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Saad Gulzar

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Affiliation

(50%) Department of Economics
University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (United States)
http://economics.nd.edu/
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(50%) Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (United States)
https://keough.nd.edu
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Research output

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Working papers

  1. Gulzar, Saad & Ladino, Juan Felipe & Mehmood, Muhammad Zia & Rogger, Daniel, 2025. "Command and Can’t Control : Assessing Centralized Accountability in the Public Sector," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11200, The World Bank.
  2. Callen, Mike & Gulzar, Saad & Rezaee, Arman & Shapiro, Jacob N., 2024. "Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's frontier crimes regulation," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123677, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  3. Gulzar, Saad & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2023. ""Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance," IZA Discussion Papers 16176, IZA Network @ LISER.
  4. Callen, Mike & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2020. "Data and policy decisions: experimental evidence from Pakistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105584, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  5. Bursztyn, Leonardo & Callen, Mike & Ferman, Bruno & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Yuchtman, Noam, 2020. "Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 101465, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  6. Gulzar, Saad & Rueda, Miguel R. & Ruiz, Nelson A., 2019. "Kickbacks and limits on campaign donations," Research Department working papers 1429, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
  7. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2016. "The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 11321, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  8. Callen, Michael & Bursztyn, Leonardo & Ferman, Bruno & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Yuchtman, Noam, 2016. "Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 11106, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  9. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2015. "Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan," Working Paper Series rwp15-023, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Articles

  1. Saad Gulzar & Muhammad Yasir Khan, 2025. "Good Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 92(1), pages 339-364.
  2. Gulzar, Saad & Pathak, Durgesh & Thompson, Sarah & Tóth, Aliz, 2025. "Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 119(2), pages 812-831, May.
  3. Michael Callen & Saad Gulzar & Ali Hasanain & Muhammad Yasir Khan & Arman Rezaee, 2025. "Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 73(3), pages 1439-1474.
  4. Gulzar, Saad & Lal, Apoorva & Pasquale, Benjamin, 2024. "Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 118(2), pages 764-783, May.
  5. Michael Callen & Saad Gulzar & Arman Rezaee & Jacob N. Shapiro, 2024. "Extending the formal state: the case of Pakistan's Frontier Crimes Regulation," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 91(363), pages 701-718, July.
  6. Gemma Dipoppa & Saad Gulzar, 2024. "Bureaucrat incentives reduce crop burning and child mortality in South Asia," Nature, Nature, vol. 634(8036), pages 1125-1131, October.
  7. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2023. "The political economy of public sector absence," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
  8. Leonardo Bursztyn & Michael Callen & Bruno Ferman & Saad Gulzar & Ali Hasanain & Noam Yuchtman, 2020. "Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan [Economics And Identity]," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 18(5), pages 2532-2560.
  9. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2020. "Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
  10. Gulzar, Saad & Haas, Nicholas & Pasquale, Benjamin, 2020. "Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 114(4), pages 1230-1246, November.
  11. Gulzar, Saad & Pasquale, Benjamin J., 2017. "Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Development: Evidence from India," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 111(1), pages 162-183, February.
  12. Michael Callen & Saad Gulzar & Ali Hasanain & Abdul Rehman Khan & Yasir Khan & Muhammad Zia Mehmood, 2013. "Improving Public Health Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan: Issues and Opportunities," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 18(Special E), pages 249-269, September.

Chapters

  1. Saad Gulzar & Nicholas Haas & Benjamin Pasquale, 2023. "Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas," Springer Books, in: Ashwini Deshpande (ed.), Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, chapter 32, pages 729-759, Springer.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Gulzar, Saad & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2023. ""Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance," IZA Discussion Papers 16176, IZA Network @ LISER.

    Cited by:

    1. Mehmood, Sultan & Naseer, Shaheen & Chen, Daniel L., 2024. "Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).
    2. Ivo Steimanis & Esther Blanco & Björn Vollan, 2024. "Conditional Payments for Democracy to Local Leaders Managing Natural Resources in Rural Namibia," Working Papers 2024-03, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck.
    3. Brock, J. Michelle, 2025. "Professional motivation and the quantity–quality trade-off," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(3), pages 754-771.
    4. Mansuri, Ghazala & Palaniswamy, Nethra & Rao, Vijayendra & Shrestha, Slesh A., 2023. "Money versus Kudos: The impact of incentivizing local politicians in India," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 224(C).

