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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Who Bears the Loss from a Flood? Prices, Rationing, and Incidence in Rural Bangladesh

Flood relief often targets the land-poor. Following 5,473 Bangladeshi households matched to satellite flood maps, I show the loss falls on capital that the largest landholders own: they lose livestock and working capital and their income falls, while the labor market rations work rather than lowering the wage and the land-poor adapt through self-employment. Who bears a flood depends on who owns the capital it hits, not who is poor.

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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
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