Sonia Akter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3700902 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sonia Akter |
| NOMBRES | Sonia |
| APELLIDO | Akter |
| FIRMA | AKTER S |
| AFILIACIONES | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5644-9403 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The role of educational governance and socioeconomic structures in shaping revolutionary activities in East Bengal
This research investigates the intersection of governance, education, and socio-conditions in shaping revolutionary resistance in East Bengal between 1906 and 1917. The colonial rule aimed at centralizing power at Calcutta, and East Bengal was a peripheral province marked by historical marginalization. However, the socio-economic inequalities, infrastructural gaps, geographical advantages, and the paradoxical effects of colonial education generat…
Energy poverty and unpaid work
This study is the first to investigate the impact of energy poverty on unpaid labour in rural China, utilising a five-year panel dataset spanning from 2014 to 2022. The analysis demonstrates that energy poverty contributes an additional 4.3 to 6.1 min of daily household work for rural adults in China before the COVID-19 pandemic. Households affected by energy poverty bear a greater burden of unpaid household work compared to energy-affluent house…
Socioeconomic well-being losses of Australia’s Black Summer fires (2019–2020)
Effect of Social Support on Mental Health
Social support is crucial for mental and emotional well-being, growth, and lowering the risk of psychological discomfort. Young people have access to a variety of peer-socialization options, including those provided by social media. The impact of social support on mental health has garnered increasing attention, particularly during times of crisis when emotional resilience is most tested. Social networks both traditional and digital serve as crit…
Fire risk in a warming world
Australia’s Black Summer wildfires recovery
This study examines how communities of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, recovered from the extreme wildfire event of 2019–2020 (i.e., the Black Summer fires). Using monthly night-time radiance as an indicator of economic activity in a geographic area (i.e., a mesh block) from January 2017 to June 2021, I conducted a spatio-temporal and socio-economic analysis of economic recovery after the 2019–2020 wildfires using the difference-in-differences …
The impact of an improvement in the quality and reliability of rural residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption
We present the first evidence of the causal effect of the quality and reliability of residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption and use in rural areas of six energy poor Indian states using household-level panel data from 2015 and 2018. Quality and reliability of electricity are measured using the number of hours of electricity supply in a day, the number of days of low voltage and the number of complete power outage days exper…
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India
While the health and environmental benefits of adopting clean cooking fuel are widely documented in the literature, the immediate and direct benefit—women’s time-saving for fuel collection/preparation and cooking—has received little or no attention. Using panel data from 6 energy-poor Indian states involving about 9000 households, we test whether liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) adoption enhances women’s welfare by reducing fuel collection/preparati…
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990-2020
Do catastrophic floods change the gender division of labor? Panel data evidence from Pakistan
This study examines how large-scale environmental shocks alter the gender division of labor in traditional rural societies. Using individual-level time allocation data from the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey 2012, 2013, and 2014, I compare hours spent per week across productive and reproductive activities of more than 8000 adult men and women after the 2011, 2012, and 2013 floods in 76 villages from three provinces of Pakistan. Individual-…
Partners or Rivals? Exploring the Relationship between Men’s and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
The aim of this study is to investigate the statistical relationship between husbands’ empowerment and wives’ empowerment. Using panel data from Bangladesh that include over 4,000 husband-wife pairs, we regress husband’s empowerment on wife’s empowerment and a set of covariates. We use a domain-based framework, similar to the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, to capture the multidimensional nature of empowerment. The findings reveal that …
Is off-grid residential solar power inclusive? Solar power adoption, energy poverty, and social inequality in India
With India’s soaring energy demand and inadequate access to grid electricity in rural areas, off-grid solar power is a potential alternative for tackling India’s energy poverty and inequality. However, little knowledge exists on: (1) the spatio-temporal pattern of solar power adoption by the residential sector in rural areas of India, (2) the extent to which solar power has alleviated (a) energy poverty, and (b) energy access inequality. Using pa…
Increasing smallholder farmers’ market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor‐Leste
This study examines the role of high‐yielding maize varieties as one of the key drivers of smallholder farmers’ market participation in a highly subsistence rural economy. The analysis is based on the End‐of‐Program Survey data collected by the Seeds of Life program in 2016 covering 700 households in rural Timor‐Leste. The results reveal significant positive impacts of technology adoption on farmers’ market participation. Households where women a…