  2. Callen, Mike & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2020. "Data and policy decisions: experimental evidence from Pakistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105584, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Kalaj, Jozefina & Rogger, Daniel & Somani, Ravi, 2022. "Bureaucrat time-use: Evidence from a survey experiment," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    2. Andrew Dustan & Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte & Stanislao Maldonado, 2018. "Motivating bureaucrats with non-monetary incentives when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale," Natural Field Experiments 00664, The Field Experiments Website.
    3. Shuguang Jiang & Marie Claire Villeval, 2022. "Dishonesty in Developing Countries -What Can We Learn From Experiments?," Working Papers hal-03899654, HAL.
    4. Sultan Mehmood, 2020. "Judicial Independence and Development: Evidence from Pakistan," Working Papers halshs-03054106, HAL.
    5. Yuehao Bai & Meng Hsuan Hsieh & Jizhou Liu & Max Tabord-Meehan, 2022. "Revisiting the Analysis of Matched-Pair and Stratified Experiments in the Presence of Attrition," Papers 2209.11840, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2023.
    6. Callen, Mike & Gulzarz, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaeek, Arman, 2023. "The political economy of public sector absence," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117390, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Sultan Mehmood, 2021. "The impact of Presidential appointment of judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?," AMSE Working Papers 2118, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
    8. Harris, Donna & Borcan, Oana & Serra, Danila & Telli, Henry & Schettini, Bruno & Dercon, Stefan, 2024. "Proud to Belong: The Impact of Ethics Training on Police Officers in Ghana," IZA Discussion Papers 17006, IZA Network @ LISER.
    9. Karthik Muralidharan & Paul Niehaus & Sandip Sukhtankar & Jeffrey Weaver, 2018. "Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery using Phone-Based Monitoring," NBER Working Papers 25298, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. World Bank, 2024. "Determinants of Health Worker Performance," World Bank Publications - Reports 41760, The World Bank Group.
    11. Donna Harris & Oana Borcan & Danila Serra & Henry Telli & Bruno Schettini & Stefan Dercon, 2022. "Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police officers," CSAE Working Paper Series 2022-05, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    12. Ernesto Dal Bó & Frederico Finan & Nicholas Y. Li & Laura Schechter, 2021. "Information Technology and Government Decentralization: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 89(2), pages 677-701, March.
    13. Andrew Dustan & Stanislao Maldonado & Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte, 2018. "Motivating bureaucrats with non-monetary incentives when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru," Working Papers 136, Peruvian Economic Association.
    14. Gallegos, Sebastian & Roseth, Benjamin & Cuesta, Ana & Sánchez, Mario, 2023. "Increasing the take-up of public health services: An at-scale experiment on digital government," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 227(C).
    15. Sultan Mehmood, 2021. "The impact of Presidential appointment of judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists?," Working Papers halshs-03161933, HAL.
    16. Gulzar, Saad & Ladino, Juan Felipe & Mehmood, Muhammad Zia & Rogger, Daniel, 2025. "Command and Can’t Control : Assessing Centralized Accountability in the Public Sector," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11200, The World Bank.
    17. Sultan Mehmood, 2020. "Judicial Independence and Development: Evidence from Pakistan," AMSE Working Papers 2041, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France.
    18. Nayyar, Gaurav & Pleninger, Regina & Vorisek, Dana & Yu, Shu, 2024. "Digitalization and Inclusive Growth : A Review of the Evidence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10941, The World Bank.
    19. Eric Rougier & François Combarnous & Yves-André Fauré, 2022. "Political turnover, public employment, and local economic development: New empirical evidence on the impact of local political dynasties in the Brazilian “Nordeste”," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(4), pages 2069-2097, August.
    20. Sultan Mehmood & Bakhtawar Ali, 2024. "Judicial Capture," Post-Print hal-04525999, HAL.
    21. Yuehao Bai & Meng Hsuan Hsieh & Jizhou Liu & Max Tabord‐Meehan, 2024. "Revisiting the analysis of matched‐pair and stratified experiments in the presence of attrition," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 39(2), pages 256-268, March.

