Media

• The American Economic Association (AEA) interviewed Shaikh Eskander to talk about "Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh", coauthored with Ed Barbier, during the 2018 AEA/ASSA Meetings in Philadelphia. Watch the video here: 
• ​LSE's Grantham Research Institute covered "How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya and Senegal". Read the full story here Link
• ​Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s coverage of "Do Natural Disasters Change Savings and Employment Choices? Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan" by Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser and Shikha Jha. ADB’s Shikha Jha shares findings from recent ADB research into how extreme climate events affect rural employment choices. Read the full story here.
• The World Bank listed "Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Shaikh Eskander and Ed Barbier in it's selected readings on Law, Climate Change and Development.   ​
• ​The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) sponsored "Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Shaikh Eskander and Ed Barbier in 2016 AERE Annual Summer Meetings in Breckenridge, CO. Read the coverage by EconThatMatters here.

Blogposts

• Overlapping generations model. In Dictionary of Ecological Economics (pp. 395-395). 2023. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• How well do climate laws help reduce global warming? Science Journal for Kids and Teens, 2021.
• G7 climate laws ‘cut emissions by 1.3bn tonnes in 2019’. Carbon Brief, 2021.
• Can climate change legislation keep its momentum? Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), 2020.
• The impact of current climate policies on greenhouse gas emissions. Commentary GRI, LSE, 2020. 
• Rural households in Bangladesh are shouldering the country’s climate burden, The Daily Star October 25, 2019.
• How businesses in sub-Saharan Africa are adapting to climate change. LSE Business Review 2018.

Dissemination

2023:

• Southern Economic Association (SEA) Conference, Nov 18-20, New Orleans, LA. (Scheduled)
• Science of Philanthropy Initiative (SPI) Conference, University of Chicago, Sep 20-21, 2023. (Scheduled)
• Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University, 6 July 2023.
• Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 29 May 2023.
• Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany, 5 April 2023.
• LSE Grantham Governance Lunch Seminar, London School of Economics, 30 January 2023.
• ADB Economists’ Forum 2023, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, 20 January 2023.

2022:

• Oxford Environmental Economics Seminar, University of Oxford, 14 November 2022.
• Special Issue Workshop: Climate Action through Policy Expansion and/or Dismantling, Mannheim, Germany, 19-21 October 2022.
• Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) Conference, University of Chicago, 8-9 June 2022.
• Why women are footing the bill for climate: lessons from Bangladesh, webinar by IIED, May 19, 2022

2021:

• UK-China Workshop on Energy and Climate Change Economics, December 3-4, 2021, University College London, London, UK
• Southern Economic Association (SEA) Conference, Nov 20-22, Houston, TX. (virtual)
• Climate Adaptation Research Symposium, UCLA, September 8-9 (virtual)
• Jinhe Center of Economic Research, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (January 2021).

2020:

• 2nd NBER Environmental & Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, May 21, 2020
• Gender inequalities in social protection – people, households and climate adaptation, April 2020, Panelist

2019:

• 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference, Kingston University, June 2019. Best paper award
• Economic Growth, Development & Economic Stability, May 2019, Swansea University, UK
• 2nd Int’l Conference on Climate Finance, March 2019, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Keynote Speaker
• AEA/ASSA Annual Conference, Jan 4-6, Atlanta, GA

2018:

• Southern Economic Association (SEA) Conference, Nov 18 – 20, Washington, D.C
• AEA/ASSA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA

2017:

• Asian Development Review Conference on Climate Change, Seoul, Rep. of Korea
• International Development Research Council (IDRC) Brown Bag Seminar, Ottawa, ON
• Canadian Economic Association (CEA) Annual Conference, Antigonish, NS
• Association of Environment and Resource Economists (AERE) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
• AEA/ASSA Conference (Chicago, IL)

2016:

• Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Conference (Boston, MA)
• Association of Environment & Resource Economists Conference (Breckenridge, CO)
• University of Wyoming College of Business, Laramie, WY (Invited Speaker)
• Asian Development Outlook Update (ADOU) Workshop (Manila, Philippines)

2014:

• Southern Economic Association Conference (Atlanta, GA)
• Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference (Denver, CO)

2008:

• Asia Pacific Regional Conference on ODA in Education (Manila, Philippines)

2004:

• First South Asian Economics Students’ Meet (New Delhi, India)