About the Authors

Zulfiqar Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

Muhammad Asif

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

m.asif@uom.edu.pk

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Malakand, Lower Dir, Pakistan

Naila Nazir

Contributed equally to this work with: Naila Nazir, Ateeq Ur Rehman Irshad, Ikram Ullah

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

Ateeq Ur Rehman Irshad

Contributed equally to this work with: Naila Nazir, Ateeq Ur Rehman Irshad, Ikram Ullah

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and General Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ikram Ullah

Contributed equally to this work with: Naila Nazir, Ateeq Ur Rehman Irshad, Ikram Ullah

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Malakand, Lower Dir, Pakistan

Shabir Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Commerce and Management Sciences, Lower Dir, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.