Asim’s research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous empirical analysis, and microeconomic theory. He is a co-founder of CERP and serves on its board of directors. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and is a former member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. He is also co-founder of the Center for Economic Research Pakistan (CERP). He also co-founded the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), an award-winning social enterprise that used psychometric testing to enable lending over $1.5 billion to small entrepreneurs across 27 countries in LATAM, Africa, and South/Southeast Asia. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals including the American Economic Review, Comparative Education Review, and Journal of Political Economy. His work has received coverage in prestigious media outlets including the Economist, NY Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CNN.