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Sajeda Amin is affiliated with the Population Council in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio focused on social sciences and medicine. Their work predominantly addresses topics related to global maternal and child health, poverty, education, child welfare, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, microfinance and financial inclusion, demographic trends and gender preferences, the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts, and migration, health, and trauma.

The scientist has published extensively in both main and subfields such as pediatrics, perinatology and child health, safety research, economics and econometrics, gender studies, and general health professions.

Recent notable publications include:

  • What Are the Drivers of Child Marriage? A Conceptual Framework to Guide Policies and Programs, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Child marriage practices among the Rohingya in Bangladesh, 2020, Conflict and Health
  • Perceptions of minimum age at marriage laws and their enforcement: qualitative evidence from Malawi, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • Adolescent girls' migration and its impact on early marriage: Qualitative findings in Mali, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Education, Child Marriage, and Work Outcomes Among Young People in Rural Malawi, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health

Sajeda Amin often collaborates with a set of frequent coauthors, including Andrea Melnikas, Eashita Haque, Grace Saul, Sigma Ainul, and Iqbal Ehsan. These collaborations have contributed to the breadth and depth of research outputs.

Their publications are frequently featured in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Adolescent Health, PLoS ONE, PubMed, and The Bangladesh Development Studies, with the highest number of publications appearing in Harvard Dataverse and the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Their work predominantly revolves around key issues affecting vulnerable populations, including child marriage, adolescent health, and the socio-economic factors that influence health and welfare outcomes globally.

Best Publications

  • Does microcredit reach the poor and vulnerable? Evidence from northern Bangladesh

    Sajeda Amin;Ashok S Rai;Giorgio Topa

  • The Poverty–Purdah Trap in Rural Bangladesh: Implications for Women's Roles in the Family

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  • Transition to Adulthood of Female Garment-factory Workers in Bangladesh

    Sajeda Amin;Ian Diamond;Ruchira T. Naved;Margaret Newby

  • The impact of an integrated micro-credit programme on women's empowerment and fertility behavior in rural Bangladesh

    Fiona Steele;Sajeda Amin;Ruchira Tabassum Naved

  • Spatial Variation in Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh: Looking Beyond the Borders

    Sajeda Amin;Alaka Malwade Basu;Rob Stephenson

  • Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought.

    Diane L. Wolf;Naila Kabeer

  • What Are the Drivers of Child Marriage? A Conceptual Framework to Guide Policies and Programs.

    Stephanie R. Psaki;Andrea J. Melnikas;Eashita Haque;Grace Saul

  • Immunization uptake in rural Bangladesh : a multilevel analysis

    Fiona Steele;Ian Diamond;Sajeda Amin

  • Women's Capabilities and the Right to Education in Bangladesh

    Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning;Sajeda Amin

  • Conditioning factors for fertility decline in Bengal: history language identity and openness to innovations.

    Alaka Malwade Basu;Sajeda Amin

  • Savings/credit group formation and change in contraception.

    Fiona Steele;Sajeda Amin;Ruchira T. Naved

  • Family structure and change in rural Bangladesh

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  • Does dowry improve life for brides? A test of the bequest theory of dowry in rural Bangladesh.

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  • School Incentive Programs and Children’s Activities: The Case of Bangladesh

    Mary Arends‐Kuenning;Sajeda Amin

  • Incentive schemes for school attendance in rural Bangladesh

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  • Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of Selection Bias Influences

    Ashish Bajracharya;Sajeda Amin

  • Education, wage work, and marriage: Perspectives of Egyptian working women

    Sajeda Amin;Nagah H. Al-Bassusi

  • The effects of schooling incentive programs on household resource allocation in Bangladesh

    Mary Arends-Kuenning;Sajeda Amin

  • Women's Lives and Rapid Fertility Decline: Some Lessons From Bangladesh and Egypt

    Sajeda Amin;Cynthia B. Lloyd

  • Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought.

    Sajeda Amin;Naila Kabeer

  • Contraception and Religiosity in Bangladesh

    S Amin;I Diamond;FA Steele

  • The Determinants of Reproductive Change in Bangladesh: Success in a Challenging Environment.

    Geoffrey McNicoll;John Cleland;James F. Phillips;Sajeda Amin

  • Delaying child marriage through community-based skills-development programs for girls. Results from a randomized controlled study in rural Bangladesh.

    Sajeda Amin;Johana Ahmed;Jyotirmoy Saha;Md. Irfan Hossain

  • Poverty marriage timing and transitions to adulthood in Nepal: a longitudinal analysis using the Nepal Living Standards Survey.

    Ashish Bajracharya;Sajeda Amin

  • Wage work and marriage: perspectives of Egyptian working women.

    Sajeda Amin;Nagah H. Al-Bassusi

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara S. Mensch
Barbara S. Mensch Population Council
John Cleland
John Cleland London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Rob Stephenson
Rob Stephenson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Cynthia B. Lloyd Population Council
James F. Phillips
James F. Phillips Columbia University
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer London School of Economics and Political Science

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