Faculty Profile

Tahir Mahmood

Assistant Professor

Contact Member

E-mail : tahirmahmood@iba-suk.edu.pk
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Biography

Dr Tahir Mahmood earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the Georg August University Goettingen, Germany in 2018 and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the multidisciplinary KIP Project in the Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut in 2020. He has completed his MSc and MPhil from QAU Islamabad and Graduation from GC University Lahore. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor-Economics, at the Faculty of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan. Dr Tahir is a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan-approved PhD supervisor. Before, joining SIBAU, he remained a faculty member at Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, the University of Chitral, COMSATS Abbottabad and FG Quaid-E-Azam Degree College Rawalpindi. Dr. Tahir has almost ten years of teaching and research experience at national and international organizations and universities. During his Post-doctorate fellowship, he led the quantitative component of the KIP Project: developing an indigenous Women's Economic Empowerment Index the so-called KIP Index for the MENA economies. Furthermore, he was a scientific researcher for one and half years in the Project “AgreeCareerNet: Georg August University, Goettingen”, where my duty was to design a course for master students entitled “Agribusiness in Asia”. Moreover, Dr Tahir has vast experience in using STATA at an advanced level and peer-reviewed publications in international journals. His research areas are Development Economics, Public Health, Behavioral Economics, Applied Micro econometrics and Health Economics.

Qualifications

Degree From Major Year
Postdoc American University of Beirut, Lebanon Economics 2020
PhD Georg August University Goettingen, Germany Economics 2018
MPhil QAU Islamabad Economics 2012
MSc QAU Islamabad Economics 2006
BA GC University, Lahore Economics, Statistics, Pol. Science 2003


Publications

# Title Author(s)
1 Tourism–growth nexus in Pakistan: Evidence from ARDL bounds tests Mahmood , Tahir
2 Afghanistan’s Food Security: Evidence from Pakistan and Afghanistan Wheat Price Transmission using Threshold Vector Error Correction Model (TVECM) Mahmood , Tahir
3 Prevalence and factors associated with underweight children: a population- based subnational analysis from Pakistan Mahmood , Tahir
4 Impact of children born with low birth weight on stunting and wasting in Sindh province of Pakistan: a propensity score matching approach Abbas , Faisal
Kumar , Ramesh
Mahmood , Tahir
5 International Remittances and Women’s Reproductive Health Care: Evidence from Pakistan Mahmood , Tahir
, et al.
6 Why under five children are stunted in Pakistan? A multilevel analysis of Punjab Multiple indicator Cluster Survey (MICS- 2014) Mahmood , Tahir
, et-al
7 Do the Poor Really Feel Poor? Comparing Objective Poverty with Subjective Poverty in Pakistan Mahmood , Tahir
Yu , Xiaohua
Klasen , Stephan
8 Determinants of the food insecurity at household level in Pakistan: A multilevel model approach Mahmood , Tahir
9 He said, she said: Unpacking the determinants of Pakistan’s Intra-household gender differences. Mahmood , Tahir