  3. Bursztyn, Leonardo & Callen, Mike & Ferman, Bruno & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Yuchtman, Noam, 2020. "Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 101465, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    Cited by:

    1. Alabrese, Eleonora & Capozza, Francesco & Garg, Prashant, 2024. "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 735, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    2. Suanna Oh, 2021. "Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?," CESifo Working Paper Series 9487, CESifo.
    3. Nicolás Ajzenman & Bruno Ferman & Pedro C. Sant’Anna, 2023. "Rooting for the Same Team: On the Interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties," Working Papers 231, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    4. Gaia Dossi & Marta Morando, 2023. "Political ideology and innovation," CEP Discussion Papers dp1969, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    5. Adam Osman & Jamin D. Speer, 2024. "Stigma and take‐up of labour market assistance: Evidence from two field experiments," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 91(361), pages 123-141, January.
    6. Muñoz, Manuel, 2024. "Identity change and economic mobility: Experimental evidence," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 493-509.
    7. Roberto A. Weber & Sili Zhang, 2023. "What Money Can Buy: How Market Exchange Promotes Values," CESifo Working Paper Series 10809, CESifo.
    8. Vicente, Pedro C. & Vilela, Inês, 2022. "Preventing Islamic radicalization: Experimental evidence on anti-social behavior," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 474-485.
    9. Michael Thaler, 2025. "The Supply of Motivated Beliefs," CESifo Working Paper Series 11828, CESifo.

  4. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2016. "The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 11321, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Jacobus, Cilliers & Ibrahim, Kasirye & Clare, Leaver & Pieter, Serneels & Andrew, Zeitlink, 2016. "Pay For Locally Monitored Performance- A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools," Occasional Papers 244098, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
    2. Sylvain Chassang & Gerard Padró i Miquel, 2014. "Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistle-blowing: a Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports," NBER Working Papers 20315, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Meeks, Robyn C. & Omuraliev, Arstan & Isaev, Ruslan & Wang, Zhenxuan, 2023. "Impacts of electricity quality improvements: Experimental evidence on infrastructure investments," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
    4. Enikolopov, Ruben, 2018. "Are Bureaucrats Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?," CEPR Discussion Papers 13051, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    5. Sylvain Chassang & Gerard Padro i Miquel, 2014. "Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports," Working Papers 062-2014, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Econometric Research Program..
    6. Dhaliwal, Iqbal & Hanna, Rema, 2017. "The devil is in the details: The successes and limitations of bureaucratic reform in India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 1-21.
    7. Hasanain, Syed Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2023. "No bulls: Experimental evidence on the impact of veterinarian ratings in Pakistan," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    8. Thomas Bossuroy & Clara Delavallade & Vincent Pons, 2019. "Biometric Tracking, Healthcare Provision, and Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control," NBER Working Papers 26388, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Muhammad Haseeb & Kate Vyborny, 2016. "Imposing institutions: Evidence from cash transfer reform in Pakistan," CSAE Working Paper Series 2016-36, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    10. Bertrand, Marianne & Burgess, Robin & Chawla, Arunish & Xu, Guo, 2020. "The glittering prizes: career incentives and bureaucrat performance," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100808, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. Chicoine, Luke & Guzman, Juan Carlos, 2016. "Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda," IZA Discussion Papers 10228, IZA Network @ LISER.
    12. Friedman, Willa, 2018. "Corruption and averting AIDS deaths," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 13-25.
    13. De La O, Ana L. & González, Lucas I. & Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca, 2023. "Voluntary audits: Experimental evidence on a new approach to monitoring front-line bureaucrats," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
    14. Zubair K. Bhatti & Jody Zall Kusek & Tony Verheijen, 2015. "Logged On : Smart Government Solutions from South Asia," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 20487, April.

