Muhammad Farooq Naseer is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. His active research projects focus on skill acquisition, learning outcomes in schools, inter-generational mobility, political selection and voter behaviour. Naseer is an affiliate of Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), Institute for Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS), Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR) and a Principal Investigator on the Punjab Economic Opportunities Program (PEOP): impact evaluation and evidence-based policy design project. His primary interests are development economics, economics of education and political economy. PhD Economics, Yale University. BSc (Hons) Economics, LUMS.