Work in progress
- Schreiber V, Rabbani A, Woodruff C. Low-cost Management Training in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector.
- Anawal SN, Rabbani A. Not Always Both Ways: Trust and Reciprocity among Workers in a Semi-Formal Manufacturing Setting.
- Rabbani A, Sarker M. The Roles of Hierarchy in Masculine Norm Conformity in Determining Risky Sexual Behavior among Young Men in Urban Dhaka Slum.
- Rabbani A, Rizwan A, Apu AR, Jabbar A, Van Heteren GM, Sarker M. Culturally contextualized psychodrama to change the perception of young men in the slums of Dhaka city regarding gender equitable norms: An experimental approach.
Working Papers
- Akerlof R, Ashraf A, Macchiavello R, Rabbani A. Layoffs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory. CEPR Discussion Paper DP15106. Download. CESifo Working Paper No. 8492. Download. Between journals!
- López-Peña P, Rabbani A. Willingness to Accept Preschool Incentives in Urban Bangladesh. Download here.
- López-Peña P, Rabbani A, Woodruff C. Urban Life, Employment and Well-Being in Bangladesh. Download here.
- Rabbani A. Can Leaders Promote Better Health Behavior? Learning from a Sanitation and Hygiene Communication Experiment in Rural Bangladesh. SANDEE Working Paper no. 122-17. Download here.
- Ashraf A, Macchiavello R, Rabbani A, Woodruff C. The Effect of Political and Labour Unrest on Productivity: Evidence from Bangladeshi Garments. IGC Working Paper December, 2015. Download.
- Asri V; Biswas K, Fehrler, S, Fischbacher U, Michaelowa K, Rabbani A. Contacts Matter: Local Governance and the Targeting of Social Pensions in Bangladesh. Working Paper/Technical Report. University of Konstanz. Download.
- Rabbani A. Estimating the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on childhood immunization using subnational exposure in Bangladesh. Currently under review.
- Macchiavello R, Menzel A, Rabbani A and Woodruff, C. Challenges of Change: An Experiment Training Women to Manage in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15085. Download. NBER Working Paper 27606. Download. Revisions requested.
- Islam MN, Rabbani A, Sarker M, De Allegri M. Health loans and their effects on utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure: Evidence from an experiment in northern Bangladesh. Currently under review.
Published Papers
- Khan, F.C., Misha, F., Murshid, N., Rabbani, A. and Talukdar, B. (2023) ‘The wellbeing of garment workers in Bangladesh during COVID-19 – does gender matter?’, Int. J. Gender Studies in Developing Societies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.76–94.
- Islam MN, Rabbani A, Talukder A, Siddiqua RR, Nujhat S, Rahman M, Roy A, Sarker M. Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh. Journal of Development Effectiveness. 2023 Apr 7:1-28.
- Grépin KA, Mueller V, Wu N, Rabbani A. Unmasking the truth: experimental evidence of facemask compliance in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS Global Public Health. 2023 Mar 30;3(3):e0001086.
- Fahmi R, Barua M, Rizwan A, Rahman A, Aarafat E, Jabbar A, Rabbani A, Sarker M. ‘I Left My Old Self in the Training Session and Came Back With a New One’: Positive Behavioural Changes Among Young Male Participants of Psychodrama Intervention Living in an Urban Slum in Bangladesh. The Journal of Men’s Studies. 2022 Sep 29:10608265221130510.
- Mueller V, Grépin KA, Rabbani A, Ngunjiri A, Oyekunle A, Wenham C. Domestic Burdens Amid COVID-19 and Women's Mental Health in Middle-Income Africa. Forthcoming at Feminist Economist.
- Bakhtiar, M.M., & Rabbani, A. (2022). Household Shocks and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Northern Bangladesh. The Journal of Developing Areas 56(4), 279-302.
- Rabbani A, Mehareen J, Chowdhury IA, Sarker M. 2022. Mandatory employer-sponsored health financing scheme for semiformal workers in Bangladesh: An experimental assessment. Social Science & Medicine, 292, p.114590.
- Hussam R, Rabbani A, Reggiani G, Rigol N. 2022. “Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (1): 1-41. [Lead Article]
- Mueller V, Grepin K, Rabbani A, Navia B, Wu N. How Resilient are Women During the Global Pandemic? Insights from Mobile Phone Surveys in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13200.
- Berner-Rodoreda A, McMahon S, Eyal N, Hossain P, Rabbani A, Barua M, Sarker M, Metta E, Mmbaga E, Leshabari M, Wikler D, Bärnighausen T. Consent requirements for testing health policies: an intercontinental comparison of expert opinions. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. February 2022.
- Smith DW, Sultana S, Crider Y, Islam SA, Swarthout J, Goddard F, Rabbani A, Stephen P. Luby SP, Pickering AJ, Davis J. Effective demand for in-line chlorination bundled with rental housing in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Environmental Science & Technology. 2021, 55 (18), 12471–82. Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01308.
