Staff Profile:
- Name::
- Dr Niaz Asadullah
- Position / Job Title:
- Lecturer in Economics
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Economics of Education.
PhD supervision:
I have ongoing surveys on households and institutions in South Asia, data from which will facilitate research on a variety of topics such as poverty, gender inequality, education, social capital and the impact of religion on economic development. Queries from potential PhD students related to such topics for supervision purposes can be addressed directly to me.- Research groups / Centres:
- Centre for Institutional Performance (CIP)
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ESRC Centre on SKOPE (University of Oxford)
- Publications:
Asadullah, M. N. and Chaudhury, N. (2009) "Reverse Gender Gap in Schooling in Bangladesh: Insights from Urban and Rural Households", Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 45, September, No. 8, pp. 1360-1380.
Asadullah, M. N. and Rahman, S. (2009) "Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: the Role of Education", Applied Economics, Vol. 41(1), January, pages 17-33.
Asadullah, M. N., Chaudhury, N. and Dar, A (2007) "Student Achievement Conditioned Upon School Selection: Religious and Secular Secondary School Quality in Bangladesh", Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26(6), December, pp. 648-659.
Asadullah, M. N. and Chaudhury, N. (Forthcoming), "Religious Schools, Social Values and Economic Attitudes: Evidence from Bangladesh", World Development.
Asadullah, M. N. (2005) "The Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement:
Evidence from Bangladesh", Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 12(4), March, pp. 217-221(5).
Asadullah, M. N. (2009) "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.Asadullah, M. N. and Chaudhury, N. (2009) "Holy Alliances: Public Subsidies, Islamic High Schools, and Female Schooling in Bangladesh", Education Economics, Vol. 17(3), September 2009, pp 377-394.
Asadullah, M. N. (forthcoming), "Intra and Inter-household Externalities in Children's Schooling: Evidence from Rural Residential Neighbourhoods in Bangladesh", Applied Economics.
Book chapters
Asadullah, M. N. and Chaudhury, N. (2008) "Holy Alliances: Public Subsidies, Islamic High Schools, and Female Schooling in Bangladesh". In Mercy Tembon and Lucia Fort (eds.) Girl's Education in the 21st Century:
Gender equality, Empowerment and Growth. World Bank: Washington, DC.
Asadullah, M. N., Chaudhury, N. and Dar, A. (2009) "Assessing the performance of madrassas in rural Bangladesh" in Harry Anthony Patrinos, Quentin Wodon, Felipe Barrera-Osorio (eds.) Emerging Evidence on Vouchers and Faith-Based Providers in Education. World Bank: Washington, DC.- Qualifications:
- D.Phil Economics, 2005, University of Oxford; MSc Development Economics, 2000, University of Oxford, St Antony's College; MA Economics, 1998, Dhaka University, Bangladesh; BA Economics, 1996, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
Affiliations:
- Associate Research Fellow, ESRC Centre on SKOPE, University of Oxford
- Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford
- Research Associate, Department of International Development, QEH, University of Oxford
- Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
- Associate Member, European Network on the Economics of Religion (ENER).
