Ishtiaque Fazlul

Health Policy & Management,
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health & School of Public and International Affairs

Curriculum Vitae

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Health Policy & Management,

Dr. Ishtiaque Fazlul is an applied microeconomist working on data-driven and evidence-based policy design in the fields of health and education. His research evaluates how policies and institutions affect health and education and explores ways of better measuring policy-relevant variables in these fields. Dr. Fazlul has published articles on the impact of federal and state health policies on access to and disparities in care; risky health behavior; the social determinants of health; maternal and child health; global health; measurement of student disadvantage; and school funding. He holds a joint assistant professor position at the College of Public Health and the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.

Before joining UGA, Dr. Fazlul was a Research Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University (KSU) and an affiliate faculty at the Education Economics Center. Prior to that he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Economics Department at the University of Missouri and worked on projects related to K-12 policy using Missouri’s education microdata. Dr. Fazlul’s previous work experience includes a graduate research assistant position at the Georgia Policy Labs (GPL), a collaboration between Georgia State University and a number of government agencies and school districts to promote evidence-based policy development and a research associate position at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

Education
  • PhD, Georgia State University, 2020, Economics
Areas of Expertise

Causal inference, Advanced Quantitative Methods, Health Economics and Policy, Education Economics and Policy, Health Disparity, Risky Health Behavior, Social Determinants of Health, Maternal and Child Health, Global Health, Measurement of Student Disadvantage, and School Finance

Research Interests

Causal inference, Advanced Quantitative Methods, Health Economics and Policy, Education Economics and Policy, Health Disparity, Risky Health Behavior, Social Determinants of Health, Maternal and Child Health, Global Health, Measurement of Student Disadvantage, and School Finance

Selected Publications

Fazlul, Ishtiaque, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons. (2023). “Free and reduced-price meal eligibility does not measure student poverty: Evidence and policy significance.” Economics of Education Review.

Fazlul, Ishtiaque, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons. (2023). “A Poor Poverty Measure: Look Beyond Free Lunch Data to Identify Children in Need.” Education Next.

Datta, B. K. and Ishtiaque Fazlul. (2022). “Role of subsidized coverage on medication adherence among hypertensive and diabetic patients: Evidence from the NHIS 2011-2018.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine – Focus.

Puneet Arora, Ishtiaque Fazlul, and Tareena Musaddiq. (2022). “Can recognition nudge for teachers and principals improve student performance? Evidence from a field experiment in India.” Applied Economics Letters.

Datta, B. K., Ashwini Tiwari, and Ishtiaque Fazlul. (2022). “Child marriage and risky health behaviors: Tobacco use among child brides in adulthood in India.” BMC Women’s Health.

Charles Courtemanche, Ishtiaque Fazlul, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, and Daniela Zapata. (2021). “The Affordable Care Act’s Coverage Impacts in the Trump Era.” INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing.

Fazlul, Ishtiaque, Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons, and Cheng Qian. (2021). “Estimating test-score growth with a gap year in the data.” AERA Open.

Fazlul, Ishtiaque, Todd Jones, and Jonathan Smith. (2021). “College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking.” Economics of Education Review.

Datta, B. K., Jami Husain, and Ishtiaque Fazlul. (2020). “Tobacco control and household tobacco consumption: A tale of two educational groups.” Health Economics.

Courtemanche, Charles, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, Daniela Zapata, and Ishtiaque Fazlul. (2019). “The Three Year Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Disparities in Insurance Coverage.” Health Services Research, 54(S1): 307-316.

Courtemanche, Charles, Ishtiaque Fazlul, James Marton, Benjamin Ukert, Aaron Yelowitz, and Daniela Zapata. (2018) “The Impact of the ACA on Insurance Coverage Disparities after Four Years.” Ch. 2 in Medicaid: Politics, Policy, and Key Issues, ed. Daniel Lanford. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-53618-133-3.

Presentations

Association for Education Finance and Policy, “Effect of Mother’s Education on Child Health: Evidence from Bangladesh.” March 2018. Portland, OR

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, “The Three Year Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Disparities in Insurance Coverage.” November 2018. Washington, DC

Southern Economic Association, “Effect of Mother’s Education on Child Health: Evidence from Bangladesh.” November 2018. Washington, DC

Association for Education Finance and Policy, “The Effects of School-Based Universal Pre-K Programs.” March 2019. Kansas City, MO

American Society of Health Economists, “Effect of Mother’s Education on Child Health: Evidence from Bangladesh.” June 2019. Washington, DC

American Public Health Association, “Breastfeeding and Gender Preference in the Household.” November 2019, Philadelphia, PA

Southern Economic Association, “Effect of Mother’s Education on Child Health: Evidence from Bangladesh.” November 2019, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Association for Education Finance and Policy, “College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking.” March 2020, (Virtual Conference)

American Society of Health Economists, “ACA Coverage Impacts in the Trump Era.” June 2020, St. Louis, MO (Virtual Conference)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, “College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking.” November 2020 (Virtual Conference)

Southern Economic Association, “ACA Coverage Impacts in the Trump Era” November 2020 (Virtual Conference)

Association for Education Finance and Policy, “Estimating test-score growth with a gap year in the data.” March 2021. Denver, CO

Southern Economic Association, “Using Predicted Academic Performance to Identify At-Risk Students in Public Schools.” November 2022, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Association for Education Finance and Policy, “Free and reduced-price meal eligibility does not measure student poverty: Evidence and policy significance.” March 2022. Denver, CO

Association for Education Finance and Policy, “The Heterogeneous and Longer-Term Effects of the Great Recession (GR) on Public School District Finances.” March 2023. Denver, CO

American Society of Health Economists, “Role of subsidized insurance coverage on medication adherence among hypertensive and diabetic patients: Evidence from the NHIS 2011-2018.” June 2023. St. Louis, MO

News & Media Mentions

Work featured in a webinar arranged by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) titled “Re-thinking the Poverty Indicators in the Education System.” August 2022.

Op-ed published at Atlanta Journal Constitution’s (AJC) education blog “Georgia should pay for more AP exams for students.” March 2022.

Work featured in a Podcast at Fordham Institute’s “The Education Gadfly Show” titled “Another reason we need to test students in 2021.” January 2021.

Paper titled “The Impact of the ACA on Insurance Coverage Disparities after Four Years” showcased in the November 2019 issue of NBER Digest.