  5. Callen, Michael & Bursztyn, Leonardo & Ferman, Bruno & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Yuchtman, Noam, 2016. "Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 11106, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Ruixue Jia & Torsten Persson, 2019. "Individual vs. Social Motives in Identity Choice: Theory and Evidence from China," NBER Working Papers 26008, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Florian Hett & Markus Kröll & Mario Mechtel, 2019. "Choosing Who You Are: The Structure and Behavioral Effects of Revealed Identification Preferences," Working Papers 1903, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
    3. Hett, Florian & Kröll, Markus & Mechtel, Mario, 2017. "Choosing Who You Are: The Structure and Behavioral Effects of Revealed Identification Preferences," VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking 168223, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    4. Štěpán Jurajda & Dejan Kovač, 2021. "Names and behavior in a war," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 34(1), pages 1-33, January.
    5. Julio J. Elias & Nicola Lacetera & Mario Macis, 2016. "Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment," NBER Working Papers 22632, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Lennon, Conor & Teltser, Keith F. & Fernandez, Jose & Gohmann, Stephan, 2023. "How morality and efficiency shape public support for minimum wages," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 205(C), pages 618-637.

  6. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2015. "Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan," Working Paper Series rwp15-023, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.

    Cited by:

    1. Butschek, Sebastian & González Amor, Roberto & Kampkötter, Patrick & Sliwka, Dirk, 2019. "Paying Gig Workers – Evidence from a Field Experiment," IZA Discussion Papers 12667, IZA Network @ LISER.
    2. Trivitt, Julie & Cheng, Albert, 2016. "When you say nothing at all: The predictive power of student effort on surveysAuthor-Name: Hitt, Collin," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 105-119.
    3. Berry, James & Mehta, Saurabh & Mukherjee, Priya & Ruebeck, Hannah & Shastry, Gauri Kartini, 2021. "Crowd-out in school-based health interventions: Evidence from India’s midday meals program," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    4. Federico A. Bugni & Ivan A. Canay & Azeem M. Shaikh, 2017. "Inference under covariate-adaptive randomization," CeMMAP working papers 25/17, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    5. Max Tabord-Meehan, 2018. "Stratification Trees for Adaptive Randomization in Randomized Controlled Trials," Papers 1806.05127, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2022.
    6. Manoj Mohanan & Katherine Donato & Grant Miller & Yulya Truskinovsky & Marcos Vera-Hernández, 2019. "Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills," NBER Working Papers 25499, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Federico A. Bugni & Ivan A. Canay & Azeem M. Shaikh, 2017. "Inference under covariate-adaptive randomization with multiple treatments," CeMMAP working papers CWP34/17, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    8. Prakash, Nishith & Rockmore, Marc & Uppal, Yogesh, 2019. "Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    9. Zanoni, Wladimir & Fabregas, Raissa, 2024. "The Migrant Penalty in Latin America: Experimental Evidence from Job Recruiters," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 13804, Inter-American Development Bank.
    10. Macours, Karen & Laajaj, Rachid, 2018. "Measuring Skills in Developing Countries," CEPR Discussion Papers 13271, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    11. James Habyarimana & Stuti Khemani & Thiago Scot, 2023. "The importance of political selection for bureaucratic effectiveness," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 90(359), pages 746-779, July.
    12. Donald,Aletheia Amalia & Goldstein,Markus P. & Rouanet,Lea Marie, 2022. "Two Heads Are Better Than One : Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10047, The World Bank.
    13. Owoo, Nkechi S. & Amankwah, Akuffo & Castaing, Pauline & Palacios-Lopez, Amparo, 2024. "Household Business Performance in Ghana : The Role of Personality Traits and Gender Role Attitudes," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10804, The World Bank.
    14. Eilermann, Kerstin & Halstenberg, Katrin & Kuntz, Ludwig & Martakis, Kyriakos & Roth, Bernhard & Wiesen, Daniel, 2019. "The Effect of Expert Feedback on Antibiotic Prescribing in Pediatrics: Experimental Evidence," HERO Online Working Paper Series 2020:1, University of Oslo, Health Economics Research Programme.
    15. Frederico Finan & Benjamin A. Olken & Rohini Pande, 2015. "The Personnel Economics of the State," NBER Working Papers 21825, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    16. Hasanain, Syed Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2023. "No bulls: Experimental evidence on the impact of veterinarian ratings in Pakistan," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    17. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2016. "The Political Economy of Public Sector Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 11321, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    18. Kerstin Eilermann & Katrin Halstenberg & Ludwig Kuntz & Kyriakos Martakis & Bernhard Roth & Daniel Wiesen, 2019. "The Effect of Expert Feedback on Antibiotic Prescribing in Pediatrics: Experimental Evidence," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 39(7), pages 781-795, October.
    19. Bertrand, Marianne & Burgess, Robin & Chawla, Arunish & Xu, Guo, 2020. "The glittering prizes: career incentives and bureaucrat performance," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100808, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    20. Kong, Dongmin & Liu, Chenhao, 2024. "Centralization and regulatory enforcement: Evidence from personnel authority reform in China," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 229(C).

