Dr. Hadia Majid is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at LUMS. Her research agenda considers the impact of monetary and public resource constraints on individuals in Pakistan with a special focus on women’s access to decent, empowering work. She has published in international journals and is currently editing a book titled Gender at Work in Pakistan. She has received grants from several agencies including ESRC-DFID, Oxfam, IDRC, IGC, IFPRI among others and has acted as a consultant for numerous government and non-governmental agencies on gendered labor market outcomes. A Fulbright scholar, she has a PhD from The Ohio State University and MSc from University of Warwick.
Majid, H. (2018). Child Endowments and Parental Investments: Intrahousehold Allocation in Oportunidades Families in Mexico. Review of Development Economics.
Majid, H., & Memon, R. (2017). Patronage and Public Goods Provisioning in an Unequal Land. Social Indicators Research.
Majid, H. (2013). Increased Rural Connectivity and its Effects on Health Outcomes. Lahore Journal of Economics.
Majid, H., Qureshi, K., Siegmann, K. A., Zulfiqar, G. M., (Eds.). Gender at Work in Pakistan. Routledge ISS Gender and Development Series.
Majid, H. (2020). Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan. In Press, Voices on South Asia - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women s Status, Challenges and Futures. Flatt, E. J., Murali, V. S., & Tier, S. (Eds.). Springer Nature Singapore.
Hassan, F., Javaid, K., & Majid, H. (2015). Pakistan-India Bilateral Trade in Sports Goods Sector. India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations. Taneja, N., & Pohit, S. (Eds.). Springer India
Majid, H., & Mukhtar, N. (2015). Pakistan-India Trade in Services: An Analysis of the Health Sector. India-Pakistan Trade: Strengthening Economic Relations. Taneja, N., & Pohit, S. (Eds.). Springer India.
Majid, H., Household Income and Women s Work in Pakistan. Gender at Work in Pakistan. Majid, H., Qureshi, K., Siegmann, K. A., Zulfiqar, G. M., (Eds.). Routledge ISS Gender and Development Series.
Ahmad, H. F. & H. Majid, Disaggregating the effects of inequality on informal giving: Evidence from Pakistan. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Revise and Resubmit.
Majid, H. & S. Memon, The Lives and Well-being of Elderly in Pakistan: Evidence from a national survey. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Under Review
Majid, H. & Riaz, W. S., Unconditional Cash Transfers and Women s Labor Supply in Pakistan. Journal of Development Effectiveness. Under Review
Majid, H. & K. A. Siegmann. Has Growth Been Good for Women s Employment in Pakistan? Feminist Economics. Revised and Resubmitted.
"Female Status and Time-Saving Durables: Reducing Women s Triple Burden." British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK. April, 2016
"Educational Policies: Their Impact on Improving Educational Quality and Standards." Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, Lahore, Pakistan. April, 2015.
"Transforming Women s Lives? An Evaluation of the Impact of BISP on the Socio-economic Well-being of Women." Mahbub-ul-Haq Society Economics Series Lecture, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. February, 2019.
"Female Labor Supply in Pakistan: Mapping the last three decades." Forman Christian College Pakistan: The Long View, 2047 Workshop, Lahore Pakistan. December, 2016.
"Educational Policies: Their Impact on Improving Educational Quality and Standards." Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, Lahore, Pakistan. April, 2015.
"The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in Slums Preliminary results from a field study in urban Pakistan." Economics Brown Bag Seminar LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. October, 2014.
"Empowering Growth?" Economics Brown Bag Seminar LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. November, 2014.
"Awareness on the State of Education in Public Schools and Importance of School Management with Communities Participation." Sustainable Development Policy Institute Seminar, Lahore, Pakistan. March, 2013.
"Rural Connectivity and Health Outcomes." Lahore School of Economics Conference, Lahore, Pakistan. November, 2012.
"Pakistan-India Trade: An Analysis of the Health Sector." 1st Annual Conference on India-Pakistan Trade, New Delhi, India. March, 2013.
"Microeconomic Impacts of the Rapid Bus Transit: Evidence from Lahore." International Conference on Economics and Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka. June, 2017
"Mobility and Women s Labor Force Participation." Smart Policy for Women s Economic Empowerment - an Evidence for Policy Design Policy Dialogue, Kathmandu, Nepal. March, 2017.
