Tauhidur Rahman is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. He is also a faculty member of Institute of the Environment; Program on Economics, Law and the Environment; and Master's in Development Practice (MDP) program at the University of Arizona. He was a visiting professor of environmental law and economics at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway during fall 2011. He has been a consultant to the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). Currently, he is a consultant to Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) at the World Bank, Washington DC. His research works are broadly in the fields of development economics, health economics, and law and economics of the environment. His research focuses on issues such as the measurements of human well-being, effectiveness of environmental regulation, social capital, economics of crime, child and elderly health, child labor, affirmative action policies, conditional cash transfer programs, and gender empowerment.