Farah Said
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farah Said |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farah |
| FAMILY NAME | Said |
| SIGNATURE | SAID F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8807-8782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nudging tax filing through text message combinations: Evidence from Pakistan
Developing countries, with limited monitoring and auditing capabilities, face significant tax evasion issues. This study examines the impact of various text message combinations on promoting tax compliance, particularly in encouraging service providers to submit monthly sales tax returns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A randomised controlled trial involved 18,087 service providers and tested three types of SMS reminders. These included a basic …
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we offer credit and saving contracts to the same pool of Pakistani microfinance clients. Additional treatments test ex ante demand for soft commitment (in the form of reminders, either to respondents or to their families), hard commitment (in the form of a penalty for missing an instalment) and flexibility (an option to postpone an instalment) to save or pay loan instalments on time. We find substantial dema…
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan
Pakistan has gender parity in tertiary enrollment, yet the labor force participation rate of female graduates is one-third that of male graduates. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2, 500 final-year female undergraduate students in Lahore, a large majority of whom had expressed a desire to work after graduation. We randomly selected half of the sample to watch videos of successful relatable female role models to encourage students t…
Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan
Home-Based Enterprises: Experimental Evidence on Female Preferences from Pakistan
Enterprises run by women in developing countries are largely home based and belong to small-business networks, which may explain these businesses’ small size, low profitability, and short life. Using data from Pakistan, we confirm that the majority of female-owned microenterprises are home based and find that these home businesses are likely to close within 2 years. Our incentivized tasks elicit household preferences for business location and adv…
Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan
We use a field experiment to test whether saving and borrowing satisfy demand for lump‐sum accumulation from regular deposits. Inspired by ROSCAs, we offer different credit and saving contracts to subjects. We find that individuals often accept both credit and saving contract across experimental waves. This behaviour can be rationalised by assuming that individuals seek lump‐sum payments and struggle to hold savings. Structural estimation of this…
Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan
We use a field experiment to test whether saving and borrowing satisfy demand for lump‐sum accumulation from regular deposits. Inspired by ROSCAs, we offer different credit and saving contracts to subjects. We find that individuals often accept both credit and saving contract across experimental waves. This behaviour can be rationalised by assuming that individuals seek lump‐sum payments and struggle to hold savings. Structural estimation of this…
Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan
Pakistan has gender parity in tertiary enrollment, yet the labor force participation rate of female graduates is one-third that of male graduates. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2, 500 final-year female undergraduate students in Lahore, a large majority of whom had expressed a desire to work after graduation. We randomly selected half of the sample to watch videos of successful relatable female role models to encourage students t…
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we offer credit and saving contracts to the same pool of Pakistani microfinance clients. Additional treatments test ex ante demand for soft commitment (in the form of reminders, either to respondents or to their families), hard commitment (in the form of a penalty for missing an instalment) and flexibility (an option to postpone an instalment) to save or pay loan instalments on time. We find substantial dema…
Home-Based Enterprises: Experimental Evidence on Female Preferences from Pakistan
Enterprises run by women in developing countries are largely home based and belong to small-business networks, which may explain these businesses’ small size, low profitability, and short life. Using data from Pakistan, we confirm that the majority of female-owned microenterprises are home based and find that these home businesses are likely to close within 2 years. Our incentivized tasks elicit household preferences for business location and adv…
Two Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan
We use a field experiment to test whether saving and borrowing satisfy demand for lump‐sum accumulation from regular deposits. Inspired by ROSCAs, we offer different credit and saving contracts to subjects. We find that individuals often accept both credit and saving contract across experimental waves. This behaviour can be rationalised by assuming that individuals seek lump‐sum payments and struggle to hold savings. Structural estimation of this…
Educate the girls: Long run effects of secondary schooling for girls in Pakistan
Home-Based Enterprises: Experimental Evidence on Female Preferences from Pakistan
Enterprises run by women in developing countries are largely home based and belong to small-business networks, which may explain these businesses’ small size, low profitability, and short life. Using data from Pakistan, we confirm that the majority of female-owned microenterprises are home based and find that these home businesses are likely to close within 2 years. Our incentivized tasks elicit household preferences for business location and adv…
Nudging tax filing through text message combinations: Evidence from Pakistan
Developing countries, with limited monitoring and auditing capabilities, face significant tax evasion issues. This study examines the impact of various text message combinations on promoting tax compliance, particularly in encouraging service providers to submit monthly sales tax returns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A randomised controlled trial involved 18,087 service providers and tested three types of SMS reminders. These included a basic …
Demand for Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we offer credit and saving contracts to the same pool of Pakistani microfinance clients. Additional treatments test ex ante demand for soft commitment (in the form of reminders, either to respondents or to their families), hard commitment (in the form of a penalty for missing an instalment) and flexibility (an option to postpone an instalment) to save or pay loan instalments on time. We find substantial dema…
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan
Pakistan has gender parity in tertiary enrollment, yet the labor force participation rate of female graduates is one-third that of male graduates. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2, 500 final-year female undergraduate students in Lahore, a large majority of whom had expressed a desire to work after graduation. We randomly selected half of the sample to watch videos of successful relatable female role models to encourage students t…
Economics (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)