- Jahan I, Iqbal K, Rabbani A, Shonchoy AS. “One and a Half Years into the Pandemic in Bangladesh: What Have We Learned So Far?” Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Special Issue on COVID-19, 2021, 23(1), 1-18.
- Hussam R, Rabbani A, Reggiani G, Rigol N. 2022. “Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (1): 1-41. [Lead Article]
- Wahid SS, Sandberg J, Sarker M, Arafat AE, Apu AR, Rabbani A, Colón-Ramos U, Kohrt BA. A distress-continuum, disorder-threshold model of depression: a mixed-methods, latent class analysis study of slum-dwelling young men in Bangladesh. BMC psychiatry. 2021 Dec;21(1):1-2.
- Rabbani A, Hasan MM. "The Role of Borrowing in Crisis Coping Among Ultra-Poor Households in Rural Bangladesh." Journal of Asian Economics Volume 73, April 2021:101273. Link. The accepted version can be downloaded here.
- Hossain N, Rabbani A, Sarker M. Health Shock and Preference Instability: Assessing Health-State Dependency of Willingness-to-Pay. Health Economics Review (2019) 9: 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-019-0249-3 Link.
- Islam MN, Engels T, Hossain S, Sarker M, Rabbani A. Willingness to Pay for Cataract Surgeries Among Patients Visiting Eye Care Facilities in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Applied health economics and health policy. 2019 May 7:1-10. Link.
- Rabbani A, Biju NR, Rizwan A, Sarker M. "Social network analysis of psychological morbidity in an urban slum of Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study based on a community census" BMJ Open 2018;8:e020180. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020180. Download.
- Rabbani A, Khan A, Yusuf SS, Adams A. "Trends and determinants of inequities in childhood stunting in Bangladesh from 1996/7 to 2014." International Journal for Equity in Health 15, no. 1 (2016): 186. Download.
- Ruthbah UH, Rabbani A, Hossain MS, Sarwar G. “Do extra hours of tutoring payoff? Evaluation of a community education programme in Bangladesh.” Journal of Development Effectiveness 8, no. 2 (2016): 196-215. Download.
- Khan A, Rabbani A. Assessing Spatial Accessibility of Microfinance in Northern Bangladesh: A GIS Analysis. Journal of Regional Science, Volume 55, Issue 5, pages 842–870, November 2015. Article first published online: 17 FEB 2015, DOI: 10.1111/jors.12196. Download.
- Macchiavello R, Rabbani A, Woodruff, C. The Market for Training Services: A Demand Experiment with Bangladeshi Garment Factories. American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105(5), pp. 300-304. Download.
- Rabbani A. Food Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Poverty Measures. The Bangladesh Development Studies Volume XXXVII, March-June 2014, Number 1&2. Download.
- Adams AM, Rabbani A, Ahmed S, Mahmood SS, Sabir AA, Rashid SF, Evans TG. Explaining equity gains in child survival in Bangladesh: scale, speed and selectivity in health and development. The Lancet, Volume 382, Issue 9909, Pages 2027 - 2037, 14 December 2013. Published Online: 21 November 2013. Download.
- Rabbani A, Khalily B. Dynamics and Determinants of Overlapping Borrowing from Microfinance Institutions. Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Special Issue on Microfinance, 2012. ISSN 1529-0905. Download.
- Cohen A, Rabbani A, Shah N, Alexander GC. Changes in glitazone use among office-based physicians in the US, 2003–2009. Diabetes care. 2010 Apr 1;33(4):823-5. Download.
- Dorsey ER, Rabbani A, Gallagher SA, Conti R, Alexander GC. Impact of FDA Black Box Warnings on Atypical Antipsychotic Medication Use. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jan 11;170(1):96-103.
- Invited commentary: Rochon PA, Anderson GM. Prescribing optimal drug therapy for older people: sending the right message. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jan 11;170(1):103-6.
- Rabbani A, Alexander GC. Cost Savings Associated With Filling A Three-Month Supply Of Prescription Medicines: Evidence From The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2000-2005. Appl Health Econ Health Policy. 2009; 7(4):255-64.
- Rabbani A, Alexander GC. Impact of Family Structure on Stimulant Use among Children with Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Health services research. 2009 Dec;44(6):2060-78.
- Rabbani A. Household structure and other determinants of health care demand for children in rural Bangladesh. J Biosoc Sci. 2009 Sep;41(5):645-59. Epub 2009 Jun 17.
- Rabbani A, Alexander GC. Out-of-pocket and Total Costs of Fixed-dose Combination Antihypertensives and Their Components. Am J Hypertens, 21, no. 5 (2008): 509-513.
- Editorial: Arredondo A. Out-of-pocket costs to users: Medicine options for hypertension. Am J Hypertens 2008 04/18;21(5):492.
- Yin W, Basu A, Zhang J, Rabbani A, Meltzer DO, Alexander GC. Impact of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit on drug utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures. Annals of Internal Medicine. Ann Intern Med, February 5, 2008; 148(3):169-177.
