Ishtiaque Fazlul
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri
I am an applied microeconomist working on topics related to health and education. Some of the research topics I am currently working on include the measurement of student poverty and disadvantage in the US, the determinants of Advanced Placement (AP) course and exam-taking behavior, and the coverage impacts of the ACA in the Trump era.
Before starting my current job as a postdoctoral fellow in the Economics Department at University of Missouri, I finished my PhD in Economics from Georgia State University in 2020 where I also worked as a graduate research assistant for the Georgia Policy Labs (GPL), a collaboration between Georgia State University and a number of government agencies and school districts to promote evidence-based policy development. Prior to the PhD program, I worked for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) as a research associate on several academic research projects. Before that, I received a Master's and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Publications
Datta, B. K., Husain, M. J., & Fazlul, I. (2020). Tobacco control and household tobacco consumption: A tale of two educational groups. Health Economics. (Link)
Courtemanche, Charles, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata, and Ishtiaque Fazlul. (2019). The Three Year Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Disparities in Insurance Coverage. Health Services Research, 54(S1): 307-316. (Link)
Courtemanche, Charles, Ishtiaque Fazlul, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, and Daniela Zapata. “The Impact of the ACA on Insurance Coverage Disparities after Four Years” Ch. 3 in Current Issues in Medicaid: Enrollment, Eligibility, and Politics, ed. Daniel Lanford. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. (Link)
Working Papers
Ishtiaque Fazlul, Todd Jones, Jonathan Smith, "College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking", R & R (Link)
Ishtiaque Fazlul, Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons, and Cheng Qian, "Estimating test-score growth with a gap year in the data", Under Review (Link)
Charles Courtemanche, Ishtiaque Fazlul, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, and Daniela Zapata "The Affordable Care Act’s Coverage Impacts in the Trump Era", Under Review
Puneet Arora, Ishtiaque Fazlul, and Tareena Musaddiq "Can recognition nudge for teachers and principals improve student performance? Evidence from a field experiment in India.", Under Review
Ishtiaque Fazlul “Inter-generational Effects of Education on Health: Evidence from a Secondary School Stipend Program” (Link)
External Grants
Co-PI (with Rachel Anderson, Alexandra Ball, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons). Walton Family Foundation. Measuring Student Disadvantage in the Era of the Community Eligibility Provision (18 months, $146,000)
Policy Papers
Fazlul, I., Jones, T. R., & Smith, J. (2020). Taking Advanced Placement Courses but Not the Exam. Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education (MAPLE), Georgia Policy Labs. (Link)
Ishtiaque Fazlul, Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons, and Cheng Qian, "Bridging the Covid Divide: How States Can Measure Student Achievement Growth in the Absence of 2020 Test Scores." (2020). (Link)