Publications in Economics/ ABDC-indexed Journals

• “Breastfeeding and Child Development Outcomes across Early Childhood and Adolescence: Doubly Robust Estimation with Machine Learning” (with Andrew Hussey), 2025, Economic Modelling, Volume 151, October 2025, 107225.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107225
• The Long-Term Impacts of Breastfeeding on Educational Attainment of Adults (with Andrew Hussey), forthcoming, Review of Economics of the Household. 
• Rural-Urban Gaps in Body Mass Index of Childbearing Women in Bangladesh: Evidence from Counterfactual Decomposition Methods (with Andrew Hussey and Reshad Osmani), forthcoming, Applied Economics. 
• “Determinants of unhealthy BMI among women of childbearing age in Bangladesh” (with Reshad Osmani and Albert Okunade), 2024. Journal of Population Research 41(3):16.
• The Affordable Care Act and Racial Disparities in Healthcare Utilization: New Evidence From Employer Mandate. Osmani, A. R., & Khudri, M. M. (2024). The Review of Black Political Economy, 52(2), 143–169.
• “A note on the relationship between COVID-19 and stock market return: evidence from South Asia” (with Md Arafat Rahman, Muhammad Kamran, Pakeezah Butt), 2021. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 15(2): 359-371.

• “Explaining the Role of Socioeconomic, Healthcare Access, and Infrastructural Shifts in Nutritional Transition among Bangladeshi Women during 2004–2018” (with Promit Chowdhury, Sorif Hossain, & Karar Zunaid Ahsan), 2024. Public Health, 236: 268-273. 
• “Contraceptive uses among married women in Bangladesh: a systematic review and meta-analyses” (with Sorif Hossain, Tahmina Akter, Md Mohsin, Md Momin Islam, Promit Barua Chowdhury), 2024. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 43:10. 
• “Predicting nutritional status for women of childbearing age from their economic, health, and demographic features: A supervised machine learning approach” (with Kang Rhee, Mohammad Shabbir Hasan, & Karar Zunaid Ahsan), 2023. PLoS ONE 18(5): e0277738. 
• “Regional education and wealth-related inequalities in malnutrition among women in Bangladesh” (with Sorif Hossain and Rajon Banik), 2022. Public Health Nutrition, 25(6): 1639-1657.

• “Understanding COVID-19 Testing Decisions: Evidence from Machine Learning and Survey Data", with Kang Rhee.
• “Economic and Demographic Correlates of Antenatal Care Use in Bangladesh: An Ordered Response Approach", Shuvongkar Sarkar, Md Kamruzzaman, & Md.Mozaffar Hossain.

• “The Effect of Workweek Reduction Policy on the labor market and health outcomes: Evidence from the Labor Legislation in South Korea."
• “The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws on Maternal Mortality", with Babasoji Oyemakinde. 
• “Climate Change and Violence: Exploring the Link Between Ambient Temperature, Mass Shootings, and Fatal Police Encounters", with Abu Mohammed Naser Titu
• “Long COVID, Economic Vulnerability, and Health Disparities: Evidence from Machine Learning and National Health Interview Survey Data",  with Kang Rhee

• American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting: 2023
• American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Annual Meeting: 2025, 2023
• North Texas Economics Conference: 2024
• Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting: 2025 (Scheduled), 2024, 2023, 2022
• Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Annual Conference: 2025