Social cohesion and willingness to pay for cyclone risk reduction
This study presents empirical evidence of the nexus between social cohesion and climate change adaptation from a tropical cyclone prone coastal district of Bangladesh. The climate change adaptation measure considered here is the reduction of tropical cyclone risk through the improvement of coastal polders. The study exploits a unique policy context and uses household data obtained through a contingent valuation survey asking whether 400 randomly …
The Applicability of Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Domestic Tourist Behavioural Intention
The paper aims at expanding the TPB model to examine the relationship among attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, motivation, and behavioural intention as well as the extent to which satisfaction mediates the relationship in the link between TPB predictive constructs along with motivation and behavioural intention. A questionnaire survey technique was administered on d omestic tourists and subsequently, structural equation mo…
An Empirical Examination of Sustainability of Women’s Empowerment Using Panel Data from India
In this article, we empirically test the sustainability of women’s empowerment using representative and rich individual-level panel data from India for the years 2004−5 and 2011−12. Sustainability is defined in terms of durability (whether empowerment is carried forward or continues in the long run) and diffusion (whether empowerment has positive spillover effects). A domain-based framework is used to capture the multidimensional nature of empowe…
The Gender Gap in Covid-19 Mortality in the United States
This study examines population-weighted, sex- and age-disaggregated official COVID-19 mortality data (as of July 25, 2020) from the United States to understand gender gaps (men–women) across age. The analysis yields three key findings: (1) all age groups report about 8 percentage points more deaths among men than women; (2) non-elderly adults (
The link between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence and Children's human capital
Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture
Women’s empowerment is considered a ‘prerequisite’ to achieving global food security. Gender systems, however, are diverse and complex. The nature and extent of gender inequity and the conditions necessary to empower women vary across countries, communities and regions. The study of different gender systems is thus fundamental to capture cross-cultural variations in gender specific needs and constraints to effectively address gender gaps. Althoug…
The influence of gender and product design on farmers’ preferences for weather-indexed crop insurance
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to women farmers who are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change risk and have low adaptive capacity. To date, no quantitative studies have exper…
The effect of communication on individual preferences for common property resources
Application of portfolio theory to asset-based biosecurity decision analysis
The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being
The poverty–vulnerability–resilience nexus
Climate change scepticism and public support for mitigation
Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture
Women’s empowerment is considered a ‘prerequisite’ to achieving global food security. Gender systems, however, are diverse and complex. The nature and extent of gender inequity and the conditions necessary to empower women vary across countries, communities and regions. The study of different gender systems is thus fundamental to capture cross-cultural variations in gender specific needs and constraints to effectively address gender gaps. Althoug…
Climate change scepticism and public support for mitigation
The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India
While the health and environmental benefits of adopting clean cooking fuel are widely documented in the literature, the immediate and direct benefit—women’s time-saving for fuel collection/preparation and cooking—has received little or no attention. Using panel data from 6 energy-poor Indian states involving about 9000 households, we test whether liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) adoption enhances women’s welfare by reducing fuel collection/preparati…
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990-2020
Is off-grid residential solar power inclusive? Solar power adoption, energy poverty, and social inequality in India
With India’s soaring energy demand and inadequate access to grid electricity in rural areas, off-grid solar power is a potential alternative for tackling India’s energy poverty and inequality. However, little knowledge exists on: (1) the spatio-temporal pattern of solar power adoption by the residential sector in rural areas of India, (2) the extent to which solar power has alleviated (a) energy poverty, and (b) energy access inequality. Using pa…
The influence of gender and product design on farmers’ preferences for weather-indexed crop insurance
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to women farmers who are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change risk and have low adaptive capacity. To date, no quantitative studies have exper…
The impact of an improvement in the quality and reliability of rural residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption
