Ishtiaque Fazlul

• 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

• 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

• PI. Georgia CTSA Pilot Grant. Turning Policy into Health: Translating Insurance Affordability Subsidies into Better Healthcare Access.
• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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.