Articles

  1. Saad Gulzar & Muhammad Yasir Khan, 2025. "Good Politicians: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 92(1), pages 339-364.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Michael Callen & Saad Gulzar & Ali Hasanain & Muhammad Yasir Khan & Arman Rezaee, 2025. "Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 73(3), pages 1439-1474.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Gemma Dipoppa & Saad Gulzar, 2024. "Bureaucrat incentives reduce crop burning and child mortality in South Asia," Nature, Nature, vol. 634(8036), pages 1125-1131, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Batabyal, Amitrajeet & Beladi, Hamid, 2025. "An Analysis of Agricultural Crop Residue Burning and Urban Air Pollution in New Delhi, India," MPRA Paper 125945, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 19 Aug 2025.
    2. Dominik Naeher & Virginia Ziulu, 2025. "Does Adoption of Zero Tillage Reduce Crop Residue Burning? Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing and Household Survey Data in India," Papers 2510.01351, arXiv.org.

  4. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2023. "The political economy of public sector absence," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Leopoldo Fergusson & Arturo Harker & Carlos Molina & Juan Camilo Yamín, 2023. "Birds of a Feather Collude Together: Subnational Alignment and Corruption," Documentos CEDE 20732, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
    2. Brugués, Felipe & Brugués, Javier & Giambra, Samuele, 2024. "Political connections and misallocation of procurement contracts: Evidence from Ecuador," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 170(C).
    3. Tandel, Vaidehi & Gandhi, Sahil & Tabarrok, Alex, 2023. "Building networks: Investigating the quid pro quo between local politicians & developers," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
    4. Alex Armand & Frederica Mendonca & Wayne Aaron Sandholtz & Pedro C. Vicente, 2025. "On the political economy of urbanization: experimental evidence from Mozambique," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp670, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.
    5. Bhattacharjee, Shampa & Roy Chaudhuri, Arka, 2024. "Electoral quotas and developmental outcomes: Evidence from India," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    6. Alex Armand & Frederica Mendonca & Wayne Aaron Sandholtz & Pedro C. Vicente, 2024. "On the political economy of urbanization: experimental evidence from Mozambique," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp2403, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.

  5. Leonardo Bursztyn & Michael Callen & Bruno Ferman & Saad Gulzar & Ali Hasanain & Noam Yuchtman, 2020. "Political Identity: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan [Economics And Identity]," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 18(5), pages 2532-2560.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  6. Callen, Michael & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2020. "Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    See citations under working paper version above.
  7. Gulzar, Saad & Haas, Nicholas & Pasquale, Benjamin, 2020. "Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 114(4), pages 1230-1246, November.

