Publication

Book

Seasonality and Microcredit, The Case of Northern Bangladesh, SpringerBriefs in Economics, Springer (2014)

Peer-reviewed Journal publications:

(1) Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale (with Johannes Bos, Akib Khan and Saravan Ravindran). Journal of Public Economics. [Forthcoming].

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(2) Social Identity and Learning: Technology-Based Adult literacy Program in India (with Sakshi Bhardwaj). Economics of Education Review. (Volume 99, April 2024, 102507).

(3) Early effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children in north-western Bangladesh (with Momoe Makino and Zaki Wahhaj). Oxford Development Studies. [Forthcoming].

(4) Using international migration links for early detection of COVID-19 risk exposure in low- and middle-income countries (with Kazi Iqbal, Reshad Ahsan, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Mahreen Khan). Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy. (Volume 2023; 1-21).

(5) Data Driven Contagion Risk Management in Low-Income Countries: Machine Learning Applications with COVID-19 in South Asia (With Moogdho M. Mahzab, Towhid I. Mahmood and Manhal Ali). Nature Scientific Reports (Volume 13, 2023, Article number 3732)

(6) A Community Health Workers (CHW) Based Intervention on Anthropometric Outcomes of Children Aged 3-21 Months in Urban Pakistan, 2019-2021 (With Agha Akram, Mahrukh Khan, Hina Khalid, Sidra Mazhar, Akib Khan, Takashi Kurosaki). American Journal of Public Health.

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(7) Narrowing the Gender Gap in Mobile Banking (with Jonathan Morduch, Jean Lee, and Saravana Rabindran). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. [Volume 193, 2022, 276$-$293] (click here for the pdf)

(8) Assessing Gender Parity in Intrahousehold Allocation of Educational Resources: Evidence from Bangladesh (with Tomoki Fujii and Sijia Xu). World Development. [Volume 151, March 2022, Article number 105730] (click here for the pdf)

(9) A novel index-based decision support toolkit for safe reopening following a generalized lockdown in low and middle-income countries (with Khandker Ishtiaq, Sajedul Talukder, Nasar Ahmed, and Rajiv Chowdhury). Nature Scientific Reports [Volume 11, 2021, Article number 14108].

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(10) Migration, Externalities and the Diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia (with Jean Lee, Mahreen Mahmud, Jonathan Morduch and Saravana Ravindran). Journal of Public Economics (Volume 193, 2021, 104312) [Cited in World Bank South Asia Economic Focus; Financial Access Initiative blog.]

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(11) Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh (With Jonathan Morduch, Jean Lee, Hassan Zaman and Saravana Rabindran). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Volume 13, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 38-71) [click here for the pdf]

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(12) Fertility and Rural Electrification in Bangladesh (with Tomoki Fujii). Journal of Development Economics. (Volume 143, March 2020, 102430). [click here for the pdf]

(13) Can Solar Lanterns Improve Youth Academic Performance? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (with Yuya Kudo and Kazushi Takahashi). The World Bank Economic Review. (Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2019, Pages 436–460)). [click here for the pdf]

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(14) Short-term Impacts of Solar Lanterns on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (with Yuya Kudo and Kazushi Takahashi). Journal of Development Studies (Volume 55, Issue 11, June 2019, Pages 2329-2346)

(15) Impact of Electrification on Children’s Nutritional Status in Rural Bangladesh (with Tomoki Fujii and Sijia Xu). World Development (Volume 102, February 2018, Pages 315-330 ). [pdf]

(16) The Impact of a Computer Based Adult Literacy Program on Literacy and Numeracy: Evidence from India (with Ashwini Deshpande, Christopher Ksoll and Alain M. Desrochers) World Development (Volume 96, August 2017, Pages 451–473).[pdf]

(17) How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit among the Ultra-poor? Experimental Evidence from River Islands of Northern Bangladesh. (with Seiro Ito, Kazushi Takahashi and Takashi Kurosaki). Journal of Development Studies (Volume 53, Issue 4, 2017). [pdf]

(18) Political Institutions, Governance and Consumption Expenditure in Developing Countries: A Panel Data Analysis. Contemporary Economic Policy (Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2016) [pdf]

(19) Seasonal Migration and Micro-credit in the Lean Period: Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh. Developing Economies. (Volume 53, Number 1, March 2015) [pdf]

(20) The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants? (With Junankar PNR) IZA Journal of Labor and Development (Volume 3, Issue 9, July 2014). [pdf]

Book Chapters

(1) Primary, Secodary, and Tertiary Education in Bangladesh: Achievements and Challenges' (with Hisaki Kono and Yasuyuki Sawada), In: Yasuyuki Sawada, Minhaj Mahmud, and Naohiro Kitano (eds) Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh: Miracle and Challenges, Chapter 7, Palgrave Macmillan. (2017)

(2) Does Participation in Vocational Training Differ on Agricultural Seasonality (with Israt Jahan), In: Selim Raihan (eds) Structural Change and Dynamics of labor Markets in Bangladesh, South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), Dhaka, Chapter 10. (2016)

(3) Manufacturing Related Statistics with Kenmei Tsubota (Japanese: "Seizogyo Toukei") In: Mayumi Murayama and Tatsufumi Yamagata (eds.) Bangladesh, an unknown industrialized country (Japanese: Shirarezaru Kogyokoku Banguradeshu, Chiba: Ajia Keizai Kenkyusho. (2014)

(4) "IT'' with Kenmei Tsubota, In: Mayumi Murayama and Tatsufumi Yamagata (eds.) Bangladesh, an unknown industrialized country (Japanese: Shirarezaru Kogyokoku Banguradeshu, Chiba: Ajia Keizai Kenkyusho). (2014)

(5) Temporary Migration in the Lean Period: Evidence from Northern Bangladesh, (with Abu Shahriar and Sakiba Zeba), In: Munir Quddus and Farida Khan (eds.) Bangladesh Economy in the 21st Century: Selected Papers from the 2008-09 Conferences at Harvard University, University Press Ltd., Dhaka, Chapter 13. (2011)