Hadia Majid
Biographic Data
| ID | 346944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hadia Majid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hadia |
| FAMILY NAME | Majid |
| SIGNATURE | MAJID H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-7917-9435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital access and women's work in Pakistan
Spatializing Women's Everyday Access to Energy
The disparate distribution of energy and housing infrastructures in many megacities of the global South raises issues of equity and spatial justice, particularly for women. An intra‐urban comparison helps unpack the specific socio‐spatial characteristics of the gender–energy nexus, particularly in low‐income neighbourhoods that represent one form of peripheral urbanization. This article contributes to the limited literature on low‐income urban wo…
Price and prejudice
Productive vs. reproductive work
Unpacking rural-urban clientelist networks
Despite the importance of public goods provisioning for poverty reduction, empirical evidence shows gross under-provision of state resources in developing countries. This results in the establishment of clientelist networks between people of unequal social status. However, clientelism is not homogenous. It varies based on the environment in which it is cultivated. Using household-level data from villages and urban slums in Pakistan, we provide a …
Inclusivity, Gender, and Learning Gains
Targeting the centre and (least) poor
Using the case of Pakistan, this article explores the distribution and politics of public goods provision in urban slums. Across slums, we find that public goods are mainly provided to households located in central slums rather than those in the urban periphery. Within slums, we find politicians target spending towards wealthy households but do not go through brokers, unlike the more-studied case of India. Overall, the article shows how electoral…
Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan
This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to digital technologies to affect their economic and social lives. Our paper highlights t…
Drought, Farm Output and Heterogeneity
This article studies the impact of canal water use and communal ethnic heterogeneity on farm output during droughts. Categorizing villages where only one language is spoken as homogenous, and using a dummy variable that takes a value of one for households that use both tube-well and canal water and is zero for those that rely solely on canal water, this article performs a least squares analysis. The data are the 2001–2002 round of the Pakistan Pa…
The Effects of Growth on Women’s Employment in Pakistan
This article seeks to clarify the effect of growth on gender equality for the case of Pakistan, a country that has seen periods of high growth alongside the persistence of stark gender inequalities. The paper addresses this aim by estimating gendered sectoral employment elasticities of growth for the period 1984–2017 and investigates their drivers. It finds that the secular trend toward productivity-driven growth since the turn of the millennium …
Patronage and Public Goods Provisioning in an Unequal Land
This study explores the relationship between economic and political inequalities and access to public goods provisioning in Pakistan. We construct measures of political inequality and political patronage using voting data, and economic inequality measures using representative household data. Firstly, we find a strong concave relationship between economic inequality and access to residential supply of natural gas. Secondly, we find that the presen…
The Effects of Growth on Women’s Employment in Pakistan
This article seeks to clarify the effect of growth on gender equality for the case of Pakistan, a country that has seen periods of high growth alongside the persistence of stark gender inequalities. The paper addresses this aim by estimating gendered sectoral employment elasticities of growth for the period 1984–2017 and investigates their drivers. It finds that the secular trend toward productivity-driven growth since the turn of the millennium …
Patronage and Public Goods Provisioning in an Unequal Land
This study explores the relationship between economic and political inequalities and access to public goods provisioning in Pakistan. We construct measures of political inequality and political patronage using voting data, and economic inequality measures using representative household data. Firstly, we find a strong concave relationship between economic inequality and access to residential supply of natural gas. Secondly, we find that the presen…
Spatializing Women's Everyday Access to Energy
The disparate distribution of energy and housing infrastructures in many megacities of the global South raises issues of equity and spatial justice, particularly for women. An intra‐urban comparison helps unpack the specific socio‐spatial characteristics of the gender–energy nexus, particularly in low‐income neighbourhoods that represent one form of peripheral urbanization. This article contributes to the limited literature on low‐income urban wo…
Targeting the centre and (least) poor
Using the case of Pakistan, this article explores the distribution and politics of public goods provision in urban slums. Across slums, we find that public goods are mainly provided to households located in central slums rather than those in the urban periphery. Within slums, we find politicians target spending towards wealthy households but do not go through brokers, unlike the more-studied case of India. Overall, the article shows how electoral…
Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan
This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to digital technologies to affect their economic and social lives. Our paper highlights t…
Patronage and Public Goods Provisioning in an Unequal Land
This study explores the relationship between economic and political inequalities and access to public goods provisioning in Pakistan. We construct measures of political inequality and political patronage using voting data, and economic inequality measures using representative household data. Firstly, we find a strong concave relationship between economic inequality and access to residential supply of natural gas. Secondly, we find that the presen…
The Effects of Growth on Women’s Employment in Pakistan
This article seeks to clarify the effect of growth on gender equality for the case of Pakistan, a country that has seen periods of high growth alongside the persistence of stark gender inequalities. The paper addresses this aim by estimating gendered sectoral employment elasticities of growth for the period 1984–2017 and investigates their drivers. It finds that the secular trend toward productivity-driven growth since the turn of the millennium …
Transformative digital spaces? Investigating women’s digital mobilities in Pakistan
This paper explores the intersection of work with access to and use of digital technologies and the resulting impact on women’s empowerment. Drawing on detailed in-depth interviews across Pakistan with low-literate, low-income women employed in three categories of work – domestic, factory, and home-based – we map how women’s work intersects with their access to digital technologies to affect their economic and social lives. Our paper highlights t…
Drought, Farm Output and Heterogeneity
This article studies the impact of canal water use and communal ethnic heterogeneity on farm output during droughts. Categorizing villages where only one language is spoken as homogenous, and using a dummy variable that takes a value of one for households that use both tube-well and canal water and is zero for those that rely solely on canal water, this article performs a least squares analysis. The data are the 2001–2002 round of the Pakistan Pa…
Unpacking rural-urban clientelist networks
Despite the importance of public goods provisioning for poverty reduction, empirical evidence shows gross under-provision of state resources in developing countries. This results in the establishment of clientelist networks between people of unequal social status. However, clientelism is not homogenous. It varies based on the environment in which it is cultivated. Using household-level data from villages and urban slums in Pakistan, we provide a …
Inclusivity, Gender, and Learning Gains
Targeting the centre and (least) poor
Using the case of Pakistan, this article explores the distribution and politics of public goods provision in urban slums. Across slums, we find that public goods are mainly provided to households located in central slums rather than those in the urban periphery. Within slums, we find politicians target spending towards wealthy households but do not go through brokers, unlike the more-studied case of India. Overall, the article shows how electoral…
Digital access and women's work in Pakistan
Spatializing Women's Everyday Access to Energy
The disparate distribution of energy and housing infrastructures in many megacities of the global South raises issues of equity and spatial justice, particularly for women. An intra‐urban comparison helps unpack the specific socio‐spatial characteristics of the gender–energy nexus, particularly in low‐income neighbourhoods that represent one form of peripheral urbanization. This article contributes to the limited literature on low‐income urban wo…
Price and prejudice
Productive vs. reproductive work
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works)