We present the first evidence of the causal effect of the quality and reliability of residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption and use in rural areas of six energy poor Indian states using household-level panel data from 2015 and 2018. Quality and reliability of electricity are measured using the number of hours of electricity supply in a day, the number of days of low voltage and the number of complete power outage days exper…
The effect of communication on individual preferences for common property resources
The Gender Gap in Covid-19 Mortality in the United States
This study examines population-weighted, sex- and age-disaggregated official COVID-19 mortality data (as of July 25, 2020) from the United States to understand gender gaps (men–women) across age. The analysis yields three key findings: (1) all age groups report about 8 percentage points more deaths among men than women; (2) non-elderly adults (
Exploring the feasibility of private micro flood insurance provision in Bangladesh
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the feasibility of the provision of micro flood insurance as an effective tool for spreading disaster risks in developing countries and examines the role of the institutional-organisational framework in assisting the design and implementation of such a micro flood insurance market. In Bangladesh, a private insurance market for property damage and livelihood risk due to natural disasters does not exis…
Informing micro insurance contract design to mitigate climate change catastrophe risks using choice experiments
The main objective of this paper is to assess demand for catastrophe insurance in one of the most flood-prone developing countries in the world and to estimate rural household willingness-to-pay for different micro insurance policies to reduce catastrophic flood risks and socio-economic vulnerability. A large-scale rural household survey was conducted targeting more than 1,200 heads of households in five different risk-prone districts in Banglade…
Increasing smallholder farmers’ market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor‐Leste
This study examines the role of high‐yielding maize varieties as one of the key drivers of smallholder farmers’ market participation in a highly subsistence rural economy. The analysis is based on the End‐of‐Program Survey data collected by the Seeds of Life program in 2016 covering 700 households in rural Timor‐Leste. The results reveal significant positive impacts of technology adoption on farmers’ market participation. Households where women a…
Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Risk
In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood‐prone countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive coping mechanisms. Based upon the steadily growing amount of literature in this field we develop and test our own analytical model. In a large‐scale household survey carried out in …
Economic valuation of health risk exposure of restaurant users in Dhaka city
The aim of the study presented in this paper is to estimate the economic cost of health risk exposure of the restaurant users in Dhaka city. In a large-scale survey, 400 restaurant users in Dhaka city belonging to lower-middle to high income group were asked for their preferences for a hypothetical ‘Food Safety Inspection Programme’ using closed ended dichotomous choice contingent valuation questions. The study reveals an average estimated willin…
Preference uncertainty in contingent valuation
Respondent uncertainty in a contingent market for carbon offsets
Informing micro insurance contract design to mitigate climate change catastrophe risks using choice experiments
The main objective of this paper is to assess demand for catastrophe insurance in one of the most flood-prone developing countries in the world and to estimate rural household willingness-to-pay for different micro insurance policies to reduce catastrophic flood risks and socio-economic vulnerability. A large-scale rural household survey was conducted targeting more than 1,200 heads of households in five different risk-prone districts in Banglade…
Exploring the feasibility of private micro flood insurance provision in Bangladesh
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the feasibility of the provision of micro flood insurance as an effective tool for spreading disaster risks in developing countries and examines the role of the institutional-organisational framework in assisting the design and implementation of such a micro flood insurance market. In Bangladesh, a private insurance market for property damage and livelihood risk due to natural disasters does not exis…
Climate change scepticism and public support for mitigation
The poverty–vulnerability–resilience nexus
The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being
Application of portfolio theory to asset-based biosecurity decision analysis
The influence of gender and product design on farmers’ preferences for weather-indexed crop insurance
Theoretically, weather-index insurance is an effective risk reduction option for small-scale farmers in low income countries. Renewed policy and donor emphasis on bridging gender gaps in development also emphasizes the potential social safety net benefits that weather-index insurance could bring to women farmers who are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change risk and have low adaptive capacity. To date, no quantitative studies have exper…
The effect of communication on individual preferences for common property resources
Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture
Women’s empowerment is considered a ‘prerequisite’ to achieving global food security. Gender systems, however, are diverse and complex. The nature and extent of gender inequity and the conditions necessary to empower women vary across countries, communities and regions. The study of different gender systems is thus fundamental to capture cross-cultural variations in gender specific needs and constraints to effectively address gender gaps. Althoug…
