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Dr Mahreen Mahmud

Lecturer in Economics

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Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of Kent, 2016
MSc in Finance and Economics, University of Warwick, 2009
BSc (Hons) in Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2008

Research interests

Development economics
Behavioural economics

Mahreen works on topics related to development and behavioural economics with field experiments in Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda.

She is particularly interested in women’s low labour force participation rates and lack of enterprise growth in low and middle-income countries.

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Publications by category

Journal articles

Mahmud M (In Press). Home-based Enterprises: Experimental Evidence on Female Preferences from Pakistan. Economic Development and Cultural Change

Mahmud M, Riley E (In Press). Household response to an extreme shock: Evidence on the immediate impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on economic outcomes and well-being in rural Uganda. World Development Full text.

Lee J, Mahmud M, Morduch J, Ravindran S, Shonchoy A (In Press). Migration, Externalities, and the Diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia. Journal of Public Economics Full text.

Mahmud M, Wahhaj Z (2019). Charitable giving or signalling? Voluntary contributions by microcredit borrowers in Pakistan. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 158, 394-415. DOI.

Said F, Mahmud M, D’Adda G, Chaudhry A (2019). It is not power, but how you use it: Experimental evidence on altruism from households in Pakistan. Applied Economics Letters, 27(5), 426-431. DOI.

Mahmud M (2019). Repaying Microcredit Loans: a Natural Experiment on Liability Structure. The Journal of Development Studies, 56(6), 1161-1176. DOI.

Publications by year

In Press