Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Hunger during pre-harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive induces 22 % of households to send a seasonal migrant, their consump...
Dennis Egger, Edward Miguel, Shana S. Warren, Ashish Shenoy et al.
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and sub...
Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski, Ashraful Haque et al.
Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing. How then can we persuade more of the population at large to act for the greater good? Abaluck et al . undertook a large, cluster-randomized trial in Bangladesh ...
Rachel Heath, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from fact...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Puneet Dwivedi, Rob Bailis, Lynn M. Hildemann et al.
Biomass combustion with traditional cookstoves causes substantial environmental and health harm. Nontraditional cookstove technologies can be efficacious in reducing this adverse impact, but they are adopted and used at puzzlingly low rates. This study analyzes the determinants of low demand for non...
Raymond Guiteras, James Levinsohn, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Poor sanitation contributes to morbidity and mortality in the developing world, but there is disagreement on what policies can increase sanitation coverage. To measure the effects of alternative policies on investment in hygienic latrines, we assigned 380 communities in rural Bangladesh to different...
Grant Miller, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
There are few marketing studies of social learning about new technologies in low-income countries. This paper examines how learning through opinion leaders and social networks influences demand for nontraditional cookstoves—a technology with important health and environmental consequences for develo...
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Md Shaiful Islam, Abdul Karim, Takad Ahmed Chowdhury et al.
Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published ma...
David Lagakos, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Michael Waugh
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that depends o...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Gharad Bryan, Keesler Welch, Violetta Kuzmova
Mahmood Hossain, Mushfiq Ahmed, Tarequl Islam, Mohammad Zashim Uddin et al.
The Sundarbans is the largest continuous mangrove forest of the world, which is rich in both the floral and faunal diversity compared to other mangrove forests of the World. It has long historical records of forest conversion and management. The objectives of this study were to synthesis the managem...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Edward Miguel, Jason Abaluck, Amrita Ahuja et al.
Vaccines are changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in grossly uneven ways. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face considerable obstacles in both receiving and distributing doses. To limit virus transmission, its devastating impacts, and opportunities for further mutations, this mu...
David Lagakos, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Michael Waugh
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural–urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build and analyze a dynamic general‐equilibrium model of migration that features a rich set of migration motives. We estimate the model to replicate the results of a field experiment tha...
Raymond Guiteras, Amir Jina, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
A burgeoning “Climate-Economy” literature has uncovered many effects of changes in temperature and precipitation on economic activity, but has made considerably less progress in modeling the effects of other associated phenomena, like natural disasters. We develop new, objective data on floods, focu...
M. Farhad Howladar, Pulok Kanti Deb, A.T.M. Shahidul Huqe Muzemder, Mushfique Ahmed
Water is a very important natural resource which can be utilized in renewable or non-renewable forms but before utilizing, the evaluation of the quality of this resource is crucial for a particular use. However, the problems of water quality are more severe in areas where the mining and mineral proc...