Asadul Islam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3709762 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Asadul Islam |
| PRENOMES | Asadul |
| SOBRENOME | Islam |
| ASSINATURA | ISLAM A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9510-1178 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training
Deciphering the Uncanny Valley in Japanese 3d Animation
The Uncanny Valley (UV) phenomenon refers to an eerie feeling when the viewers are confronted with artificial human-like figures with high realism that resemble very closely to humans but lack specific natural attributes, causing a sense of unease and discomfort. This study presents an in-depth analysis of the Japanese 3D animation film Resident Evil: Death Island directed by Eiichiro Hasumi in 2023, exploring its depiction of characters and the …
Labour Market Participation of Women in Rural Bangladesh
Using a large panel dataset on the labour supply behaviours of women and men within households in rural Bangladesh, we find robust evidence that the effects of microfinance on the labour supply are not symmetrical for women and men across different occupations. We also find that giving households access to microfinance helps to smooth out the seasonality in the labour supply via on-farm self-employment-based activities. Within households, the mal…
Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased
In many models of corruption where enforcement is unbiased, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, implying that corruption reduces educational inequality. We develop models of bribery that reflect the fact that in developing countries, anticorruption enforcement is not unbiased, and higher income of a household is associated with higher bargaining power and better quality of institutions. In models of biased enfor…
Friendship and Female Education
We randomly assigned 115 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of two settings: children studying in groups with friends and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0…
Gender Bias in Parental Attitude
Parental bias toward children of a particular gender has been widely observed in many societies. Such bias could be due to pure gender preference or differences in earning opportunities and concern for old-age support. We conduct a high-stakes allocation task (subjects allocate the equivalent of one day’s wages between male and female school-aged students) in rural Bangladesh to examine parental attitudes toward male and female children. Parents,…
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program that made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased years of education for eligible girls by 14%–25%. These girls were more likely to get married later and have fewer children. They also had more autonomy…
The Intergenerational Effect of Cambodia's Genocide on Children's Education and Health
We investigate the intergenerational impact of conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict ended by exploiting geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide that occurred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia. We find that children of individuals who were of prime marriage age during the genocide and experienced greater intensity of genocide have worse educational and health outcome…
The Long-Term Health Effects of Mass Political Violence
Economics of Sex Work in Bangladesh
This chapter examines the economics of sex work in Bangladesh. It begins with an overview of the organization of sex markets in Bangladesh by considering two major categories of female sex workers in the country: those who work in brothels and those who work as floating sex workers. It then discusses the motives for women to engage in prostitution, along with the socioeconomic status of sex workers. It also analyzes the economic returns of sex wo…
The long-term effects of civil conflicts on education, earnings, and fertility
Bureaucratic Corruption and Income
We examine, for the first time, the effects of corruption on income using household survey data from a developing country. Estimating the effects of corruption on income is challenging because of the simultaneous relationship between the two variables. We use a two-step instrumental variable approach to identify the effects of corruption on income. We find that after adjusting for simultaneity bias the act of bribery reduces income and that highe…
Age at Migration, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Outcomes
This study estimates the causal effects of language proficiency on the economic and social integration of Australian immigrants. Identifying the effects of languages on socioeconomic outcomes is inherently difficult owing to the endogeneity of language skills. Using the phenomenon that younger children learn languages more easily than older children, we construct an instrumental variable for language proficiency. To achieve this, we consider the …
The Effect of Informal Networks on Corruption in Education
Using the 2007 household survey data collected by Transparency International Bangladesh, we examine corruption in the education sector in Bangladesh. Our main findings are (i) the incidence of corruption and the amount of bribe increase with the level of red tape, (ii) poorer households, households with a less educated household head, and households with girls studying in school are more likely to be victims of corruption, (iii) households with h…
Admission is Free Only If Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries
In the standard model of corruption, the \n rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's \n education, reflecting higher ability to pay. This prediction \n is, however, driven by the assumption that the probability \n of punishment for bribe-taking is invariant across \n households. In many developing countries lacking in rule of \n law, this assumption is untenable, because the enforcement \n of law is not impersonal or unbiased and t…
Age at Migration, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Outcomes
This study estimates the causal effects of language proficiency on the economic and social integration of Australian immigrants. Identifying the effects of languages on socioeconomic outcomes is inherently difficult owing to the endogeneity of language skills. Using the phenomenon that younger children learn languages more easily than older children, we construct an instrumental variable for language proficiency. To achieve this, we consider the …
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program that made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased years of education for eligible girls by 14%–25%. These girls were more likely to get married later and have fewer children. They also had more autonomy…
The Long-Term Health Effects of Mass Political Violence
The Intergenerational Effect of Cambodia's Genocide on Children's Education and Health
