Drawing on IGC’s new research, Dr. Sabrin Beg (Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware) and Ms. Angbeen Mirza (Assistant Professor of Law at LUMS) discuss how digitising land records in Punjab increased women’s access to inherited land while also reshaping marriage decisions, education investments, and family dynamics.This conversation explores the complex relationship between legal reform, social norms, and women’s economic empowerment.
She holds a B.A., LL.B. from LUMS (2008), and an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School (2010). Mirza’s primary area of interest lies in clinical legal education, specifically street law and access to justice work. She has recently contributed to the Pakistan section of the chapter on Clinical Legal Education in South Asia in Global Clinical Legal Education (2025).
She has a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, with a primary area of expertise in development, economic history, political economy, and applied microeconomics. She has worked on projects in the above fields in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana and India. She has published in various economics journals including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of European Economic Association and Journal of Development Economics. She has previously worked as the chair of the graduate program at University of Economics, and as an Economist at Amazon, and held visiting positions at Lahore School of Economics, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania. She is a trustee of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, an Affiliate at J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) and a Research Fellow at Center for Economic Research in Pakistan and the Mahbub Ul Haq Centre at Lahore University of Management Sciences. She received the Lerner College Outstanding Junior Faculty Scholar in 2021, and the Cleaver Fellowship in 2025.