Dr. Rabia Arif

Rabia Arif is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Lahore School and a Research fellow at the ITC. She completed her PhD at the Lahore School of Economics in 2023. and has been affiliated with esteemed institutions notably the University of Oxford, the Paris School of Economics, and Warwick. Her current research focuses on migration, trade, family studies, women's empowerment, and innovation, driven by a passion for inquiry and societal betterment.

Publications

  1. Chaudhry, T., & Arif, R. (2023). The Impact of Consanguineous Marriage on Children’s Human Capital in Pakistan. Journal of South Asian Development, 0(0).
  2. Arif R, Chaudhry A, Chaudhry T (2023) Empowered mothers and co-resident grandmothers: Two fundamental roles of women impacting child health outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan. PLOS ONE 18(11): e0285995
  3. Arif, R., Jamil, N., & Chaudhry, A. (2023). Strategic Trade Policy for Pakistan’s Textile Sector in 2018: Enhancing High Value-Added Exports through Low-Priced Intermediate Input. The Pakistan Development Review, 145-166.
  4. Arif, R., & Chaudhry, T. T. (2023). Heterogeneous Effects of Emigration on Labor Market Activity and Investment Decisions in Punjab, Pakistan. Advances in Life Course Research, 100547.
  5. Arif, R., Chaudhry, T., & Chaudhry, A. (2023). “Emigration’s Heterogeneous Impact on Children’s Wellbeing in Punjab, Pakistan.” Child Indicators Research, 1-45
  6. Tanvir, A.., Arif, R. (2023). “Measuring Mother’s Empowerment through the Culture of Son’s Preference in Pakistan.” Journal of Research & Reviews in Social Sciences Pakistan.
  7. Arif, R., & Aslam, M. (2022). “Impact of Remittances on Child Health Outcomes in Punjab, Pakistan.” Journal of Development and Social Sciences, 3(2), 916-929.
  8. Arif, R., & Khalid, M. (2022). “Determining the Extent of Gender Discrimination in Educational Attainment: A Case of Pakistan.” Pakistan Social Sciences Review, 6(2), 1041-1056.
  9. Jamil, N., & Arif, R. (2019). “Increasing Exports through Tariff Reductions on Intermediate Goods” Lahore Journal of Economics, 24(1), 29-53.
  10. *Arif, R., & Chaudhry, A. (2015), “The Effects of External Migration on Enrollments, Accumulated Schooling and Dropouts in Punjab” Applied Economics 47 (16).