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AbstractFood insecurity tends to be more prevalent amid crises. Several households employ various coping strategies to soften the crisis's financial impact and access adequate food for consumption. This study investigates the impact of various coping strategies on household food insecurity in Pakistan. The study endeavours to identify a more effective coping strategy for reducing food insecurity amid an economic crisis. The study uses nationally represented data surveyed to 'evaluate the socio‐economic impact of a pandemic on the well‐being of people'. We applied the Ordered Logit and Inverse Probability Weighting model to estimate the aftermath of coping strategies on food insecurity levels. The study's findings suggest that a household that used coping strategies amid crisis is a vulnerable household and more likely to have food insecurity status. Moreover, the study suggests that the coping strategies' extent (quantity) is positively associated with the likelihood of food insecurity. Finally, the study's aftermath suggests that amongst the different coping strategies, the erosive coping strategy has a lower likelihood of incidence of food insecurity than other strategies. However, within the erosive coping strategies, a household sold real estate asset has less likelihood of being food insecure than other erosive coping strategies. Moreover, spending savings or investments and liquidating real estate are crucial in determining the household's food security status amid the crisis. The study's key findings put forth some potential policy implications related to strategies that can hedge against the crisis and promote resilience in the face of food insecurity.

This study scrutinizes the effect of external and internal remittances on the outcomes of the labor market of Pakistan. The study uses data from PSLM – HIES 2018-2019. The labor participation analysis used the IV Probit model, while the labor supply analysis utilized the IV technique. The Multinomial Logit model with endogenous covariates is employed for the employment choice. The results reveal that an individual from a remittance-receiving household is less likely to participate in labor vis-à-vis an individual from a non-receiving household. The external and internal remittance inflow increases the labor supply for the labor-participating individual. In addition, more external remittances increase the likelihood of participation in self-employment than wage employment, which supports the positive effect of remittance inflow on labor supply. The higher internal remittances are associated with an increase in the likelihood of participation in farming. In short, our analysis supports the fact that the effect of external remittance is more pronounced on labor market outcomes than internal remittances. The study's findings assist the labor economist in observing the obstacles in the labor force participation and policymaker to understand the entrepreneurial level and economic activities in the remittance-receiving households to turn the effect of remittance into a job creator. JEL Classification: C39, C24, J22, F24.