Reshad Ahsan

When it Rains, it Pours: Estimating the Spatial Spillover Effect of Rainfall

Farzana Hossain, Reshad N Ahsan

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS

A large fraction of the world’s poor rely on rain-fed agriculture, which makes them vulnerable to changes in rainfall patterns. In..

Atlantic Trade and the Decline of Conflict in Europe

Reshad N Ahsan, Laura Panza, Yong Song

Report  |  2022

We use over 200 years of conflict and wheat price data to provide the first quantitative evidence that Atlantic trade contributed ..

FINDING NEW WAYS TO TRACK COVID-19 EXPOSURE

Reshad Ahsan

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

To overcome lower rates of COVID-19 testing in low and middle-income countries, a new method for calculating exposure risk has bee..

Atlantic trade and the decline of conflict in Europe

Reshad Ahsan, Laura Panza, Yong Song

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

While the relationship between trade and war is ambiguous, some argue that diminished trade can pose a threat to global peace by l..

How does violence affect exporters? Evidence from political strikes in Bangladesh

Reshad N Ahsan, Kazi Iqbal

Journal article  |  2020  |  Review of International Economics

Using novel daily data, we examine the impact of political violence on firm‐level export activity. Our data cover the universe of ..

Rainfall rising: the potential downside for farmers in India

Reshad Ahsan, Farzana Hossain

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Rising levels of global rainfall will be a key channel through which farmers in developing countries are exposed to climate change..

Trade liberalization and intergenerational occupational mobility in urban India

Reshad N Ahsan, Arpita Chatterjee

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

We exploit highly disaggregated occupation data to examine the impact of trade liberalization on intergenerational occupational mo..

DOES CORRUPTION ATTENUATE THE EFFECT OF RED TAPE ON EXPORTS?

Reshad N Ahsan

Journal article  |  2017  |  ECONOMIC INQUIRY

I use firm -level data to examine whether corruption attenuates the adverse effects of red tape on exports. I find that, condition..

Can The Whole Actually Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts? Lessons From India's Growing Economy And Its Evolving Structure

Reshad Ahsan, Devashish Mitra

Book Chapter  |  2017

International trade and unionization: Evidence from India

Reshad N Ahsan, Arghya Ghosh, Devashish Mitra

Journal article  |  2017  |  CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE

We exploit exogenous variation in tariffs to examine the impact of import competition on unionization and union wages in a develop..