I am a PhD Candidate in Economics and a Teaching Associate in the Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. My doctoral research lies at the intersection of development, environmental, and agricultural economics, with an emphasis on econometric modelling, causal inference, and policy evaluation.

My thesis examines how natural shocks and climate change affect households and agriculture in Bangladesh — including their distributional effects on consumption, food security, and welfare, the asymmetric effects of climate shocks on rice yields, and the role of adaptation in shaping the persistence of those shocks. My work is supervised by Gaurav Datt and Liang Choon Wang.

Before starting my PhD, I spent over 13 years in applied economic analysis at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), most recently as Deputy Director. There I served as Deputy Project Director of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2022 — Bangladesh’s primary survey for poverty and inequality measurement — and contributed to the Population and Housing Census 2022, national accounts (GDP) compilation, and the production of price, agricultural, and climate-related official statistics. I hold an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Birmingham (UK) and an MBA and BBA from the University of Dhaka.

Research interests

• Development economics — poverty, inequality, food security, household welfare
• Environmental & climate economics — impacts of natural shocks and adaptation
• Agricultural economics — climate shocks and crop (rice) yields
• Applied econometrics — panel data, instrumental variables, causal inference, impact evaluation

Contact

Email: md.hossen@monash.edu Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.