Islamul Haque
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.

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Smooth Today, Poor Tomorrow: Floods and the Making of Chronic Poverty in Rural Bangladesh

Poor rural households smooth consumption through severe floods almost completely, yet three to seven years later the non-poor have rebuilt past their starting point while the poor remain 10 percent down in consumption and 21 points more likely to stay poor. The mechanism is financing: floods destroy the land value that collateralizes production credit.

Draft and full abstract coming soon.

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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