Research

Publications

1. Telementoring and Homeschooling During School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh (with Hashibul Hassan, Asad Islam, & Liang Choon Wang).

• The Economic Journal, Forthcoming. 

2. Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities: A Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh and India (with Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asad Islam & Firoz Ahmed).

• The Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming. Online Appendix, Ungated version.

3. Improving Women's Mental Health During a Pandemic (with Michael Vlassopoulos, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asad Islam & Firoz Ahmed).

• American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(2), 422-255. 2024. Online Appendix, Ungated version.

4. Non-WEIRD Preferences (with Smriti Sharma)

   • • Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, Forthcoming. Edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra.

5. Behavioral Consequences of Religious Schooling

   • • Journal of Development Economics, 167, 103237. 2024. Ungated version.

6. Emotional and Behavioral Impacts of Telementoring and Homeschooling Support on Children (with Hashibul Hassan, Asad Islam, & Liang Choon Wang).

• American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, 2023. 113: 498–502. Ungated version.

7. Market Competition and Discrimination (with Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou). 

   • • European Economic Review, 152, 104361. 2023. Ungated version.

8. Determinants and Dynamics of Food Insecurity During COVID-19 in Rural Bangladesh (with Firoz Ahmed, Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi & Tabassum Rahman)

• Food Policy, 101, 102066. 2021. Ungated version.

9. Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (with Michael Vlassopoulos).

• The Economic Journal, 130(627), 793–821. 2020. Ungated version.

Working Papers

1. Forced Displacement, Mental Health, and Child Development: Evidence from the Rohingya Refugees (with Asad Islam, Tanvir Ahmed Mazumder, Tabassum Rahman & Tanvir Shatil). In submission  

2. Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony (with Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou).  

Fieldwork Underway or Completed

1. Ethnic Cleansing and Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health: Evidence from the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar (with Marup Hossain & Asad Islam). Data collection complete.

2. Building Social Skills and Social Capital Among Rohingya Refugee Children of Myanmar (with Raied Arman, Asad Islam, Shakila Yasmin, Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou). Data collection complete.

3. Parental Involvement in Education and Children’s Human Capital Formation (with Sonya Kruikova, Michael Vlassopoulos & Yves Zenou). Data collection ongoing.

4. Inter-Group Contact and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia (with Chun Chee Kok & Gedeon Lim). Data collection ongoing.

5. Information, Norms, and Quality of Care in Bangladesh  (with Mylene Lagarde, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, Nasrin Akter Mila, & Fahmida Akter). Data collection ongoing.

6. Managers' and Households' Attitudes Toward Women Working in Factories in Pakistan (with Anri Sakakibara & Waqar Wadho). Fieldwork underway.

Opinion pieces and blogs

1. Healing in crisis: Investing in women’s mental health and child development in refugee camps has huge benefits Link

2. Improving women’s mental health in resource-poor settings during crises Link

3. Food Insecurity During Covid-19 Link

4. Delivering COVID-19 Information across the Digital Divide Link

5. Covid-19 and Mental Health: Improving Women’s Mental Well-being via Telecounselling Link

6. How is the Pandemic Affecting Mental Health in Developing Countries? Link

7. Forced Displacement and Mental Health Link

8. Using Information Campaigns to Improve Covid-19 Health Awareness Among Rural Households in Bangladesh and India Link