SKSalman Khalid
Research

Research

My research applies modern difference in differences and synthetic control methods to questions in health, crime and development, with a focus on credible identification from staggered policy adoption.

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Under review

  • When Parents Can Spare Time: Paid Sick Leave and Adolescent Mental Health

    with Anwar Assamidanov
    Submitted, American Journal of Health Economics

    We 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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Working papers

  • Efficacy of Technology Aided Monitoring for Early Childhood Vaccination Coverage: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    with Umair Ali
    Working paper

    We 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

    with Morgan Stockham and Anwar Assamidanov
    Working paper

    We 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.

Work in progress

  • Are Police Trainings Effective in Providing Procedural Justice? Evidence from the Dallas Police Department

    Sole authored
    Work in progress

Two newer projects are under way. One examines how recent floods disrupted Pakistan's supply driven health system and what that meant for health outcomes. The other measures how smog in Lahore has affected yields of major crops.

Peer reviewed

  • Iterative Design of an Immunization Information System in Pakistan

    Razaq, Batool, Ali, Khalid, Saif and Naseem
    ACM DEV 2016
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Policy reports and briefs

  • Missed Opportunity: Revisiting Pakistan's Choices

    Editor
    State of Pakistan's Economy 2024-25, IBA Karachi

  • Inclusion of People with Disability in Pakistan's Third Tier Organizations

    with Ahmed, Gul, Quinn and Vyborny
    Policy brief, PPAF, 2019
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Grants and honors

  • SESS Competitive Research Grant, principal investigatorWealth Transfer from Developed Nations to Developing Nations during COVID2024
  • American Institute for Economic Research Award2021 to 2022
  • Runner up, National Institute of Justice Recidivism Forecasting Challenge2021
  • Fulbright Scholar2019 to 2024
  • CGU Trustee Fellowship2019 to 2020