Mahreen Mahmud
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahreen Mahmud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahreen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahmud |
| SIGNATURE | MAHMUD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4462-6841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force
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…
Home-Based Enterprises
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…
Repaying Microcredit Loans
This paper utilises a natural experiment – the shift from individual to joint lending by a microfinance organisation in Pakistan – to show significant improvement in borrower discipline under joint liability loans. I find that a possible mechanism for this impact is the degree of pre-existing social connection between the group members. For the mechanism analysis, I use the exogenous variation in the number of months borrowers had till the expiry…
Household response to an extreme shock
Volatility Dynamics in an Emerging Economy
The paper aims to model and forecast the volatility in the stocks traded at the Karachi Stock Exchange before and during the recent financial crisis using the GARCH, EGARCH and GJR-GARCH models. We find the stock return volatility to be characterized by clustering and displaying asymmetries. Results point to the capability of the EGARCH(1,1) model at forecasting for both periods lending support to the use of GARCH family of models for emerging ma…
Household response to an extreme shock
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force
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…
Home-Based Enterprises
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…
Volatility Dynamics in an Emerging Economy
The paper aims to model and forecast the volatility in the stocks traded at the Karachi Stock Exchange before and during the recent financial crisis using the GARCH, EGARCH and GJR-GARCH models. We find the stock return volatility to be characterized by clustering and displaying asymmetries. Results point to the capability of the EGARCH(1,1) model at forecasting for both periods lending support to the use of GARCH family of models for emerging ma…
Repaying Microcredit Loans
This paper utilises a natural experiment – the shift from individual to joint lending by a microfinance organisation in Pakistan – to show significant improvement in borrower discipline under joint liability loans. I find that a possible mechanism for this impact is the degree of pre-existing social connection between the group members. For the mechanism analysis, I use the exogenous variation in the number of months borrowers had till the expiry…
Household response to an extreme shock
Home-Based Enterprises
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…
Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force
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 (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (2 works)