Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam Professor, Department of Economics
PROFILE
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Jahangirnagar University. He completed B.Sc(Hons.) and M.Sc in Economics from the Department of Economics, Jahangirnagar University. Later, he completed his M.Sc and PhD from IDEC, Hiroshima University, Japan. His home district is Jamalpur.
His research area mainly focused on renewable energy, sustainable development, food security, and energy policy.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Renewable energy and Sustainable development
JOURNAL PAPER
Mohammad Lutfor Rahman, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Effectiveness of Immunization on Life Expectancy: A difference-in -difference Approach, Management Development, 34, pp.20-24, 2022.Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman, Determinants of Household Energy Use in Bangladesh, Management Development, 33, pp.1-18, 2022.
Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Mohammad Lutfor Rahman, Remittances, Expenditure, and Investment in Household Level: An Evidence from Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 31, pp.147-155, 2020.
Mohammad Lutfor Rahman, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Effects of Interest rates and Inflation Rates on Stock Price Volatility: A Granger Causality Approach, Jahangirnagar Review, XLV, pp.1-15, 2021.
Shahadat Hosan, Kanchan Kumar Sen, Md. Matiar Rahman, Andrew J. Chapman, Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Mohammad Jahangir Alam,Bidyut Baran Saha, Energy innovation funding and social equity: Mediating role of just energy transition, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 197, 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2024.114405
Alam, M. J.; Rahman, M. L.; and Hussain, M. A., FDI in Natural Resources and Development: A Case Study of Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Science, XXXII, pp.61-69, 2008 (printed in June 2009).
Alam, M. J.; Rahman, M. L., An empirical study on food availability and food security: Perspective Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Science, XXXIII, pp.325-330, 2009(printed in June 2012).
Rahman, M. L.; Alam, M. J., Financial Development and Economic Growth: Further Evidence from Bangladesh, 20, 2009.
Islam, M. S.; Alam, M. J., Education and Economic Growth: A Micro and Macro Level Empirical Study in Bangladesh, 21, 2010.
Alam, M. J.; Rahman, M. M.; and Kaneko, S., The decreasing trend of agricultural land in Bangladesh: Myth and facts, The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 26, pp.85-96, 2015.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The linkage between sources of lighting and earnings in Bangladesh: An empirical study, The Jahangirnagar Economic Review, 28, pp.111-127, 2017.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., Technology innovation and Changes of SHS Packages in Rural Bangladesh, The Jahangirnagar Review, Part II: Social Science, Vol. XLII, 2018.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The Effects of Electrification on School Enrollment in Bangladesh: Short-and Long-Run Perspectives, Energies, 12, 4, pp.629, 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/en12040629
Alam, M. J; Kloepfer, T. and Kaneko, S., Wage inequality in Bangladesh, 2000–2010: an unconditional quantile regression decomposition, Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, pp.1-18, 2019. doi: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080/16081625.2019.1600420
CONFERENCE PAPER
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The impact of Solar Home System (SHS) on educational outcome in rural Bangladesh, JASID Conference, Hiroshima University, Japan, 2018.Hiroshi, Z.; Alam, M. J.; and Kaneko, S., Exploring New Applications of Future Organic PV in Non-electrified Areas, International Conference of Grand Renewable Energy, Yokohama, Japan, 2018.
Alam, M. J.; Kaneko, S., The Impact of Electricity on School Enrollment in Bangladesh- A Propensity Score Matching Analysis, 16th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Naha, Japan, 2017.
BOOK CHAPTER
Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Examine the impact of solar home system (SHS) on rural livelihood in Bangladesh, Contemporary issues in social sciences, pp.191-196, 2022.Teaching
Course Code | Course Title | Semester/Year |
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ECON307 | Political Economy of Underdevelopment, Gender and Poverty | 3rd Year |
ECON501 | Microeconomics | Masters student |
Academic Info
Period: 2014-2016
M.Sc
Period: 2016-2019
PhD
Contact
Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam
Professor
Department of Economics
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: +8801716584127
Email: alamjahangireco@juniv.edu
, alamjahangireco@gmail.com