"Transport and Urban Labor Market Integration: Evidence on Firms from A Randomized Control Trial in Pakistan." 3rd International Initiative for Impact Evaluation DPW1 Post-Award Workshop, New Delhi, India. October, 2016.
"Cash Transfers, Labor Supply and Empowerment: Evidence from Pakistan." Economics Brown Bag Series, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. October, 2019.
"Access to Public Goods." Consortium for Development Policy Research, Lahore, Pakistan. May, 2019.
"Public Goods and Urban Informal Workers Vulnerabilities." 13th Annual Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, LUMS. Lahore Pakistan. April, 2019.
"Women s Work and Household Income: Examining 25 Years of Data." Gender Identities at Work in Pakistan Workshop, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. January, 2019.
"Transforming Women s Lives: An Evaluation of the Impact of BISP on the Socio-economic Well-being of Women." The Social Economy of Gender: Addressing Challenges, Seeking Solutions. Punjab Commission on Status of Women Policy Conference, Lahore, Pakistan. November, 2018.
"The Role of Institutions in Securing Decent Work for Women." The Social Economy of Gender: Addressing Challenges, Seeking Solutions. Punjab Commission on Status of Women Policy Conference, Lahore, Pakistan. November, 2018.
"Climbing Out of Poverty: An Assessment of the Impact of BISP on Women s Outcomes in Punjab." Saida Waheed Gender Initiative Seminar Series, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. November, 2018.
"Women s Labor Supply and the Link with Growth: Examining the Last Three Decades." Center for Research in Economics and Business Seminar Series, Lahore School of Economics, Lahore, Pakistan. January, 2018
"Public Services and Urban Slums." Second Symposium on Urban Issues, Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center. Islamabad Pakistan. September, 2017.
"Women and CPEC." Women s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lahore, Pakistan. November, 2017.
"Barriers to Women s Mobility." Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund Second International Conference on Research and Learning, Islamabad, Pakistan. April, 2017.
"Who listens to the under-privileged?" The barriers and opportunities for home-based and domestic workers in Pakistan s Urban Informal Economy. International Conference on Gender Work and Society, Lahore, Pakistan. April, 2017.
"Has growth been good for women s employment in Pakistan?" International Conference on Gender Work and Society, Lahore, Pakistan. April, 2017.
"Women s Labor Supply and the Link with Growth: Examining the last three decades." Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan. March, 2017.
"Gendered Employment Responses to Pakistan s Growth." Economics Seminar, LUMS, Lahore Pakistan. December, 2016.
"Microeconomic Impacts of the Rapid Bus Transit: Evidence from Lahore." 3rd Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Policy Development, Singapore. October, 2017.
Majid, H. & Siegmann, K.A., (2017). Has growth been good for women s employment in Pakistan?. ISS Working Papers - General Series 630, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
Khan, M, H. Majid and A. Riaz, (2015). Cluster-based Industrialization and Firm Productivity in Pakistan. PSSP-IFPRI Working Paper.
Siegmann, K. A., and H. Majid, (2014). Empowering Growth in Pakistan? ISS Working Papers - General Series 595, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
Majid H. & A. Malik, (2019). "Who listens to the underprivileged?" Vulnerabilities of women workers in an urban informal economy. Mimeo. Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Majid, H., (2012). School Choice in Rural Pakistan. LUMS Economics Working Paper Series, No. 12-03.
Majid, H., A. Malik, & K. Vyborny, (2018). Infrastructure Investments and Public Transport Use: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan. IGC Working Paper C-89231-PAK-1.
Majid, H. and R. Memon, (2016). Group Inequality and Regional Development: Evidence from Pakistan. UNU-WIDER Working Paper.
Majid H. and H. Zahir, (2013). Farmer Adaptability to Climate Change: The Role of Socio-Economic Factors in Agricultural Productivity. IDRC Working Paper Series.
Shami, M. and H. Majid, (2014). The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in Slums Preliminary results from a field study in urban Pakistan. IGC Working Paper.
Majid H., (2019). Drought, Farm Output and Heterogeneity: Evidence from Pakistan. Mimeo. Lahore University of Management Sciences.