- Editorial: Stuart, B. Where Are the Medicare Part D Claims Data? Ann Intern Med, 2008 148(3):239-240.
Book Chapters
Mueller V, Wu N, Rabbani A, Grepin K. "Chapter 10: Women’s Economic and Social Vulnerability to the Pandemic: Lessons from Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria" in COVID-19 and Women around the World: Gendered Risks, Impacts, and Response (Eds. J. Smith and C. Wenham)
Quayyum Z, Homsi MN, Hamid SA, Rabbani A. Mobilization of Resources for the Rohingya Humanitarian crisis. Forthcoming in Bangladesh Health Watch Report 2019: Health Sector Response to The Rohingya Crisis. Dhaka, Bangladesh: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University.
Rabbani A. On Recognizing Skill Formation as a More Effective Development Strategy. Bangladesh Priorities: Helping Make Vision 2021 A Reality Volume II. Edited by Bjørn Lomborg and Mahfuzur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh: AHDPH, 2017
Rabbani A. The Problems and Prospects of Higher Education in Bangladesh (with Special References to the University of Dhaka). Imtiaz Ahmed and Iftekhar Iqbal (eds.), University of Dhaka: Making, Unmaking and Remaking. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Prothoma, 2016.
Rabbani A. Status and Prospect of For-Profit Private Health Insurance in Bangladesh. Published in Bangladesh Health Watch Report 2011: Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage. Dhaka, Bangladesh: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. [To download the report, click here.]
Quayyum Z, Homsi MN, Hamid SA, Rabbani A. Mobilization of Resources for the Rohingya Humanitarian crisis. Forthcoming in Bangladesh Health Watch Report 2019: Health Sector Response to The Rohingya Crisis. Dhaka, Bangladesh: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University.
Rabbani A. On Recognizing Skill Formation as a More Effective Development Strategy. Bangladesh Priorities: Helping Make Vision 2021 A Reality Volume II. Edited by Bjørn Lomborg and Mahfuzur Rahman, Dhaka, Bangladesh: AHDPH, 2017
- This paper was originally commissioned by Copenhagen Consensus Center under their Smarter Solutions for Bangladesh Project. Media coverage: The Daily Star, The Financial Express, প্রথম আলো, The Project Syndicate. The paper is available here.
Rabbani A. The Problems and Prospects of Higher Education in Bangladesh (with Special References to the University of Dhaka). Imtiaz Ahmed and Iftekhar Iqbal (eds.), University of Dhaka: Making, Unmaking and Remaking. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Prothoma, 2016.
- Bangla version published as "উচ্চশিক্ষার সমস্যা এবং সম্ভাবনা" ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় নতুন যুগের সন্ধানে (সম্পাদনা ইমতিয়াজ আহমেদ এবং ইফতেখার ইকবাল) প্রথমা প্রকাশন, পৃষ্ঠা ১৭১-১৯২, ২০১৭।
Rabbani A. Status and Prospect of For-Profit Private Health Insurance in Bangladesh. Published in Bangladesh Health Watch Report 2011: Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage. Dhaka, Bangladesh: James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University. [To download the report, click here.]
Other Works
Zinchenko A, Mahmud W, Rizwan A, Apu AR, Sarker M, Rabbani A. Social cognition and spatial attention: the role of stereotype-congruence, negative emotions and general incompatibility. Dormant.
Human Capital Investments in Haiti: Benefit-Cost Analyses of Some Selected Education Interventions (Originally commissioned by Copenhagen Consensus Center under Haïti Priorise Project). Paper can be found here.
State of Microfinance in SAARC Countries (Background Report for an International Seminar to be held at SAARC Secretariat, November 30-December 1, 2010). Final version submitted in September, 2010.
An Assessment of Poverty, Inequality and Employment Related MDGs in Bangladesh (Background Paper on Assessment of MDG 1.A and MDG 1.B Related Indicators for Bangladesh). Final version submitted in July, 2010.
Human Capital Investments in Haiti: Benefit-Cost Analyses of Some Selected Education Interventions (Originally commissioned by Copenhagen Consensus Center under Haïti Priorise Project). Paper can be found here.
State of Microfinance in SAARC Countries (Background Report for an International Seminar to be held at SAARC Secretariat, November 30-December 1, 2010). Final version submitted in September, 2010.
An Assessment of Poverty, Inequality and Employment Related MDGs in Bangladesh (Background Paper on Assessment of MDG 1.A and MDG 1.B Related Indicators for Bangladesh). Final version submitted in July, 2010.
- A version published as মোঃ আমজাদ হোসেন, অতনু রব্বানী "বাংলাদেশের আয় প্রবৃদ্ধির টাইম সিরিজ বিশ্লেষণ" বাংলাদেশ উন্নয়ন সমীক্ষা, খন্ড ৩৪ বার্ষিক সংখ্যা, ১৮২৩ (২০১৭).