    Cited by:

    1. Sugat Chaturvedi & Sabyasachi & Kanika Mahajan, 2021. "The Importance of being Earnest: What Explains the Gender Quota Effect in Politics?," Working Papers 52, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
    2. Rachel M. Gisselquist & Min Jung Kim & Simone Schotte & Chinmayi Srikanth, 2024. "Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset (update)," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-48, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Bhattacharjee, Shampa & Roy Chaudhuri, Arka, 2024. "Electoral quotas and developmental outcomes: Evidence from India," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    4. Simone Schotte & Tharcisio Leone & Rachel M. Gisselquist, 2023. "The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States: A systematic literature review," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-15, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    5. Das, Sabyasachi & Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop & Saroy, Rajas, 2023. "Does affirmative action in politics hinder performance? Evidence from India," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 214(C), pages 370-405.
    6. Gulzar, Saad & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2023. ""Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance," IZA Discussion Papers 16176, IZA Network @ LISER.
    7. Astghik Mavisakalyan & Yashar Tarverdi, 2023. "Identity and support for policies towards Indigenous people: evidence from Australia," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 167(1), pages 535-570, June.
    8. Kumar, Himangshu, 2020. "Hearts and Minds: What explains the intensity of insurgent violence in India’s NER?," MPRA Paper 103778, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Narayan Chandra Nayak & Bimal Kishore Sahoo & Mamata Jenamani & Alok Ranjan Mohanty & Runa Sen Chatterjee, 2021. "Does Convergence of Rural Development Schemes Improve Household Welfare? An Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Odisha, India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 64(4), pages 1023-1042, December.

  8. Gulzar, Saad & Pasquale, Benjamin J., 2017. "Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Development: Evidence from India," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 111(1), pages 162-183, February.

    Cited by:

    1. Kalaj, Jozefina & Rogger, Daniel & Somani, Ravi, 2022. "Bureaucrat time-use: Evidence from a survey experiment," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    2. Antoine Zerbini & Esteban Muñoz-Sobrado & Federica Braccioli & Amedeo Piolatto, 2024. "The Taxing Challenges of the State: Unveiling the Role of Fiscal & Administrative Capacity in Development," Working Papers 1432, Barcelona School of Economics.
    3. Das, Upasak & Maiorano, Diego, 2019. "Post-clientelistic initiatives in a patronage democracy: The distributive politics of India’s MGNREGA," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 239-252.
    4. Alkon, Meir, 2018. "Do special economic zones induce developmental spillovers? Evidence from India’s states," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 396-409.
    5. Kjelsrud, Anders & Sjurgard, Kristin Vikan, 2020. "Public work and private violence," Memorandum 1/2020, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
    6. M. Rodwan Abouharb & David Cingranelli & Mikhail Filippov, 2019. "Too Many Cooks: Multiple International Principals Can Spoil the Quality of Governance," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(5), pages 1-22, May.
    7. Indrajit Roy, 2019. "Class Politics and Social Protection: A Comparative Analysis of Local Governments in India," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 14(2), pages 121-150, August.
    8. Marcesse, Thibaud, 2018. "Public Policy Reform and Informal Institutions: The Political Articulation of the Demand for Work in Rural India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 284-296.
    9. Klonner, Stefan & Oldiges, Christian, 2022. "The welfare effects of India’s rural employment guarantee," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
    10. Callen, Mike & Gulzarz, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaeek, Arman, 2023. "The political economy of public sector absence," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117390, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    11. Stommes, Drew & Aronow, P. M. & Sävje, Fredrik, 2023. "On the Reliability of Published Findings Using the Regression Discontinuity Design in Political Science," I4R Discussion Paper Series 22, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    12. Kukreja, Rolly, 2024. "The political economy of education: Politician criminality and higher education institutions," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    13. William Ascher, 2021. "Coping with intelligence deficits in poverty-alleviation policies in low-income countries," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 54(2), pages 345-370, June.
    14. Sarah Brierley, 2020. "Unprincipled Principals: Co‐opted Bureaucrats and Corruption in Ghana," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(2), pages 209-222, April.
    15. Kalliyil, Muneer & Sahoo, Soham, 2024. "The Political Economy of Privatization of Education: Role of Local Politicians in India," IZA Discussion Papers 17527, IZA Network @ LISER.
    16. Agnihotri, Anustubh, 2022. "Transfer preferences of bureaucrats and spatial disparities in local state presence," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    17. Callen, Mike & Gulzar, Saad & Hasanain, Ali & Khan, Muhammad Yasir & Rezaee, Arman, 2020. "Data and policy decisions: experimental evidence from Pakistan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105584, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    18. Danielle Resnick, 2022. "Does Accountability Undermine Service Delivery? The Impact of Devolving Agriculture in Ghana," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(2), pages 1003-1029, April.
    19. Chitra Jogani, 2022. "Effect of Political Quotas on Attributes of Political Candidates and Provision of Public Goods," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 48(2), pages 267-316, April.
    20. Callen, Michael, 2020. "Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan," CEPR Discussion Papers 15169, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    21. Jain, Chandan & Kashyap, Shagun & Lahoti, Rahul & Sahoo, Soham, 2023. "The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 1068-1093.
    22. Rikhil R. Bhavnani & Alexander Lee, 2021. "Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(1), pages 5-20, January.
    23. Chaudhary, Latika & Iyer, Lakshmi, 2024. "The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development," IZA Discussion Papers 17053, IZA Network @ LISER.
    24. Bertrand, Marianne & Burgess, Robin & Chawla, Arunish & Xu, Guo, 2020. "The glittering prizes: career incentives and bureaucrat performance," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100808, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    25. Dasgupta, Aditya & Kapur, Devesh, 2021. "The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India," SocArXiv 2qvwb, Center for Open Science.
    26. Jain, Chandan & Kashyap, Shagun & Lahoti, Rahul & Sahoo, Soham, 2022. "Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India," IZA Discussion Papers 15278, IZA Network @ LISER.
    27. Philipp Barteska & Jay Euijung Lee, 2025. "Personnel is policy (implementation): Bureaucrats and the Korean export miracle," CEP Discussion Papers dp2099, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    28. Caesar Marga Putri & Josep Maria Argilés-Bosch & Diego Ravenda, 2023. "Thirty Years of Village Corruption Research: Accounting and Smart Villages for Village Sustainability as Future Research Direction," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-19, June.

