Spousal Communication & Information Sharing: Evidence from Migrants and their Spouses
Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 165 | pdf  | published 

• Spouses staying behind underreport their income when it is observable to migrants. These reporting patterns are consistent with a theory of strategic misreporting to influence migrant remittances.

How Do Taxpayers Respond to Public Disclosure and Social Recognition Programs? Evidence from Pakistan
(with Joel Slemrod and Mazhar Waseem)
The Review of Economics & Statistics, 2022, 104 (1) | NBER | pdf | published  
media: vox -eu,  live mint, vox-dev, bloomberg opinion 

• The public disclosure of tax information increases the tax paid by individuals exposed to the program.  The increase is even larger for the social recognition program.

Working Papers

The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics
(with Nick Huntingon-Klien, Claus Pörtner and others) | 2025 | SSRN 

Policy Papers

Understanding Federal Sales Tax Expenditures in Pakistan
(with Sher Afghan Asad, and Manaal Mohsin Khwaja)
IGC Report, September 2023 | pdf

• Analysis of federal sales tax expenditures in Pakistan, exploring historical trends in statutory changes and offering insights about their rationalization. 

Improving Progressivity and Efficiency: A Review of the Personal Income Tax and other Taxes on Labor in Kazakhstan
(with Wei Shei)
IMF Country Report, Republic of Kazakhstan - Selected Issues, December 2019 | pdf  

• A review of taxes on labor in Kazakhstan, which, despite the current relatively-low level of collections, have the potential to become an important source of non-oil fiscal revenue. 

In Progress