Recent Articles (details at Google Scholar):

• An algorithm for generating a composite proxy target variable for business decision-related machine learning models. Machine Learning eJournal SSRN 2022; 4277180. 

• Divide and Decide (DiDe): A simple strategy for managing groupthink in the decision making process, Machine Learning eJournal SSRN 2022; 4104654.

• ARIMA-based forecasting of the effects of wildfire on the increasing tree cover trend ..., Resources, Environment and Sustainability 2022; 10(100091).

• Practice cost and size differences in invasive plant management strategies: An empirical analysis of US Great Plains states. Environmental Challenges 2022; 7:100474.

• Relationships among college-level science course enrollment, environmental perception, and pro-environmental attitude: Evidence from the US General Social Survey, Environmental Challenges 2021; 5:100389.

• Relationships among toilet sharing, water source locations, and handwashing places without observed soap: A cross-sectional study of the richest households in Bangladesh, Environmental Health Insights 2021; 15:1–6.

• Mental model-based repeated multifaceted (MRM) intervention design: A conceptual framework for improving preventive health behaviors and outcomes, BMC Research Notes 2021; 14:103.

• Household smoke-exposure risks associated with cooking fuels and cooking places in Tanzania: A cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health survey data, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021; 18 (5): 2534.

• Officially confirmed COVID-19 and unreported COVID-19–like illness death counts: An assessment of reporting discrepancy in Bangladesh, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2021; 104 (2): 546–548.

Selected Book Chapters:

• ODA to and external debt in LDCs: recent trends. In Istanbul Programme of Action for the LDCs (2011-2020), 2014, pp. 318-354, London: Commonwealth Secretariat.

• State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2012-13 and Outlook for FY2013-14, 2014, Dhaka: CPD.

• State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2010-11and Outlook for FY2011-12, 2012. Dhaka: CPD.

• State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2009-10 and Outlook for FY2010-11, 2011 Dhaka: CPD.

• State of the Bangladesh Economy in FY2008-09 and Outlook for FY2009-10, 2010, Dhaka: CPD. 

Ongoing Patent/Research:

• An algorithm for composite proxy variable to predict business decisions with limited information.

• An experimental framework on consumer valuation of and attitudes towards experience good under group friendliness and happiness.

• Self-rated and social determinants of health spending attitudes in the United States. 

• Behavioral strategies and residential water conservation: A meta-regression analysis of field experiments.

Recent Abstracts:

• Public search interests related to COVID-19: Insights from Google search trends in Bangladesh. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 116, S35, PS04.30(734).

• Household smoke-exposure risk from cooking fuels and cooking locations in Tanzania: A cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative survey data. Lancet Global Health, 8, S30.

Selected Codes (details at GitHub and Harvard Dataverse):

• Generating composite proxy target variable for machine learning models of business decisions, GitHub, 2022.

• Stata and R codes for: household smoke-exposure risks from cooking fuels and cooking places in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study, Harvard Dataverse, 2021.

• Estimation of household smoke-exposure risk using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, MethodsX, 2021.

Selected Presentations:

• Expected cost savings of early adoption of conservation strategies in the US: A decision-making analysis, ESA & CSEE Joint Meeting, Montreal, CAD, 2022.*

• Beliefs, attitudes, norms, and environmental intention: Longitudinal evidence from the USA (with F. Tanin), Norms and Behavioral Change Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 2019.*

• Behavioral strategies and residential water conservation: A meta-regression analysis of field experiments, Sustainability and Development Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018. 

• Envious preferences in two-sided matching contract, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016.

Selected Op-Eds:

• 3 unusual sources for scientific inspiration, Elsevier Connect.

• Determining true COVID-19 death counts: Why and how (in Bengali), Bonik Barta.

• Nature, ancient books and practices: Three sources of innovative research ideas (in Bengali), Prothom Alo.

• Bad policy or wrong priority: Why public health policy fails? The Business Standard.

• Inaccurate Covid-19 death reporting can lower international health assistance, The Business Standard.

• Self-initiated Ph.D. research: Learning from and writing with a peer from a different major, Medium.

• Facilitating strategic medical equipment production, Financial Express.

• Philosophy about the Doctor of Philosophy, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research.

• Mental model mapping for behavioral program design, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research.

• Overcoming researcher's block with homegrown experiences, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research.

• Behavioral interventions in public policy, Financial Express.

• Alternative SHS electrification in rural Bangladesh: The economics of trust, Energy and Power 8(24), 27.

• Prerequisites of investment decision at stock market, Financial Express.

• Intensifying pre-crisis coping strategies, Financial Express.

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