#  Working Papers and Current Projects 

 



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##  Working Papers 

[Optimising SARS-Cov-2 Pooled Testing For Low-Resource Settings](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30056-2/fulltext) (with Majid, F. and Omer S.B.)

### Finance

[Bank Credit and Business Networks](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1763351) (with A. Mian, Princeton and A. Qamar, State Bank of Pakistan), WP 2011.

[Identifying Business Networks in Emerging Economies](/sites/g/files/omnuum3221/files/asimkhwaja/files/khwaja_a_-_identifying_business_networks_july_2005.pdf "khwaja_a_-_identifying_business_networks_july_2005.pdf") (with A. Mian, Princeton and A. Qamar, State Bank of Pakistan), WP 2005.

### Education

Helping Schools Survive: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial and Educational Support to Private Schools (with T. Andrabi, J. Das, and S. Ozyurt) WP 2025

[Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium](/file_url/168) (with T. Andrabi, N. Bau, and J. Das), WP 2022.

[Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19](/file_url/166) (with I. Ganguli, UMass Amherst, J. Ibrahim Haidar, S. Stemper, and B. Zafar, Harvard Kennedy School), WP 2022.

[Bad Public Schools are Public Bads: Test Scores and Civic Values in Public and Private Schools](/sites/g/files/omnuum3221/files/asimkhwaja/files/khwaja_a_-_bad_public_schools_2010-01-20.pdf "khwaja_a_-_bad_public_schools_2010-01-20.pdf") (with T. Andrabi, N. Bau, and J. Das), WP 2010

### Institutions

[Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Constraints faced by Women in Accessing Valuable Skilling Opportunities](/file_url/171) (with A. Cheema, F. Naseer, and J. Shapiro). WP, February 2025, Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Political Economy.

[Skills, Return to Household, and Poverty Reduction.](http://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cheema-Khwaja-2010-Working-Paper.pdf) (with Ali Cheema), WP 2010.



 

##  Current Projects 

### Finance

Financing for Firms: Experimental Innovations in South Africa (with B. Klinger, Harvard University)

Divided We Fall: Understanding Retail Clusters (with J. Das, DECRG World Bank, and A. Mian, U of Chicago, GSB)

### Education

How Effective are Parent-Teacher School Councils? Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country (with T. Andrabi, Pomona, and J.Das, DECRG World Bank)

Information and Choices: Examining Parental Investments Across Children (with T. Andrabi, Pomona, J.Das, DECRG World Bank, and J. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Skills, Beliefs, and Development: Examining skill-enhancing interventions in Pakistan (with A. Cheema, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), F. Naseer, LUMS, and Jacob Shapiro, Princeton)

### Institutions

Rebuilding the Social Compact: Urban Service Delivery and Property Taxes in Pakistan (with A. Khan, M. Shaukat and B. Olken).

The Big March: Consequences of the 1947 Partition of India (with A. Mian, U of Chicago, GSB)

Identifying the Impact of Decentralization: Evidence from Pakistan (with A. Cheema, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and A. Qadir, Pakistan Administrative Staff College)