Mohammad Niaz Asadullah D.Phil., MSc (Oxford), MA (Dhaka), BA (Aligarh) Dept. of Economics, Henley Business School, University of Reading Room 282, HUMSS Building, PO Box 218, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, UK. Email: m.asadullah at henley.reading.ac.uk ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance (SKOPE), University of Oxford Email: mohammad.asadullah at education.ox.ac.uk
	Research Teaching CV Pictures I am a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading. I am also a Visiting Researcher at the ESRC Centre on SKOPE, Department of Education, University of Oxford. Active affiliations include: Research Fellow Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany ( IZA); Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of African Economies; Research Fellow, Economic Research Group (ERG), Dhaka; Research Associate of the Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
	Research Journal Publications Religious Schools, Social Values and Economic Attitudes: Evidence from Bangladesh (joint with N. Chaudhury) World Development (forthcoming) Reverse Gender Gap in Schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from Urban and Rural Households (joint with N. Chaudhury) Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 45, September 2009, No. 8, pp. 1360–1380. Student Achievement Conditioned Upon School Selection: Religious and Secular Secondary School Quality in Bangladesh (joint with N. Chaudhury and A. Dar) Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26(6), December 2007, pp. 648-659. Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: the Role of Education Revisited (joint with S. Rahman) Applied Economics, Vol. 41(1), January 2009, pages 17-33. Returns to Education in Bangladesh Education Economics, Vol. 14(4), December 2006, 457–472. The Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement: Evidence from Bangladesh Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 12(4), 15 March 2005, pp. 217-221(5). (The long version of this paper was presented at the 2002 Meeting of the South Asia Econometric Society). Returns to Private and Public Education in Bangladesh and Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 20(1), January 2009, pp. 77-86. Holy Alliances: Public Subsidies, Islamic High Schools, and Female Schooling in Bangladesh (joint with N. Chaudhury). Education Economics – Special issue: ‘Quality Education for All in South Asia’, Vol. 17(3), September 2009, pp 377-394. Sense in Sociability? Maternal Education, Social Capital and Child Outcomes in Rural Bangladesh European Journal of Development Research, pp. 482-496, 20(3), 2008. Intra and Inter-household Externalities in Children’s Schooling: Evidence from Rural Residential Neighbourhoods in Bangladesh Applied Economics (forthcoming) Pay differences between teachers and other occupations: Some empirical evidence from Bangladesh Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 17(6), December 2006, 1044–1065. Book Secondary School Madrassahs in Bangladesh: Incidence, Quality, and Implications for Reform (forthcoming). Book chapter Holy Alliances: Public Subsidies, Islamic High Schools, and Female Schooling in Bangladesh (joint with N. Chaudhury). In Mercy Tembon and Lucia Fort (eds.) Girl’s Education in the 21^st Century: Gender equality, Empowerment and Growth. World Bank: Washington, DC. Assessing the performance of madrassas in rural Bangladesh (with N. Chaudhury) in Harry Anthony Patrinos , Quentin Wodon, Felipe Barrera-Osorio (eds.) Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education. World Bank: Washington, DC. Book Reviews Ali Riaz, Faithful Education: Madrassahs in South Asia Book reviewed for European Journal of Development Research (forthcoming). Mark Bray, The Costs and Financing of Education: Trends and Policy Implications Book reviewed for Asia Pacific Education Review, Volume 5, No 1, 2004. Paul Rivlin, Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World Book reviewed for Development and Change, Volume 33, number 4, September 2002. Deepak Lal, Poverty of Development Economics (2^nd edition). Book reviewed for The Journal of Latin American Politics and Society, 2002. Recent Unpublished Papers Social divisions in school participation and attainment in India: 1983-2004 (joint with Uma Kambhampati and Lopez-Boo) RES working paper 692, Inter-American Development Bank. Work-life balance practices and the gender gap in job satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from matched employer-employee data (joint with Rosa Fernandez) IZA discussion paper 3582. Intergenerational economic mobility in rural Bangladesh Royal Economic Society 2006 Conference, University of Nottingham. Madrasas and NGOs: Complements or Substitutes? Non-State Providers and Growth in Female Education in Bangladesh World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no 4511. Educational disparity in East and West Pakistan, 1947-71: Was East Pakistan discriminated against? Oxford Economic and Social History discussion paper no 63, University of Oxford. Social interactions and student achievement (joint with N. Chaudhury) World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no 4508. Arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and cognitive achievement of children World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no 4510. Miscellaneous Madrasah education: The Bangladeshi experience World Bank-DFID South Asia Regional Conference on Education for All. 24-26 October 2007. School choice and cognitive achievement in rural Bangladesh South Asia Human Development Sector discussion paper, Report No. 15, World Bank. Religious schools, social values and economic attitudes: Evidence from Bangladesh 2006 PAA meeting presentation PP slides. Reverse gender gap in schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from urban and rural households. Background paper for the Bangladesh Gender Assessment report “Whispers to voices: Gender and social transformation in Bangladesh”. The World Bank. Modern madrasas: changing attitudes towards women in Bangladesh, id21 policy brief. Work in Progress Evaluating the quality of Islamic secondary schools Equality of opportunity across Indian states (joint with Gaston Yalonetzky) Cognitive test scores and non-cognitive traits and behaviour: Evidence from matched student-teacher data Understanding the supply decision of religious schools Incidence of religious schools in rural Bangladesh Bayesian estimation of educational production frontiers (joint with G. Holloway) Poverty and subjective wellbeing in rural Bangladesh Institutional quality, trust, and corruption: Empirical evidence from Bangladesh (joint with M. Mahmud) Referee Activity Applied Economics Asia Pacific Education Review Contemporary South Asia Food Policy (2) Economics of Education Review Education Economics (4) European Journal of Development Research (4) International Journal of Educational Research Journal of African Economies Journal of International Development Oxford Economic Papers Oxford Development Studies (3) Population and Development Review World Development
	Teaching Applied Econometrics (3^rd year UG) Microeconomics (3^rd year UG) Development Economics (3^rd year UG) Microfinance (PG) Development Microeconomics (PG)