Dr Mahreen Mahmud
Senior Lecturer in Economics
M.Mahmud@exeter.ac.uk
+44(0)139375231
Streatham Court 0.47
Streatham Court, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK
Overview
Qualifications
- PhD in Economics (University of Kent)
- MSc in Finance and Economics (University of Warwick)
- BSc (Hons) in Economics (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
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Research
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.
Publications
Journal articles
Mahmud M, Riley E (In Press). Adapting to an aggregate shock: the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on rural households. Review of Economics of the Household Abstract.
Ahmed H, Mahmud M, Said F, Tirmazee Z (In Press). Encouraging Female Graduates to Enter the Labor Force: Evidence from a Role Model Intervention in Pakistan. Economic Development and Cultural Change Abstract.
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
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
Bonan J, Mahmud M, d' Adda G, Said F (In Press). Nudging Payment Behaviour: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Electricity. The World Bank Economic Review Abstract.
Moffett BD, Pozuelo JR, van Heerden A, O'Mahen HA, Craske M, Sodi T, Lund C, Orkin K, Kilford EJ, Blakemore S-J, et al (2022). Digital delivery of behavioural activation therapy to overcome depression and facilitate social and economic transitions of adolescents in South Africa (the DoBAt study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 12(12). Abstract. Author URL.
Mahmud M, Wahhaj Z (2019). Charitable giving or signalling? Voluntary contributions by microcredit borrowers in Pakistan. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 158, 394-415.
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.
Mahmud M (2019). Repaying Microcredit Loans: a Natural Experiment on Liability Structure. The Journal of Development Studies, 56(6), 1161-1176.