  9. Michael Callen & Saad Gulzar & Ali Hasanain & Abdul Rehman Khan & Yasir Khan & Muhammad Zia Mehmood, 2013. "Improving Public Health Delivery in Punjab, Pakistan: Issues and Opportunities," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 18(Special E), pages 249-269, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Salman Arif Mir & Waqas Shair & Saem Hussain & Said Aleemuddin, 2023. "Factors Influencing Household Satisfaction with Public Healthcare Services," Journal of Policy Research (JPR), Research Foundation for Humanity (RFH), vol. 9(2), pages 422-432.
    2. Aiza Sarwar, 2021. "Mapping out regional disparities of reproductive health care services (RHCS) across Pakistan: an exploratory spatial approach," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 5(3), pages 825-849, October.
    3. Masooda Bano, 2019. "Contracting out of basic health facilities in Pakistan: Are the lessons generalizable?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 37(2), pages 260-273, March.
    4. Saem Hussain & Waqas Shair & Salman Arif Mir & Said Aleemuddin, 2023. "Public Health Care Services in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis of Drivers of Utilisation," Journal of Economic Impact, Science Impact Publishers, vol. 5(2), pages 155-161.

Chapters

  1. Saad Gulzar & Nicholas Haas & Benjamin Pasquale, 2023. "Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas," Springer Books, in: Ashwini Deshpande (ed.), Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, chapter 32, pages 729-759, Springer.
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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 12 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (9) 2014-06-02 2015-05-22 2015-09-05 2016-02-23 2016-06-18 2016-07-02 2021-04-26 2021-09-27 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  2. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (7) 2014-06-02 2016-02-23 2016-06-18 2016-07-02 2020-02-03 2021-04-26 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  3. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (2) 2021-04-26 2023-07-17
  4. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (2) 2015-05-22 2020-09-07
  5. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (2) 2015-05-22 2015-09-05
  6. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2021-04-26
  7. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (1) 2024-07-29
  8. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-09-27
  9. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2021-09-27
  10. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2021-09-27
  11. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (1) 2014-06-02

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