2025
Akter, S. (forthcoming) 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]