We investigate the intergenerational impact of conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict ended by exploiting geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide that occurred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia. We find that children of individuals who were of prime marriage age during the genocide and experienced greater intensity of genocide have worse educational and health outcome…
Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased
In many models of corruption where enforcement is unbiased, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, implying that corruption reduces educational inequality. We develop models of bribery that reflect the fact that in developing countries, anticorruption enforcement is not unbiased, and higher income of a household is associated with higher bargaining power and better quality of institutions. In models of biased enfor…
The Effect of Informal Networks on Corruption in Education
Using the 2007 household survey data collected by Transparency International Bangladesh, we examine corruption in the education sector in Bangladesh. Our main findings are (i) the incidence of corruption and the amount of bribe increase with the level of red tape, (ii) poorer households, households with a less educated household head, and households with girls studying in school are more likely to be victims of corruption, (iii) households with h…
Admission is Free Only If Your Dad is Rich! Distributional Effects of Corruption in Schools in Developing Countries
In the standard model of corruption, the \n rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's \n education, reflecting higher ability to pay. This prediction \n is, however, driven by the assumption that the probability \n of punishment for bribe-taking is invariant across \n households. In many developing countries lacking in rule of \n law, this assumption is untenable, because the enforcement \n of law is not impersonal or unbiased and t…
Age at Migration, Language Proficiency, and Socioeconomic Outcomes
This study estimates the causal effects of language proficiency on the economic and social integration of Australian immigrants. Identifying the effects of languages on socioeconomic outcomes is inherently difficult owing to the endogeneity of language skills. Using the phenomenon that younger children learn languages more easily than older children, we construct an instrumental variable for language proficiency. To achieve this, we consider the …
Economics of Sex Work in Bangladesh
This chapter examines the economics of sex work in Bangladesh. It begins with an overview of the organization of sex markets in Bangladesh by considering two major categories of female sex workers in the country: those who work in brothels and those who work as floating sex workers. It then discusses the motives for women to engage in prostitution, along with the socioeconomic status of sex workers. It also analyzes the economic returns of sex wo…
The long-term effects of civil conflicts on education, earnings, and fertility
Bureaucratic Corruption and Income
We examine, for the first time, the effects of corruption on income using household survey data from a developing country. Estimating the effects of corruption on income is challenging because of the simultaneous relationship between the two variables. We use a two-step instrumental variable approach to identify the effects of corruption on income. We find that after adjusting for simultaneity bias the act of bribery reduces income and that highe…
The Intergenerational Effect of Cambodia's Genocide on Children's Education and Health
We investigate the intergenerational impact of conflict on the educational and health outcomes of children born years after the conflict ended by exploiting geographical variation in the intensity of the genocide that occurred during the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime in Cambodia. We find that children of individuals who were of prime marriage age during the genocide and experienced greater intensity of genocide have worse educational and health outcome…
The Long-Term Health Effects of Mass Political Violence
Gender Bias in Parental Attitude
Parental bias toward children of a particular gender has been widely observed in many societies. Such bias could be due to pure gender preference or differences in earning opportunities and concern for old-age support. We conduct a high-stakes allocation task (subjects allocate the equivalent of one day’s wages between male and female school-aged students) in rural Bangladesh to examine parental attitudes toward male and female children. Parents,…
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
In 1994, Bangladesh introduced the Female Secondary School Stipend Program that made secondary education free for rural girls. This paper examines the long-term effects of the stipend program on education, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes of women. We find that the stipend increased years of education for eligible girls by 14%–25%. These girls were more likely to get married later and have fewer children. They also had more autonomy…
Labour Market Participation of Women in Rural Bangladesh
Using a large panel dataset on the labour supply behaviours of women and men within households in rural Bangladesh, we find robust evidence that the effects of microfinance on the labour supply are not symmetrical for women and men across different occupations. We also find that giving households access to microfinance helps to smooth out the seasonality in the labour supply via on-farm self-employment-based activities. Within households, the mal…
Distributional Effects of Corruption When Enforcement is Biased
In many models of corruption where enforcement is unbiased, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, implying that corruption reduces educational inequality. We develop models of bribery that reflect the fact that in developing countries, anticorruption enforcement is not unbiased, and higher income of a household is associated with higher bargaining power and better quality of institutions. In models of biased enfor…
Friendship and Female Education
We randomly assigned 115 primary schools in Bangladesh to one of two settings: children studying in groups with friends and children studying in groups with peers. The groups consisted of four people with similar average cognitive abilities and household characteristics. While the achievement of male students was not affected by the group assignment, low-ability females with friends outperformed low-ability females working with peers by roughly 0…
Deciphering the Uncanny Valley in Japanese 3d Animation
The Uncanny Valley (UV) phenomenon refers to an eerie feeling when the viewers are confronted with artificial human-like figures with high realism that resemble very closely to humans but lack specific natural attributes, causing a sense of unease and discomfort. This study presents an in-depth analysis of the Japanese 3D animation film Resident Evil: Death Island directed by Eiichiro Hasumi in 2023, exploring its depiction of characters and the …
Improving Hygiene and Sanitation through Parental Skill Training
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