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How to Manage Portfolios in Different Clusters? An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Using the daily data from 2010 to 2023 on global indices for 15 heterogeneous stocks’ prices, this study examines traditional portfolio theory by applying unsupervised machine learning, particularly the K-means clustering algorithm. This algorithm id... Read More about How to Manage Portfolios in Different Clusters? An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach.

Effects of cumulative COVID-19 cases on mental health: Evidence from multi-country survey. (2023)
Journal Article

Depression and anxiety were both ranked among the top 25 leading causes of global burden of diseases in 2019 prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The pandemic affected, and in many cases threatened, the health and lives of milli... Read More about Effects of cumulative COVID-19 cases on mental health: Evidence from multi-country survey..

Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh (2023)
Journal Article

Bangladesh initiated the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme (MHVS) in 2007 to improve maternal and child health practices and bring equity to the mainstream of health systems by reducing financial and institutional barriers. In this study, we investigate... Read More about Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh.

Impact of lockdown relaxation and implementation of the face-covering policy on mental health: a United Kingdom COVID-19 study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Pandemic mitigation policies, such as lockdown, are known to impact on mental health of individuals. Compulsory face covering under relaxed lockdown restrictions gives assurance of less transmission of airborne infection and has the poten... Read More about Impact of lockdown relaxation and implementation of the face-covering policy on mental health: a United Kingdom COVID-19 study.

Effects of food trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh: a partial equilibrium approach (2020)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., & Fang, C. (2020). Effects of food trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh: a partial equilibrium approach. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.jwer.20200901.12

Using a partial equilibrium model, we examine the effects of full tariffs withdrawal from food imports of Bangladesh on its poverty and inequality. We show that if tariffs are withdrawn from food imports, domestic food prices decrease, but the sizes... Read More about Effects of food trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh: a partial equilibrium approach.

Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol and results of first three weeks from an international cross-section survey - focus on health professionals (2020)
Journal Article

Background
The psychological impact of COVID-19, resultant measures and future consequences to life will be unveiled in time.

Aim
To investigate the psychological impact of COVID-19, resultant restrictions, impact on behaviours and mental wellbe... Read More about Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Protocol and results of first three weeks from an international cross-section survey - focus on health professionals.

Does shorter postnatal hospital stay lead to postdischarge complications? An instrumental variables approach (2019)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., Pallikadavath, S., & Khatton, R. (2019). Does shorter postnatal hospital stay lead to postdischarge complications? An instrumental variables approach. Journal of International Development, 31(5), 432-471. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3412

We exploit the difference in means of postnatal hospital stays between beneficiary mothers of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) and control mothers to estimate causal effects of postnatal hospital stay on postdischarge complications of a mother and her ne... Read More about Does shorter postnatal hospital stay lead to postdischarge complications? An instrumental variables approach.

Maternal and child health care services' utilization data from the fourth round of district level household survey in India (2019)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., & Pallikadavath, S. (2019). Maternal and child health care services' utilization data from the fourth round of district level household survey in India. Data in Brief, 23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103738

In this article, we briefly discuss the data used in the article entitled “How Much Do Conditional Cash Transfers Increase the Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Care Services? New Evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India” (Rahman and Pall... Read More about Maternal and child health care services' utilization data from the fourth round of district level household survey in India.

Direct and indirect effects of Janani Suraksha Yojana on antenatal care and institutional delivery (2019)
Journal Article
Pallikadavath, S., & Rahman, M. (2019). Direct and indirect effects of Janani Suraksha Yojana on antenatal care and institutional delivery. https://doi.org/10.31579/2642-9756/006

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) provides conditional cash incentives to eligible pregnant women in India so that they can take at least three antenatal care services including tetanus injection and iron-folic acid, to deliver their babies in health inst... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of Janani Suraksha Yojana on antenatal care and institutional delivery.

Cleaner nudges? Policy labels and investment decision-making (2018)
Journal Article
Lange, I., Moro, M., & Rahman, M. (2018). Cleaner nudges? Policy labels and investment decision-making. Energy Journal, 39(6), 27-52. https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.39.6.ilan

Recent evidence suggests that labeling of unconditional cash transfers leads recipients to spend more on the labeled good. In this paper we show that the Winter Fuel Payment, an unconditional cash transfer, has distortionary effects on the market for... Read More about Cleaner nudges? Policy labels and investment decision-making.

How much do conditional cash transfers increase the utilization of maternal and child health care services? New evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India (2018)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., & Palliakdavath, S. (2018). How much do conditional cash transfers increase the utilization of maternal and child health care services? New evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India. Economics and Human Biology, 31, 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.08.007

Janani Suraksha Yojana (safe motherhood scheme, or JSY) provides cash incentives to marginal pregnant women in India conditional on having mainly institutional delivery. Using the fourth round of district level household survey (DLHS-4), we have esti... Read More about How much do conditional cash transfers increase the utilization of maternal and child health care services? New evidence from Janani Suraksha Yojana in India.

Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh (2014)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. (in press). Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh. Journal of Development Studies, 50(11), 1550-1569. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.887688

Since the famine in 1974, the Bangladesh government and some national and international agencies have been providing food, or cash, or both, to poor households through the Social Safety Net programmes. I seek to estimate how much these programmes aff... Read More about Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh.

Estimating the effects of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh on calorie consumption of poor households (2012)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. (2012). Estimating the effects of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh on calorie consumption of poor households

The Social Safety Net (SSN) programmes play a key role in Bangladesh to protect the poor households from food insecurity. This study examines the effect of these programs on calorie consumption of poor households using the 2005 Household Income and E... Read More about Estimating the effects of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh on calorie consumption of poor households.

Why do men earn more than women? An analysis using British Household Panel Survey (2012)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., & Khatoon, R. (2012). Why do men earn more than women? An analysis using British Household Panel Survey

The analysis of pay gap across gender is sensitive to the use of specific econometric techniques. While the estimates may reveal upward bias in case of exclusion of significant covariates, the use of inappropriate estimation techniques results in und... Read More about Why do men earn more than women? An analysis using British Household Panel Survey.

Assessing the existence of the J-curve effect in Bangladesh (2009)
Journal Article
Khatoon, R., & Rahman, M. (2009). Assessing the existence of the J-curve effect in Bangladesh

This paper estimates the short run and long run impact of depreciation of Taka on trade balance in Bangladesh using cointegration techniques. The results support a positive influence of devaluation on trade balance both in the short and long run. The... Read More about Assessing the existence of the J-curve effect in Bangladesh.