: Government of Punjab, Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF), DFID (FCDO), British Asian Trust, Kaarvan Crafts Foundation  |  Implementing Partner:
To help alleviate poverty and vulnerability by augmenting the skills-base of low income, poor and vulnerable families through vocational training.

Job Search and Women’s Mobility Program

Date: 2014 – ongoing  |  Funding Partner: IZA, IGC, J-PAL, PEDL, NSF, ADB, DIV USAID, The Weiss Fund, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, IFPRI, PCSW and 3ie  |  Implementing Partner: The Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW), Punjab Social Welfare Department, Rozee.pk
Large-scale evaluation study of the barriers to women’s labour force participation, and how they impact jobseekers and employers in the labour market.