Tonmoy Islam
Associate Professor of Economics
Department: Economics
Email: tislam@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-5297
News & Notes
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (August, 2012)
M.A., Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (May, 2008)
B.A., Business Administration and Economics, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY (May, 2006)
Employment History
Associate Professor of Economics, Elon University, Elon, NC (Fall, 2022 - present, tenured)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Elon University, Elon, NC (Fall, 2014 - Spring, 2022)
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Green Bay, WI (Fall, 2012 - Winter, 2014)
Short-term Consultant, The World Bank, Washington, DC (2012; 2016-18; 2022-23)
Courses Taught
COR1100: The Global Experience
ECO 1000: Principles of Economics (in-class and online)
ECO 2300: Statistics for Decision-making (in-class and online)
ECO 3300: Introduction to Econometrics
ECO 4210: Urban Economics and Planning
ECO 4998: Advanced Research in Economics
HNR 4998: Honors Thesis Research
MBA/MSBA 6430: Analytics I: Quantitative Methods (in-class and online)
Publications
"The Relationship Between Income Inequality and Gentrification in US Urban Counties" forthcoming Review of Regional Studies
“Patriarchy and Child Well-Being: Evidence from India” (with Shabana Mitra and Morgan Kearns) Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. Vol. 7. September, 2024: 294-308
“Military Dictatorships and the Provision of Public Goods” (with Shabana Mitra) Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 51 Issue 3, 2023: 307-321
“Precautionary Savings and Rural-to-Urban Migration: Evidence from Chinese Hukou Status” (with Guowen Chen and Steve DeLoach) Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Vol 31, Issue 4. October 2023: 1215-1233
“Home-based Work Decisions among Bangladeshi Women” (with Aphichoke Kotikula) Asian Development Review Vol. 40, No. 1, March, 2023: 79-111
“Despairing Communities in the United States” (with Tom Tiemann) Economics Bulletin, Vo1. 42, Issue 3, 2022
“College Readiness, Early Post-Secondary Academic Performance and the GED Degree: Evidence from Kentucky” (with Katy Rouse) The BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. Vol. 22, No. 1, 2022: 67-98
“International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia.” (with David Newhouse and Monica Yanez-Pagans) Asian Development Review. Vol 38. No. 1, March, 2021
-Also available as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8683
“The impact of population agglomeration of an area on its neighbors: evidence from the USA” Annals of Regional Science. Vol 65, Issue 1, August 2020: 1-26
“Multidimensional Human Opportunity Index” (with Shabana Mitra) Social Indicators Research. vol 130, Issue 2, January 2017: 523-535
“Investigating Inequality of Income in the United States” Journal of Income Distribution. Vol. 25, No. 3-4, 2016
“Estimating the Elasticity of Growth in the US Using the Generalized Means of Income” Social Indicators Research. Volume 129, Issue 3, October, 2016: 95-112
“On Persistent Poverty in a Rich Country” (with Jenny Minier and James Ziliak) Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 81, Issue 3. January, 2015: 653-678
“An Exercise to Evaluate an Anti-Poverty Program with Multiple Outcomes Using Program Evaluation” Economics Letters, Vol. 122, No. 2. February, 2014: 365-369
“Childhood Neighborhood Conditions and the Persistence of Adult Income” Regional Science and Urban Economics Vol. 43, No. 4. July, 2013: 684-693
Awards
Post-Tenure Sabbatical, Elon University (Spring, 2024)
Dean’s Award in the Excellence of Service, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, Elon University (Spring, 2023)
Dean’s Award in the Excellence of Teaching, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, Elon University (Spring, 2021)
Love School of Business Summer Research Award, Elon University (Summer, 2018) - $3,750 grant (with Brandon Sheridan)
Faculty Research and Development Summer Fellowship, Elon University (Summer, 2017) – $8,700 grant
Best Practices in Writing Pedagogy Grant, Center for Writing Excellence, Elon University (Spring, 2017) - $1,000 grant
Faculty Research and Development Summer Fellowship, Elon University (Summer, 2016) – $8,000 grant
Best Practices in Writing Pedagogy Grant, Center for Writing Excellence (with Jennifer Platania, Katy Rouse and Douglas Redington), Elon University (Spring, 2016) - $4,000 grant
New Faculty Summer Research Fund, Elon University (Summer, 2015) - $4,500 grant
Love School of Business Summer Research Award, Elon University (Summer, 2015) - $3,000 grant
Teaching Sabbatical, Elon University (Fall, 2015)