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Mohammad Niaz
Asadullah BA (Aligarh); MA (Dhaka); MSc
(Oxford); D.Phil. (Oxford); FRSA Dept. of Economics,
Henley Business School, University of Reading Room 282, Email: m.asadullah at
reading.ac.uk ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge
and Organizational Performance (SKOPE), Email: mohammad.asadullah at
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I am a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading and a Visiting Researcher at the ESRC
Centre on SKOPE (Department of Education, University of Oxford). I was a Visiting Fellow at Bangladesh Institute of
Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh during 2010. 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; Fellow, Higher
Education Academy; Member,
Education
Watch Advisory Board. |
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Research Journal Publications 1. Inequality of educational opportunity in India: Changes over time and across states (joint with Gaston Yalonetzky) World Development (Forthcoming, 2012) 2. Intergenerational
wealth mobility in rural Bangladesh, Journal
of Development Studies (Forthcoming, 2012) 3. Poisoning the mind:
Arsenic Contamination of drinking water wells and children’s educational
achievement in rural Bangladesh (joint
with N. Chaudhury), Economics of
Education Review, vol. 30(5), pages
873-888, October 2011. 4. Intra and Inter-household Externalities in Children’s Schooling: Evidence from Rural Residential Neighbourhoods in Bangladesh Applied
Economics,
2011, vol. 43, issue 14,
pages 1749-1767. 5. Religious
Schools, Social Values and Economic Attitudes: Evidence from Bangladesh (joint with N. Chaudhury), World Development, February 2010, Vol.
38(2), pp. 205-217. 6. Reverse
Gender Gap in Schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from Urban and Rural
Households, Journal of
Development Studies, September 2009, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp.
1360–1380. (joint with
N. Chaudhury and A. Dar), Economics of Education Review, Vol.
26(6), December 2007, pp. 648-659. 8. Farm
Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: the Role of Education
Revisited (joint with S. Rahman) Applied
Economics,
Vol. 41(1), January 2009,
pp. 17-33. 9. Returns to
Education in Bangladesh Education
Economics, Vol. 14(4), December 2006, pp. 457–472. 10. The Effect
of Class Size on Student Achievement: Evidence from Bangladesh, Applied Economics Letters, Vol.
12(4), 15 March, pp. 217-221(5). 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Sense
in Sociability? Maternal Education, Social Capital and Child Outcomes in Rural
Bangladesh European Journal
of Development Research,
20(3), pp. 482-496. 14. Pay
differences between teachers and other occupations: Some empirical evidence
from Bangladesh, Journal of Asian
Economics, Vol. 17(6), December 2006, pp. 1044–1065. 15. Educational
disparity in East and West Pakistan, 1947-71: Was East Pakistan discriminated
against?, Bangladesh Development Studies (Vol. XXXIII, No 3, 2010). Working Papers 16. Schooling
Resources, Educational Access and Outcomes: Evidence from a Non-formal School
Program in Bangladesh (joint with Hai-Anh Dang & Leopold Sarr)
(Under Review) 17. Madrasas and NGOs: Non-State providers and growth in female education in Bangladesh, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no 4511. (Under Review) 18. 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. (Under Review) 19. 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. (Under Review) 20. Religious
school choice in rural Bangladesh: Theory and evidence (joint with Rupa Chakrabarti & N Chaudhury) 21. Social
interactions and student achievement (joint with N. Chaudhury), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no 4508. Policy Reports 1.
Secondary
School Madrassahs in Bangladesh: Incidence,
Quality, and Implications for Reform (with N. Chaudhury), The World Bank. 2. Reaching out-of-school children (ROSC)
project – Evaluation report (joint with Leopold Sarr, Hai-Anh Dang,
Nazmul Chaudhury, Dilip
Parajuli), The World Bank. 3.
Secondary Education
Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP): Baseline Report 2009 (with
Nazmul Chaudhury, Dilip Parajuli,
Leopold R. Sarr and Yevgeniya Savchenko) World Bank, Washington DC, USA. Book chapters 1.
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 21st Century: Gender equality, Empowerment and
Growth. World Bank:
Washington, DC. 2. A
Down Payment on a Brighter Future, in Educating
Women and Girls, E-Journal of the U.S. Department
of State. 3. 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 1. Ali Riaz, Faithful
Education: Madrassahs in South Asia Book
reviewed for European Journal of
Development Research, Issue 2, 2010. 2. Mark Bray, The
Costs and Financing of Education: Trends and Policy Implications Book
reviewed for Asia Pacific Education
Review, Volume 5, No 1, 2004. 3. Paul Rivlin,
Economic
Policy and Performance in the Arab World Book
reviewed for Development and Change,
Volume 33, number 4, September 2002. 4. Deepak Lal, Poverty
of Development Economics (2nd edition). Book
reviewed for The Journal of Latin American Politics and
Society, 2002. Work in Progress 1. Islamic school enrolment in
Bangladesh: Evidence from household survey data 2. Going to School in Purdah: Female
Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh (joint with Zaki Wahhaj) 3. Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer
Program on Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Program
Modification in Bangladesh
(joint with Nazmul Chaudhury, Dilip Parajuli, Leopold Sarr & Yevgeniya
Savchenko) 4. Governance and economic development: is
Bangladesh an ‘outlier’? (joint with Antonio Savoia) 5. Evaluating
the quality of secondary madrasahs 6. Inequality of educational opportunity in rural Bangladesh (joint with Gaston Yalonetzky) 7. Twin gender gaps:
Schooling and cognitive achievement in Bangladesh 8. Poverty
and subjective wellbeing in rural Bangladesh 9. International
migration and children’s well-being in Bangladesh Research Grant
Referee Activity ·
Applied
Economics ·
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Contemporary
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Department
for International Development (DFID), UK ·
Food
Policy (2) ·
Economics
of Education Review (2) ·
Education
Economics (7) ·
Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK ·
European
Journal of Development Research (4) ·
International
Journal of Educational Development ·
International
Journal of Educational Research (2) ·
Journal
of African
Economies ·
Journal of Bio-social Science ·
Journal of Education and Work ·
Journal
of International Development ·
Journal
of Population Economics ·
Oxford
Bulletin of Economics and Statistics ·
Oxford
Economic Papers ·
Oxford
Development Studies
(4) ·
Prospects -- UNESCO's Quarterly Review
of Comparative Education ·
Population and Development Review ·
Review
of Development Economics ·
Singapore
Economic Review ·
South
Asia: Journal of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia ·
World
Bank Economic Review ·
World
Development (#) indicates
number of papers reviewed Miscellaneous Madrasa
education in Bangladesh: implications for economic development Symposium in
UKFIET conference, Oxford, September 2011 Madrasah
education: The Bangladeshi experience World
Bank-DFID
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 2006
PAA meeting presentation
PP slides. Reverse gender gap in schooling in
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. |
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