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State reform, land rights, and rural livelihoods in Pakistan

Project Active from 25 Mar 2024 to 1 Sep 2025 State Effectiveness

This project evaluates the productivity and welfare impacts of a state-led reform in Punjab, Pakistan, to partition jointly held agricultural land and improve individual land rights.

Researchers

Ali Cheema

Associate Professor of Economics, International Growth Centre
Sarah Khan

Sarah Khan

Assistant Professor, Yale University
Farah Said

Farah Said

Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Cory Smith

Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

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