Ishtiaque Fazlul

Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Faculty Affiliate of Owens Institute for Behavioral Research

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’s work explores how social factors, financing systems, and organizational structures and processes affect health and education. He 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.

Education
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Ph.D., Georgia State University, Economics
Master of Arts, Georgia State University, Economics
Master of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka, Economics
Bachelor of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka, Economics

Areas of Expertise
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Causal inference
Advanced Quantitative Methods
Machine Learning and AI in Healthcare
Global Health
Health Disparity
Risky Health Behavior
Social Determinants of Health
Maternal and Child Health
Measurement of Student Disadvantage
School Finance

Honors, Awards, and Achievements
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Multi-PI (with Soroya McFralane). NIH AIM-AHEAD Program for Artificial Intelligence Readiness grant. THRIVE AI: Community-Engaged AI for Health ($100,000).
Co-PI (with Rachel Anderson, Alexandra Ball, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons). Walton Family Foundation. Measuring Student Disadvantage in the Era of the Community Eligibility Provision. 2020-2021
Center for Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) Fellowship, Georgia State University. 2018- 2020
Dean’s Fellowship, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. 2015- 2017
Usery Chair Research & Travel Grants. 2018- 2020
Ramsey Chair Summer Research Grant. 2018

Affiliations
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Faculty Affiliate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia

Course Instruction
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Introduction to Business Statistics; Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023, Kennesaw State University
Health Economics; Spring 2021, University of Missouri
Principles of Microeconomics; Summer 2017, Georgia State University
Principles of Macroeconomics; Spring 2017, Georgia State University

Research Interests
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Health Economics and Policy
Education Economics and Policy
Global Health
Health Disparity
Risky Health Behavior
Social Determinants of Health
Maternal and Child Health
Measurement of Student Disadvantage
School Finance

Selected Publications
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Henry Woodyard, Tim R Sass, Ishtiaque Fazlul. (2025). “Assessing the Benefits of Education in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Pre-K Lottery in Georgia.” Economic Inquiry.

Datta, B. K., Ishtiaque Fazlul, and Mahmud Khan. (2024). “Long COVID and financial hardship: A disaggregated analysis at income and education levels.” Health Services Research.

Candelaria, Christopher, Ishtiaque Fazlul, Cory Koedel, Kenneth A. Shores. (2024). “Weighting for Progressivity? An Analysis of Implicit Tradeoffs Associated with Weighted Student Funding in Tennessee.” Economics of Education Review.

Fazlul, Ishtiaque, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons. (2024). “Using Predicted Academic Performance to Identify At-Risk Students in Public Schools.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Datta, B. K., Steven S Coughlin, Ishtiaque Fazlul, Ajay Pandey. (2024). “COVID-19 and health care related financial toxicity in the United States: Evidence from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey.” American Journal of Infection Control .

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.