The link between mothers' vulnerability to intimate partner violence and Children's human capital
Social cohesion and willingness to pay for cyclone risk reduction
This study presents empirical evidence of the nexus between social cohesion and climate change adaptation from a tropical cyclone prone coastal district of Bangladesh. The climate change adaptation measure considered here is the reduction of tropical cyclone risk through the improvement of coastal polders. The study exploits a unique policy context and uses household data obtained through a contingent valuation survey asking whether 400 randomly …
The Applicability of Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Domestic Tourist Behavioural Intention
The paper aims at expanding the TPB model to examine the relationship among attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, motivation, and behavioural intention as well as the extent to which satisfaction mediates the relationship in the link between TPB predictive constructs along with motivation and behavioural intention. A questionnaire survey technique was administered on d omestic tourists and subsequently, structural equation mo…
An Empirical Examination of Sustainability of Women’s Empowerment Using Panel Data from India
In this article, we empirically test the sustainability of women’s empowerment using representative and rich individual-level panel data from India for the years 2004−5 and 2011−12. Sustainability is defined in terms of durability (whether empowerment is carried forward or continues in the long run) and diffusion (whether empowerment has positive spillover effects). A domain-based framework is used to capture the multidimensional nature of empowe…
The Gender Gap in Covid-19 Mortality in the United States
This study examines population-weighted, sex- and age-disaggregated official COVID-19 mortality data (as of July 25, 2020) from the United States to understand gender gaps (men–women) across age. The analysis yields three key findings: (1) all age groups report about 8 percentage points more deaths among men than women; (2) non-elderly adults (
Do catastrophic floods change the gender division of labor? Panel data evidence from Pakistan
This study examines how large-scale environmental shocks alter the gender division of labor in traditional rural societies. Using individual-level time allocation data from the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey 2012, 2013, and 2014, I compare hours spent per week across productive and reproductive activities of more than 8000 adult men and women after the 2011, 2012, and 2013 floods in 76 villages from three provinces of Pakistan. Individual-…
Partners or Rivals? Exploring the Relationship between Men’s and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
The aim of this study is to investigate the statistical relationship between husbands’ empowerment and wives’ empowerment. Using panel data from Bangladesh that include over 4,000 husband-wife pairs, we regress husband’s empowerment on wife’s empowerment and a set of covariates. We use a domain-based framework, similar to the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, to capture the multidimensional nature of empowerment. The findings reveal that …
Is off-grid residential solar power inclusive? Solar power adoption, energy poverty, and social inequality in India
With India’s soaring energy demand and inadequate access to grid electricity in rural areas, off-grid solar power is a potential alternative for tackling India’s energy poverty and inequality. However, little knowledge exists on: (1) the spatio-temporal pattern of solar power adoption by the residential sector in rural areas of India, (2) the extent to which solar power has alleviated (a) energy poverty, and (b) energy access inequality. Using pa…
Increasing smallholder farmers’ market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor‐Leste
This study examines the role of high‐yielding maize varieties as one of the key drivers of smallholder farmers’ market participation in a highly subsistence rural economy. The analysis is based on the End‐of‐Program Survey data collected by the Seeds of Life program in 2016 covering 700 households in rural Timor‐Leste. The results reveal significant positive impacts of technology adoption on farmers’ market participation. Households where women a…
Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women’s welfare in India
While the health and environmental benefits of adopting clean cooking fuel are widely documented in the literature, the immediate and direct benefit—women’s time-saving for fuel collection/preparation and cooking—has received little or no attention. Using panel data from 6 energy-poor Indian states involving about 9000 households, we test whether liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) adoption enhances women’s welfare by reducing fuel collection/preparati…
The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990-2020
Australia’s Black Summer wildfires recovery
This study examines how communities of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, recovered from the extreme wildfire event of 2019–2020 (i.e., the Black Summer fires). Using monthly night-time radiance as an indicator of economic activity in a geographic area (i.e., a mesh block) from January 2017 to June 2021, I conducted a spatio-temporal and socio-economic analysis of economic recovery after the 2019–2020 wildfires using the difference-in-differences …
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