Atonu Rabbani
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Dhaka. I am currently on leave from DU and holding Mushtaque Chowdhury chair in Health and Equity at the James P Grant School of Public Health at the BRAC University. I have academic affiliations with JPAL (MIT), International Growth Centre (IGC, based at LSE and Oxford), Centre for Evaluation and Development (C4ED, Mannheim) and Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES, Monash University). I am also an advisor at South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). Previously, I have worked as a full-time Research Fellow at the Institute of Microfinance (InM). Before that I have worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Medicine and Center for Health and Social Science (CHeSS) at the University of Chicago.
Currently, I am working in a number of research projects addressing intra-firm productivity and management issues in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. I also work in public health field to understand how promotion using local women leaders and also monitoring and incentive can motivate better hand hygiene behaviours. I have recently worked on evaluating an employer-based mandatory health security scheme to understand how incentives can alter households’ health-seeking behaviour. I am also increasingly interested in climate change, energy use, and environmental issues.
Professor, Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty
James P Grant School of Public Health
University of Chicago,Chicago,United States, PhD in Economics, 2007
University of Chicago, Chicago, United States, Masters in Economics, 2003
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Masters of Social Sciences in Economics, 1998
University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Masters of Social Sciences in Economics, 1997
2021─Present: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka.
Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty
Coordinating and conducting MPH courses.
Co-ordinating research projects as PI and Co-PI.
Exploring adoption of renewable energy technology (RET) among apparel exporters in Bangladesh: Policy landscape, current capacities, and future pathways
Building Support for the Mental Health of School Going Adolescents in Rural Bangladesh
Transforming Households with Refraction and Innovative Financial Technology (THRIFT): Trial of vision interventions to improve digital financial literacy and resilience through the use of mobile-phone based banking apps in Bangladesh
A Media Experiment to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh
Engineering Energy-Efficient Behaviours and Conservations in Household Electricity Market in Urban Dhaka
Empowering the measurement of economic growth on the ground: Exploring energy use and enterprise behaviours in Dhaka
June 2015 – August 2021 Department of Economics, University of Dhaka. - Associate Professor,
December 2021 – Present, Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES) at Monash Business School, Monash University - Non-Resident Fellow
December 2019 – Present, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) - Advisor
May 2016 – Present, International Growth Centre (IGC), based at LSE and Oxford - Research Affiliate
January 2016 – Present, The Center for Evaluation and Development, Mannheim - Research Fellow
December 2009 – Present, Economics Research Group, Dhaka, Bangladesh - Director
October 2019 – Present, J-PAL Research Initiatives, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), MIT - Invited Researcher