Rasheda Khanam
B.S.S. Honours and M.S.S. (Chittagong), PhD (Sydney)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ACERH (UQ)
T: +61 7 3346 5253
E: r.khanam@uq.edu.au

Dr Khanam has 10 years teaching and research experience at The University of Southern Queensland, The University of Sydney and The University of Chittagong.  She received her PhD in economics from The University of Sydney in 2006.  Her earlier research has focussed on the issues of child labour and some aspects of macroeconomics and public finance. 

Her research interests include:

• Health, education and human capital accumulation
• The economics of child labour and schooling
• Applied econometrics
• Aging, healthy ageing and health care expenditure.
• Health, socioeconomic status and household economics.
• Impact of health policy

Her current research will focus on health production function and the effects of socioeconomic factors and lifestyle factors on health status.  Dr Khanam’s special research focus will be on the comparison of health outcomes of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander, non-English-speaking - background and English-speaking-background children.  

Selected Publications

Khanam R, “Child labour and school attendance: Evidence from Bangladesh”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol.35 No.1, January 2008, pp.77-98.

Khanam R and Rahman MM, “Child work and schooling in Bangladesh: The role of birth-order”, Journal of Biosocial Science, Vol.39 No.5, September2007, pp.641-56.

Khanam R, “Child labour in Bangladesh: Trends, patterns and policy options”, Asian Profile, Vol.34 No.6, December 2006, pp.593-608.

Rahman MM, Khanam R and Absar N, “Child labor in Bangladesh: A critical appraisal of the Harkin Bill and the MOU type schooling program”, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol.33 No.4, December 1999, pp.985-1003.

Khanam R and Rahman MM, “The causative factors of inflation in Bangladesh—An econometric study”, Chittagong University Studies, Social Science, Vol.16 No.1, August 1995, pp.100-116.

Rahman MM and Khanam R, “Value Added Tax and its application in Bangladesh”, Chittagong University Studies, Social Science, Vol.16 No.1, August 1995, pp.125-42.