Akib Khan

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. I finished my PhD in Economics at Uppsala University in the summer of 2024. Broadly, I am interested in human capital investments in developing countries and international migration. Please see Research for publications and work in progress. Recently, I have joined In Development, a new magazine on international development,  as a contributing editor.

Previously, I was a Jr Economist with IDinsight in Lusaka, Zambia, leading experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations in agriculture, health, and education, and providing M&E support to governments in Zambia, Malawi, and Ghana. With a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, my past experience includes stints with the World Bank, IPA, IGC, and BRAC School of Public Health.

I can be reached at akib.khan@hhs.se or akib.econdu@gmail.com.

Past talks: EAYE Annual Meeting (London; May 29-31, 2025), BSE Summer Forum (Migration; June 5-6, 2025), NBER Public Economics 2024 Spring Meeting, CESifo/ifo Jr Workshop on the Economics of Education 2024, NBER Summer Institute 2023 (Development Economics), NBER Spring meeting 2023 (Children), Yale-RISE Conference (Jamaica, 2022), NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development (Lisbon, 2022), Workshop on Networks & Development (Naples, 2022), NEUDC (Online, 2021).