Updated: August 2021
Sakib Mahmood
Research Fellow in the Economic Development and Growth Cluster BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
BRAC UNIVERSITY
Email:[email protected]
FIELDS OF INTEREST Development Economics Political Economy Industrial Organization Labor Economics
EDUCATION
PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley, 2020
EMPLOYMENT
BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
● Research Fellow in the Economic Development and Growth Cluster, 2020-Present University of California, Berkeley, USA
● Lecturer, 2018-2020
● Research Assistant - Prof. Elisabeth Sadoulet, UC Berkeley, 2013-2014
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Article
● Das, N., Janvry, A. D., Mahmood, S., & Sadoulet, E. (2016). Migration as a risky enterprise: A diagnostic for Bangladesh. International Migration Review. 53(3): 900-029.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
● “Migration Expectation and Economic Behavior,” 2017.
● “Government Trust and Civic Participation: Evidence from a lottery,” 2017.
● “Social Norms, Technology Adoption, and Team Productivity,” with Laura Boudreau and Oren Reshef, 2018.
● “The Impact of Jobs on Marital Decisions” with Narayan Das, 2019.
Updated: August 2021
PRESENTATIONS
● Presentations “Migration as a risky enterprise: A diagnostic for Bangladesh,” December 2013:
presented at the conference on “International Labor Mobility and Inequality across nations” in Clermont-Ferrand (France) in January 2014.
● “Migration Expectation and Economic Behavior”, 2016: Presented at the Development Lunch at UC Berkeley in March 2016.
● “Social Norms, Technology Adoption, and Team Productivity”, 2018: Presented at the Development Economics Seminar at UC Berkeley in November 2018.
HONORS AND ACCOLADES
● International Growth Centre Grant (£95,771), 2020
● Weiss Family Program Fund ($40,000), 2019
● International Growth Centre Grant (£19,460), 2018
● Weiss Family Program Fund ($10,000), 2018
● UC Berkeley Travel Grant ($2,000), 2017
● UC Berkeley Summer Research Fellowship ($2,000), 2017
● BRAC-CEGA Fund ($5,000), 2016
