Research
Health Economics; Public Health; Labor Economics; Economics of Public Policy; Applied Machine Learning; Development Economics
Health Economics; Public Health; Labor Economics; Economics of Public Policy; Applied Machine Learning; Development Economics
Awards
Social Sciences Division Award, Austin College, 2025
Social Media: LinkedIn
``Understanding COVID-19 Testing Decisions: Evidence from Machine Learning and Survey Data," with Kang Keun Rhee.
"Regional and Demographic Patterns in U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Analysis", with Kang Rhee and Chizuruoke Onyedim.
“Breastfeeding and Child Development Outcomes across Early Childhood and Adolescence: Doubly Robust Estimation with Machine Learning” (with Andrew Hussey), 2025, Economic Modelling, Volume 151, October 2025, 107225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107225
Previously Released as IZA Discussion Paper #17080
Presentations: SEA Annual Meetings 2023
The Long-Term Impacts of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment of Adults (with Andrew Hussey), forthcoming, Review of Economics of the Household.
Presentations: North Texas Economics Conference 2024
Rural-Urban Gaps in Body Mass Index of Childbearing Women in Bangladesh: Evidence from Counterfactual Decomposition Methods (with Andrew Hussey and Reshad Osmani), forthcoming, Applied Economics.
Presentations: SEA Annual Meetings 2023
“Determinants of unhealthy BMI among women of childbearing age in Bangladesh” (with Reshad Osmani and Albert Okunade), 2024. Journal of Population Research 41(3):16.
“The Affordable Care Act and Racial Disparities in Healthcare Utilization: New Evidence from Employer Mandate” (with Reshad Osmani), 2024. The Review of Black Political Economy 52(2): 143-169.
“A note on the relationship between COVID-19 and stock market return: evidence from South Asia” (with Md Arafat Rahman, Muhammad Kamran, Pakeezah Butt), 2021. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 15(2): 359-371, https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-03-2021-0124
Pre-PhD Research:
“Determinants of Service Quality and Impact of Service Quality and Consumers' Characteristics on Channel Selection,” with Saida Sultana, 2015, British Food Journal, 117(8): 2078-2097, https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2014-0431
``Economic and Demographic Factors Associated with Antenatal Care Utilization in Bangladesh: An Ordered Response Analysis using Cross-Sectional Data", with Shuvongkar Sarkar, Md Kamruzzaman, and Md.Mozaffar Hossain. Accepted at Health Science Reports.
“Explaining the Role of Socioeconomic, Healthcare Access, and Infrastructural Shifts in Nutritional Transition among Bangladeshi Women during 2004–2018” (with Promit Chowdhury, Sorif Hossain, & Karar Zunaid Ahsan), 2024. Public Health, 236: 268-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.08.010
“Contraceptive uses among married women in Bangladesh: a systematic review and meta-analyses” (with Sorif Hossain, Tahmina Akter, Md Mohsin, Md Momin Islam, Promit Barua Chowdhury), 2024. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 43:10.
“Predicting nutritional status for women of childbearing age from their economic, health, and demographic features: A supervised machine learning approach” (with Kang Rhee, Mohammad Shabbir Hasan, & Karar Zunaid Ahsan), 2023. PLoS ONE 18(5): e0277738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277738
“Regional education and wealth-related inequalities in malnutrition among women in Bangladesh” (with Sorif Hossain and Rajon Banik), 2022. Public Health Nutrition, 25(6): 1639-1657, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980021003840
“The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers' Laws on Maternal Mortality", with Babasoji Oyemakinde.
“The Effect of Workweek Reduction Policy on the labor market and health outcomes: Evidence from the Labor Legislation in South Korea."
"Gender Differences in Child Nutrition: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys".
“Climate Change and Violence: Exploring the Link Between Ambient Temperature, Mass Shootings, and Fatal Police Encounters", with Abu Mohammed Naser Titu
“Long COVID, Economic Vulnerability, and Health Disparities: Evidence from Machine Learning and National Health Interview Survey Data", with Kang Rhee.