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Muhammad Yasir Khan

  • Graduate Student
  • University of California - Berkeley

Roles

Researchers

Muhammad Yasir Khan is a graduate student at University of California Berkeley. He also has dual Masters from Columbia University New York and LKY School of Public Policy in Singapore. His research focuses on issues of public service delivery in developing countries and using experiments to identify ways for improvement. Before starting the graduate programme Yasir worked as Country Economist for IGC Pakistan.

Projects

Preference parameters and public sector contracts: A field study with polio vaccinators in Pakistan

Michael Callen, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Karrar Hussain, Charles Sprenger 30 Apr 2022
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Mission driven intrinsic motivation and performance of public workers in Pakistan

Muhammad Yasir Khan 30 Jun 2019
Project

Social spillovers and female political participation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Luke Sonnet 30 Apr 2018
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Impact of leadership and negotiation training on politician performance

Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan 28 Feb 2017
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Coordinating farmers with cellphones: Technology innovation in livestock extension in Pakistan

Ali Hasanain, Arman Rezaee, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Project

Using preference parameter estimates to optimise public sector wage contracts: A field study in Pakistan

James Andreoni, Charles Sprenger, Michael Callen, Karrar Hussain, Muhammad Yasir Khan 31 Aug 2014
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa economic strategy report

Ijaz Nabi, Khalid Ikram, Syed Turab Hussain, Bilal Siddiqi, Usman Khan, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Munir Ahmed, Osama Siddique, Sarah Saeed, Hina Shaikh
Project

Employee personalities and public sector performance

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Ali Hasanain 31 Dec 2012
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Monitoring the Monitors: Using ICT to improve government monitoring in Punjab, Pakistan

Michael Callen, Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan
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Exploiting inter-school variation in test scores to improve quality of public schools

Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Tahir Andrabi, Sohaib Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Yasir Khan 1 Mar 2012
Project

All contributions

Mission creep and motivation among community health workers in Pakistan

Muhammad Yasir Khan
Blog
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Using preference parameter estimates to optimise public sector wage contracts: A field study in Pakistan (Project Memo)

Michael Callen, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Organisation document
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Crowdsourcing government accountability: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

Arman Rezaee, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Working paper
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Using preference parameter estimates to optimise public sector wage contracts: A field study in Pakistan

Michael Callen, Karrar Hussain, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Charles Sprenger
Working paper
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Reclaiming prosperity in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: A medium term strategy for inclusive growth (full report)

Ijaz Nabi, Khalid Ikram, Syed Turab Hussain, Bilal Siddiqi, Usman Khan, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Munir Ahmed, Osama Siddique, Anjum Nasim, Arif Nadeem, Muhammad Ahsan Rana, Hina Shaikh, Rashid Amjad, G. M. Arif
Working paper
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Reclaiming prosperity in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: A medium term strategy for inclusive growth (summary)

Ijaz Nabi, Khalid Ikram, Syed Turab Hussain, Bilal Siddiqi, Usman Khan, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Munir Ahmed, Osama Siddique, Anjum Nasim, Arif Nadeem, Muhammad Ahsan Rana, Hina Shaikh, Rashid Amjad, G. M. Arif
Working paper
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Employee Personalities and Public Sector Performance (Project Memo)

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Organisation document
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The Political Economy of Health Worker Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan (Working Paper)

Michael Callen, Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Working paper
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Bureaucratic Underperformance and Patronage: Evidence from Pakistan (Policy Brief)

Michael Callen, Eli Berman, Ali Hasanain, Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Policy brief
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Learning in Public Schools (Working Paper)

Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Tahir Andrabi, Muhammad Yasir Khan
Working paper