Mahvish Shaukat is a Principal Investigator on Social Compact: Urban Services and Taxes at CERP. Dr Mahvish is an Economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth Team in the Development Research Group. Her research studies issues in Governance, Political Economy, and Public Finance, with the goal of understanding how institutions and incentives shape state efficacy and citizen welfare. Dr Mahvish received her PhD in Economics from MIT in 2019.