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Ahmed Mobarak

Yale University

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, a native of Bangladesh, is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, as co-chair of its Urban Services Initiative and of its Environment & Energy Sector work. He is also the academic lead for the Bangladesh Research Program for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at LSE, and Scientific Advisor to Innovations for Poverty Action, Bangladesh.

Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malawi. He conducts field experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely to be welfare improving. He also examines the implications of scaling up development interventions that are proven effective in such trials. His research has been published in journals across disciplines, including Econometrica, Science, The Review of Economic Studies, the American Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Demography, and covered by the New York Times, The Economist, Science, NPR, Wired.com, BBC, Wall Street Journal, the Times of London, and other media outlets around the world. He received a Carnegie Fellowship in 2017.

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Related Projects

  • Seasonal Migration to Alleviate Seasonal Poverty: A Randomized Social Experiment in Vietnam
  • Seasonal Migration and Agricultural Labor Markets in Nepal

Related Publications

  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 44

    The Impact of Seasonal Credit on Agricultural Production and Remittances
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 52

    Seasonal Poverty and the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 54

    Migration and the Labour Market Impacts of COVID-19

Published Articles

  • Nature Medicine 27, 1358-1394

    COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries
  • Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 6

    Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries

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