Sirazum Munira Haque
Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Economics | Auburn University
Labor Economics · Economics of Crime · Public Economics
I am on the 2026–27 academic job market.
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Economics at Auburn University. I use quasi-experimental methods and administrative data to study how criminal justice institutions and public policies shape individual behavior and economic outcomes.
My job market paper uses novel individual-level administrative data from Florida's Eighth Judicial Circuit to study the causal effects of adult pre-arrest diversion. I examine how access to an alternative to traditional criminal case processing affects subsequent criminal justice outcomes.
More broadly, my current projects study diversion policy and fees, social safety-net policy and crime, and labor-market regulation.
M.S. in Financial Economics, Illinois State University
M.B.A. and B.B.A. in Finance, University of Dhaka