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Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery (2023)
Journal Article
Akbulut-Yuksel, M., Rahman, M. H., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. A. (2023). Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery. European Journal of Political Economy, 79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102436

Combining three datasets, the Australian Longitudinal Census Panel of 2006 and 2011, engineering data on flood-water height, and administrative data on government relief assistance, we investigate whether and how the government’s post-disaster relief... Read More about Silver lining of the water: The role of government relief assistance in disaster recovery.

Does credit availability mitigate domestic conflict? (2022)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, P. S., Chowdhury, P. R., & Rahman, H. (2023). Does credit availability mitigate domestic conflict?. Economic Modelling, 119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106105

This paper establishes that lack of credit is one of the root causes of conflict; with credit being scarce, productive endeavours are less attractive and conflict-led activities more appealing at the margin. Our investigation contributes to the liter... Read More about Does credit availability mitigate domestic conflict?.

“Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments (2022)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. H., Anbarci, N., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. A. (2022). “Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments. Journal of Development Economics, 159, Article 102982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102982

We exploit the exogenous variation in the timing and intensity of storms in island countries to estimate the storms' effect on the extent of democracy. Using a rich panel dataset spanning the period 1950–2020, our difference-in-differences estimation... Read More about “Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments.

Weathering trust (2020)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. H., Lee, G. H., Shabnam, N., & Jayasinghe, S. (2020). Weathering trust. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, 449-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.07.027

We show that interpersonal trusting behavior that forms in the very long run is subject to change in the short run after natural disasters. By matching our novel spatially disaggregated water height–based flood severity data on the 1998 flood in Bang... Read More about Weathering trust.

Can extreme rainfall trigger democratic change? The role of flood-induced corruption (2017)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., Anbarci, N., Bhattacharya, P., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. (2017). Can extreme rainfall trigger democratic change? The role of flood-induced corruption. Public Choice, 171(3-4), 331-358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0440-1

Using a new dataset of extreme rainfall covering 130 countries from 1979 to 2009, this paper investigates whether and how extreme rainfall-driven flooding affects democratic conditions. Our key finding indicates that extreme rainfall-induced flooding... Read More about Can extreme rainfall trigger democratic change? The role of flood-induced corruption.

The Shocking Origins of Political Transitions: Evidence from Earthquakes (2016)
Journal Article
Habibur Rahman, M., Anbarci, N., Bhattacharya, P., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. (2017). The Shocking Origins of Political Transitions: Evidence from Earthquakes. Southern Economic Journal, 83(3), 796-823. https://doi.org/10.1002/soej.12180

Do earthquakes trigger political transitions? Using a rich panel dataset of 160 countries observed over 1950–2007, we find that earthquake shocks, measured in terms of the effect of ground‐motion amplitude on death toll, have two contradicting effect... Read More about The Shocking Origins of Political Transitions: Evidence from Earthquakes.

Economic growth: Measurement
Book
Rahman, M., & Ulubaşoğlu, M. Economic growth: Measurement. (Second edition). International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences