Islamul Haque
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE), Yale University
I am an applied microeconomist specializing in development and environmental economics. My research focuses on identifying and overcoming the frictions that constrain climate change adaptation and labor mobility in developing countries. I study how to design scalable solutions to these challenges and generate empirical evidence on their effectiveness and implementation at scale.
I received my PhD in economics from the University of Southern California. Much of my work combines large-scale field experiments and administrative data from Bangladesh.
Who Bears the Loss from a Flood? Incidence through Land and Labor Markets in Rural Bangladesh
When a severe flood destroys livestock and equipment, the capital loss falls on the largest landholders, and the rest of the village adjusts through its land and labor markets: land rents fall, the land-poor shift from wage work into self-employment, and consumption is smoothed in every group.
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- Fields
- Development economics · Environmental economics · Climate adaptation · Labor mobility
- Affiliations
- Y-RISE and Department of Economics, Yale University · Affiliated Researcher, Jameel Observatory CREWSnet and MIT CRISES (Project Sonar Bangla), MIT
- Contact
- islamul.haque@yale.edu
Luce Hall, Suite 305, Yale University - Office hours
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Writing & media
- Fulfilling the July uprising's promise: Skilled migration for our youth — op-ed with Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, The Daily Star, August 2025
- Climate Change & Water Scarcity: crafting research based on community needs in Bangladesh — Voices in Development podcast, Yale Economic Growth Center, with Mushfiq Mobarak