Nusrat Sharmin is a third-year Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Oklahoma. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Economics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. Her research interests include environmental economics, development economics, and health economics. Her research focuses on how environmental shocks and public policies shape economic outcomes, human welfare, and inequality.
She is also a Graduate Research Assistant on the NSF-funded Good Fire project, examining the economic implications and policy trade-offs of prescribed fire and wildfire management.
Her current research examines how exposure to tropical cyclones affects gender disparities in early-life survival in Bangladesh, with particular attention to differences in vulnerability across socioeconomic groups. Her research in the United States focuses on wildfire management policies, including how the 2022 U.S. Forest Service prescribed-fire pause affected preventive fuel-treatment activities and their subsequent recovery.
She is a recipient of the prestigious Dodge Family Graduate Fellowship (2024–2029) from the University of Oklahoma's Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, a competitive five-year award recognizing academic excellence and research potential.
Name: Nusrat Sharmin
Position: Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics
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