MIR NAHID MAHMUD
CONTACT
INFORMATION
Department of Economics
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY, 12222
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
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Applied Econometrics
Labor and Health Economics
Impact Evaluation
TEACHING
PREFERNCES
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Macroeconomics (Intro/Intermediate),
Microeconomics (Intro/Intermediate),
Econometrics (Intro/Intermediate),
Health Economics and Health Policy & Management
Labor Economics
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
 [email protected]
(Expected May 2017)
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Economics (Fields: Econometrics, Labor and Health Economics)
Dissertation Title: Three Essays in Health Economics
Committee: Professor Pinka Chatterji , Professor Kajal Lahiri,
Professor Diane Dewar
M.Sc University of Warwick
2010
 Economics
Thesis: Public and Private Consumption in Bangladesh: An Empirical Assessment
M.S.S University of Dhaka
2007
 Economics ( First Class First in Class)
B.S.S. (Honors) University of Dhaka
2006
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EMPLOYMENT
University at Albany
 +1 (518) 210-9084
Economics ( First Class First in Class)
 Lecturer, University of Dhaka
Department of Economics
2008-2015
 Assistant Professor, University of Dhaka
Department of Economics
2015-2016
 Student Assistant
Tax Analytics Solution Center
NYS Department of Taxation and Finance
2014-Present
WORKING
PAPERS
Immigrant Children’s Access to Public Health Insurance after CHIPRA-2009 (JMP)
PUBLICATION
“Public and Private Consumption in Bangladesh: An Empirical Assessment” in Bangladesh
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
University at Albany (Albany, NY)
Although Immigrant children represent approximately 3 percent of total U.S. child population,
they remain the most vulnerable group in terms of access to public health insurance since the
enactment of the infamous “five-year-ban” for legal immigrants in the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act-1996. Children Health Insurance Reauthorization Act
(CHIPRA) of 2009 provided states an option to receive federal funds to expand eligibility for
immigrant children regardless of their length of residency. In this paper, we utilize the cross-state
variation in policy environment before and after the adoption of CHIPRA to compare the
differences in access to public health insurance among the low-income immigrant children. We
find that adoption immigrant child option of CHIPRA has resulted 8 percentage points increase in
health coverage for the target group, almost entirely contributed by equal increase in coverage
through public health insurance. Our measure of estimated treatment effect is lower than what
existing literature reports. We attribute the difference to the existing state-funded programs to
support immigrant children among majority of the CHIPRA states. Increase in coverage entirely
comes from the ranks of previously uninsured children; no evidence of crowding out from the
private insurance was found. We also verify the lack of crowding out by estimating the labor
market response among mothers’ of immigrant children.
Development Studies , Volume XXXV, No.3 (with Mansur Ahmed)
 Instructor: Tools of Economics , Economics of Development (Summer)
Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY)
 Instructor (Spring 2017): Introductory Macroeconomics , Introduction to Health Economics
University of Dhaka (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
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PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Instructor: Mathematics for Economists
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Research Workshop on Emerging Trade Issues for Developing Countries in Asia-pacific
Region (Macau 2010)
Presentation : Trade Liberalization and Poverty in Bangladesh (With Dr. Selim Raihan)
 Budget Decomposition Seminar 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Presentation: Budget and Local Government: Empirics of Fiscal Federalism in Bangladesh (with
Professor M.M.Akash)
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Graduate Assistantship University at Albany
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Commonwealth Scholarship
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Deans Award, University of Dhaka
2006
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M.N.Huda Gold Medal, University of Dhaka
2006
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Nasiruddin Ahmed Gold Medal, University of Dhaka
2007
COMPUTING
SKILLS
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Excellent: Stata, SPSS Modeler, Microsoft Word and Excel (VBA)
Good: SAS, SPSS Statistics, LATEX, Microsoft PowerPoint
Basic : R
LANGUAGE
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Native : Bengali
Fluent: English
HONORS AND
AWARDS
REFERENCES
Professor Pinka Chatterji
 +1 (518) 442-4746
 [email protected]
2011-2014
2009-10
Professor Kajal Lahiri
 +1 (518) 442-4758
 [email protected]
Professor Diane Dewar
 +1 (518) 402-0290
 [email protected]