Reshad Osmani

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance, Louisiana State University (LSU) Shreveport.

I earned my PhD in Economics, with a focus on Health and Labor Economics, from the University of Memphis in December 2019 as a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship.


Student's comment: "Dr. Osmani made learning ECON a walk in the park."

Publications

⇰ The Role of Digital Governance Instruments and Internet Usage on Government Stability and Regime Durability (with Nasr  Elbahnasawy and Timothy Shaughnessy), Applied Economics, Forthcoming.


⇰ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health among Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors in the US  (with Asako Moriya and Shelley White-Means), Health Services Research, forthcoming.


⇰ The Affordable Care Act and Racial Disparities in Healthcare Utilization: New Evidence from Employer Mandate (with Md Mohsan Khudri), The Review of Black Political Economy, forthcoming.


⇰ Determinants of unhealthy BMI among Women of Childbearing Age in Bangladesh

 (with Md Mohsan Khudri & Albert Okunade), Journal of Population Research, September 2024.


⇰ The Organizational Impact of Presenteeism among Key Healthcare Workers due to the COVID-19 Pandemic ( with Shelley I. White Means & Carol L. Warren), The Review of Black Political Economy, March 2022.

⇰ Children's Health Capital Investment: Effects of U.S. Infant Breastfeeding on Teenage Obesity (with Albert Okunade, Toluwalope Ayangbayi & Adeyinka Okunade), Econometrics,  December 2021.

⇰ Conditional Cash Incentive and Use of Health Care Services: New Evidence from a Household Experiment,  Journal of Family and Economic Issues, August 2021.

⇰ A Double-Hurdle Model of Healthcare Expenditures across Income Quintiles and Family Size: New Insights from a household Survey (with Albert Okunade), Journal of Risk and Financial Management, July  2021.

⇰ Effects of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth: New Results Using the Flexible Box-Cox Power Transformation Model (with Albert Okunade), Applied Economics Letters, October 2020.

⇰ Cancer Survivors in the Labor Market: Evidence from Recent US Micro-Panel Data (with Albert Okunade), Economic Modelling, August 2019. 

⇰ Job Market Prospects of Breast v/s Prostate Cancer Survivors in the US: A Double-Hurdle Model of Ethnic Disparities ( with Shelley I. White-Means), Journal of Family and Economic Issues, June 2019.

⇰ Intervention and Public Policy Pathways to Achieve Health Care Equity (with Shelley I. White-Means & Darrell J. Gaskin), Health Economics section, IJERPH, July 2019.

⇰ Technology, Productivity and Costs in Healthcare (with Albert Okunade), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, August 2018. 

⇰ Affordable Care Act and Disparities in Health Services Utilization among Ethnic Minority Breast Cancer Survivors: Evidence from Longitudinal MEPS 2008-2015 (with Shelley White-Means), Health Economics section, IJERPH, September 2018.

⇰ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient-Provider Communication With Breast Cancer Patients: Evidence From 2011 MEPS and Experiences With Cancer Supplement (with Shelley White-Means), INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, August 2017.


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