Dr Monazza Aslam

Research Officer, CSAE

Biography

Monazza Aslam is a Research Officer for the project :‘Outcomes of Education’ part of the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP) funded by the Department for International Development and based (in Oxford) at the Centre for the Study of African Economies. A Rhodes Scholar from Pakistan (2000), she completed her undergraduate degree at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan in 1999 and her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 2006. Dr. Aslam’s research focuses on the Economics of Education, applied micro-econometrics and gender issues in education in developing countries.

Publications

Aslam, M. (July 2009) “Education Gender Gaps in Pakistan: Is the Labour Market to Blame?”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57 (4).

Aslam, M. (2009) “The Relative Effectiveness of Government and Private Schools in Pakistan: Are Girls Worse Off?”, Education Economics, 17 (3), pp. 329-353.

Aslam M. and Kingdon, G.G. (2009), ‘Public-Private Sector Segmentation in the Pakistani Labour Market', Journal of Asian Economics, 20 (1), pp. 34-49.

Aslam, M. and Kingdon, G.G. (2008), ‘Gender and Household Education Expenditure in Pakistan’, Applied Economics, Vol. 40, pp. 2573-2591, also Global Poverty Research Group (GPRG) Working Paper No. 025.

Aslam, M. (2003), ‘The Determinants of Student Achievement in Government and Private Schools in Pakistan’, The Pakistan Development Review, 42 (4) Part II, Winter 2003, pp. 841-876.

Aslam, M (with Faisal Bari and Geeta Kingdon), (2008) ‘ Returns to Schooling, Ability and Skills in Pakistan’, (revised and resubmitted Education Economics) and also RECOUP WP-20.

Aslam, M. and Kingdon, G.G. (2007), ‘What can Teachers do to Raise Pupil Achievement?’, (status: revise and resubmit Economics of Education Review) and also GPRG WPS/2007-14 and RECOUP-WP 19.

Aslam, M. (2007), 'Female Autonomy and Gender Gaps in Education in Pakistan', (revised and resubmitted to Feminist Economics), also RECOUP-WP 3.

Book Chapters

Aslam, M. (with Geeta Kingdon and Mans Söderbom), (2008), “Is Education a Path to Gender Equality in the Labour Market? Evidence from Pakistan”, in Tembon, M. and L. Fort (eds.) Educating Girls for the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment and Economic Growth, 2008. Washington D.C: The World Bank.

Aslam, M. (2009), 'Collecting Primary-level Quantitative Data - Experience from a Public and Private School Survey in Pakistan', book chapter in edited volume 'Multidisciplinary Approaches in Educational Research: Case Studies from Pakistan and UK', edited by Sadaf Rizvi (Institute of Education, University of London), Agha Khan University - Institute for Education Development (AKU-IED), Pakistan.

Working Papers/Conference Papers

Aslam, M. (with Geeta Kingdon), 'Economic Returns to Schooling, Skills and English Language - the Case of Pakistan', University of Oxford, Department of Economics (Mimeo).

Aslam, M. (with Geeta Kingdon and Sadia Malik), 'Parental Education and Child Health – Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan’, University of Oxford, Department of Economics (Mimeo).

Aslam M. (2007a), ‘Rates of Return to Education by Gender in Pakistan’, GPRG WP-064 and as RECOUP-WP-001.

Work in Progress

  1. Outcomes of Education in Pakistan – A Status Report (joint with Faisal Bari, Sadia Malik, Rabea Malik, Adeel Faheem and Feyza Bhatti);
  2. Outcomes of Education - A Comparative Analysis of India and Pakistan (joint with Geeta Kingdon, Anuradha De and Rajeev Kumar)
  3. Poverty and Subjective Well-being in Pakistan.
  4. Technical and Vocational Schooling in Pakistan.