Zunia Tirmazee

Zunia is an Assistant Professor at CREB and a Research Fellow at the Lahore School. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Lahore School of Economics. Her research interest is in labor markets with a focus on gender and education. Her research focuses on understanding the implications of different demand and supply side factors for labor market outcomes of various referent groups. Her ongoing research includes testing the effectiveness of a low-cost motivational nudge on women’s job search effort and the subsequent decision to enter labor force; understanding firms’ constraints to hiring women; understanding the impact of post-secondary education background of graduates on their labor market outcomes. She is also entering new avenues of research with some of her recent work exploring the significance of social norms for sustained behavioral change.
Email: zunia@lahoreschool.edu.pk
Google Website:https://sites.google.com/view/zuniasaiftirmazee

Journal Articles

Growth in Pakistan: Inclusive or Not? (with Maryiam Haroon), Pakistan Development Review, Special Edition 54 (4), pp.335-350, 2015

Reviewing Pakistan's Import Demand Function: A Time-Series Analysis, 1970-2010 (with Resham Naveed), The Lahore Journal of Economics, Special Edition, pp.371-393, 2014

Working Papers

Impact of Parental Occupation on Career Aspirations (with Fatimah Shah), CREB Working Paper, No. 05-20, 2020

Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location within Districts of Punjab, CREB Working Paper No. 02-16, 2016

Other Publications

Undergraduate Female Students in Lahore: Perceived Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), CREB Policy Paper, No. 01-20, 2020

COVID-19 and urban households in Lahore, Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), CREB Policy Brief, No. 01-20, 2020

Presentations at Conferences

Undergraduate Female Students in Lahore: Perceived Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), Ahmedabad University's 2nd Annual Economics Conference: Economics in Challenging Times, 2021

Firm Side Constraints to Hiring Women (with Serene Ho and Sakina Shibuya) PEDL Matchmaking Workshop 2020: Conference on Firms in Low-income Countries: Matchmaking Workshop Pre-Conference, 2020

Undergraduate Female Students in Lahore: Perceived Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), GLM-IZA Conference on “Labor Markets in South Asia: Evidence and Policy Lessons”, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2019

Undergraduate Female Students in Lahore: Perceived Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), Second International Conference on Applied Development Economics, Lahore School of Economics, 2019

Overcoming constraints to female labour force entry (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), IZA/DFID Conference on New Research on Labour Markets in Low Income Countries, 2018

Growth In Pakistan: Inclusive or Not? (with Maryain Haroon), Thirtieth AGM and Conference of The Pakistan Society of Development Economics (PSDE), Islamabad, 2014

Presentations at Seminars and Workshops

Undergraduate Female Students in Lahore: Perceived Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), GIGA Lunch Time Seminar, University of Hamburg, 2021

Unequal pay for equal eduation! A case of gender wage gap from Punjab Pakistan, Lahore School/LUMS/Duke DevLab Joint Workshop, 2020

Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labour Force: Do Role Model Interventions Work? (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), Lahore School/LUMS/Duke DevLab Joint Workshop, 2020

Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation in Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), Seminar at Govt. Allama Iqbal College, Sialkot, 2020

Constraints to Female Labour Force Participation in Pakistan (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said), Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN), Lahore, 2018

Miscellaneous

Co-convener (with Hamna Ahmed, Maryiam Haroon and Farah Said) Applied Development Economics Conference, Lahore School of Economics, 2021

Conducted skills training workshop on Quantum Geographic Information System (with Dareen Latif), Lahore School of Economics, 2021

Represented team Pakistan as a Faculty Advisor, South Asian Economics Students’ Meet (SAESM), Colombo, 2020

Participated in the matchmaking workshop (with Serene HO and Sakina Shibuya), PEDL Matchmaking Workshop, 2020

Participated in the short course, IZA/DFID Short Course on Program Evaluation, 2019

Research in Progress

Firms Side Constraints to Hiring Women (with Serene HO and Sakina Shibuya)

Overcoming Constraints to Female Labor Force Entry (with Hamna Ahmed, Mahreen Mahmud and Farah Said)

Post-Secondary Education Background and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Graduates (Kate Vyborny)