Islamul Haque

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.

Job Market Paper

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
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