Muhammad Salman Khalid
Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Social Sciences, IBA Karachi
I am an applied economist who uses modern causal inference to study health, crime and development. My work asks when public policy actually changes outcomes for families, from paid sick leave and adolescent mental health in the United States to digital monitoring of vaccinators in Punjab.
I hold a PhD in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, where I was a Fulbright scholar, and degrees in economics from LUMS. At IBA Karachi I teach applied econometrics and data analytics and direct the Economic Growth and Forecasting Lab. I also write for Dawn and The Express Tribune on Pakistan's economy.
- Applied microeconomics
- Causal inference
- Health economics
- Economics of crime
- Development economics
- Public finance
Selected research
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When Parents Can Spare Time: Paid Sick Leave and Adolescent Mental Health
Submitted, American Journal of Health EconomicsWe study how state paid sick leave mandates shape adolescent mental health in the United States. Using a staggered difference in differences design with data from the National Survey of Children's Health and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, we find that access to paid sick leave raises the use of mental health care among adolescents and lowers self reported depressive symptoms.
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Efficacy of Technology Aided Monitoring for Early Childhood Vaccination Coverage: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Working paperWe evaluate the electronic vaccination monitoring system rolled out across Punjab, Pakistan, using household survey data and a difference in differences design to ask whether digital oversight of vaccinators raised immunization coverage.
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Revisiting Unilateral Divorce, Health, and Crime
Working paperWe revisit the classic evidence on unilateral divorce laws using modern staggered adoption estimators, including the Goodman Bacon decomposition, doubly robust difference in differences and the Callaway and Sant'Anna estimator.
Teaching
Lectures and labs →Applied Econometrics
Free lecture slides for Wooldridge's Introductory Econometrics, A Modern Approach (7th edition), chapter by chapter, with R labs that take students from loading data to estimating and interpreting regressions.
Data Analytics for Economists
Practical data work for economists, covering cleaning, visualization, prediction and the basics of machine learning on real economic data.
Health Economics
The economics of health and health care, from demand for health and insurance markets to evidence on health policy in Pakistan and abroad.