2025
Akter, S. & Grafton, R. Q. (forthcoming) Socio-economic Well-being Losses of Australia’s Black Summer Fires (2019-20): Burdens by Burned Areas, Poverty and Gender. One Earth.
Akter, S. (2025) Climate Resilient Development for Agriculture and Pathways for Gender Inclusivity. Agricultural Economics.
2024
Manero, A., Adamowicz, W., Akter, S., Spencer-Cotton, A., Coombes, P. J., Wyrwoll, P., ... & Grafton, R. Q. (2024). Benefits, costs and enabling conditions to achieve ‘water for all’ in rural and remote Australia. Nature Water, 1-10. [Open Access]
Akter, S., Chairunissa, T. F., & Pundit, M. (2024). Assessing “Invisible Loss” During Medium-Term Earthquake Recovery: The Case of Indonesia's 2016 Aceh Earthquakes. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 1-21. [Open Access]
2023
Akter, S., Mathew, N. M., Fila, M. (2023). The impact of an improvement in quality and reliability of rural residential electricity supply on clean cooking fuel adoption: Evidence from six energy poor Indian states. World Development. [Open Access]
Akter, S. (2023). Australia’s Black Summer wildfires recovery: A difference-in-differences analysis using nightlights. Global Environmental Change. [Open Access]
2022
Akter, S. (2022). The effects of food export restrictions on the domestic economy of exporting countries: A review. Global Food Security. [PDF]
Rustagi, N., Akter, S. (2022). The impact of women's political representation on child health outcomes during 1990-2020: Evidence from a global dataset. Social Science & Medicine. [PDF]
Akter, S., Pratap, C. (2022). Impact of clean cooking fuel adoption on women's welfare in India: The mediating role of women's autonomy. Sustainability Science. [Open Access]
2021
Akter, S., Bagchi, K. (2021). Is off-grid residential solar power inclusive? Solar power adoption, energy poverty, and social inequality in India. Energy Research & Social Science. [Open Access]
Akter, S. (2021) Do catastrophic floods change the gender division of labor? Panel data evidence from Pakistan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. [Open Access]
Akter, S., Grafton, R. Q. (2021) Do fires discriminate? Socio-economic disadvantage, wildfire hazard exposure and the Australian 2019–20 ‘Black Summer’ fires. Climatic Change. [Open Access]
2020
Akter, S. (2020). The link between a husband’s trust in informal institutions and domestic violence against his wife: Evidence from Pakistan. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. [PDF]
Akter, S. (2020). The gender gap in COVID-19 mortality in the United States. Feminist Economics. [PDF]
Akter, S., Francis-Tan, A. (2020). Partners or rivals? Exploring the relationship between men's and women's empowerment in Bangladesh. Journal of Development Studies. [PDF]
Savary, S., Akter, S., Almekinders, C., Harris, J., Korsten, L., Rötter, R., Waddington, S. and Watson, D. (2020). Mapping disruption and resilience mechanisms in food systems. Food Security, pp.1-23. [Open Access]
Akter, S. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 related ‘stay-at-home’ restrictions on food prices in Europe: findings from a preliminary analysis. Food Security. [Open Access]
Akter, S. (2020). Social cohesion and willingness to pay for cyclone risk reduction: The case for the coastal embankment improvement project in Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. [Open Access]
Akter, S., Erskine, W., Spyckerelle, L. et al. (2020). The impact of women’s access to agricultural extension on cropping practices in Timor-Leste. Food Security [PDF]
2019
Akter, S. (2019). Impact of drinking water salinity on children's education: Empirical evidence from coastal Bangladesh. Science of The Total Environment, 690, 1331-1341. [PDF]
Akter, S., Chindarkar, N. (2019). An empirical examination of sustainability of women’s empowerment using panel data from India. Journal of Development Studies, 1-17. [PDF]
Akter, S., Cindarkar, N. (2019). Mothers’ vulnerability to intimate partner violence and children’s human capital in India. Social Science Research, 78, 187‒202. [PDF]
2017
Akter, S., Krupnik, T. J., Khanam, F. (2017). Climate change skepticism and index versus standard crop insurance demand in coastal Bangladesh, Regional Environmental Change, 17(8), 2455‒2466. [Open Access]
Akter, S., Rutsaert, P., Luis, J., Htwe, N. M., San, S. S., Raharjo, B., Pustika, A. (2017). Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture: A different perspective from Southeast Asia, Food Policy, 69, 270‒279. [Open Access]
2016
Nikolakis, W., Akter, S., Nelson, H. (2016). The effect of communication on individual preferences for common property resources: A case study of two Canadian First Nations, Land Use Policy, 58, 70‒82. [PDF]
Akter, S., Krupnik, T., Rossi, F., Khanam, F. (2016). The influence of gender and product design on farmers’ preferences for weather-indexed crop insurance, Global Environmental Change, 38: 217–229. [Open Access]
2015
Akter, S., Kompas, T., Ward, M. B. (2015). Application of portfolio theory to asset-based biosecurity decision analysis. Ecological Economics, 117, 73-85. [PDF]
2014
Akter, S., Grafton, R. Q., Merritt, W. S. (2014). Integrated hydro-ecological and economic modeling of environmental flows: Macquarie Marshes, Australia. Agricultural Water Management, 145, 98-109. [PDF]
Akter, S., Basher, S. A. (2014). The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Global Environmental Change, 25, 150-162. [PDF]