I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral prize fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, where I also obtained my DPhil (PhD). I am an associate member at Nuffield College and also affiliated with Young Lives, the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and the International Inequalities Institute.
I currently serve in my capacity as Associate Editor for European Societies, an editorial board member of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, and a member of the emerging scholar advisory board of Global Public Policy and Governance. I also co-organise the seminar series: Education Policy and Research in International Perspective hosted by EduHub, LSE Social Policy. You can sign up to participate or present at the online seminars here.
My research interests include social and educational inequalities, social mobility, sociology of education, and cross-border policy diffusion with a particular (but not exclusive) focus on emerging and developing economies.
Journal articles
Hossain, M. (2025). The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data from a Lower-Middle-Income Country. British Journal of Sociology. Open access
Witteveen, D., & Hossain, M. (2025). What drives immigrant inequalities in career growth during the age of mass migration? International Migration Review. Open access
Hossain, M., & Jukes, M. C. (2025). Gender Differences in Socioemotional Skills Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. Journal of Development Studies, 61(1), 21-39. Open access
Hossain, M. (2024). The Mismatch between World Bank Actions and the Decentralization of Educational Systems in LMICs. American Educational Research Journal, 61(3), 541-576. Open access
Hossain, M. (2024). Risk Factors Associated with Rohingya Refugee Girls’ Education in Bangladesh: A Multilevel Analysis of Survey Data. British Journal of Sociology, 75(4), 656–667. Open access
Hossain, M. (2024). Perceptions of key education actors towards PISA: The case of Scotland. Oxford Review of Education, 50(1), 113-130. Open access
Hossain, M. (2023). The linkage between school autonomy and inequality in achievement in 69 countries: Does development level matter? Journal of Development Studies, 59(10), 1491-1507. Open access
Hossain, M. (2023). Large-scale Data Gathering: Exploring World Bank’s Influence on National Learning Assessments in LMICs. International Journal of Educational Development, 102, 102877. Open access
Hossain, M. (2022). Diffusing "destandardization" reforms across educational systems in low- and middle-income countries: the case of the World Bank, 1965 to 2020. Sociology of Education, 95(4), 320–339. Open access
Hossain, M. (2021). Does Greater Community Involvement Mean More Parent-Teacher Interaction? Evidence from Seven Developing Countries. International Journal of Educational Development, 83, 102378. link pre-print
Hossain, M. (2021). Gender Differences in Experiencing Coronavirus-Triggered Economic Hardship: Evidence from Four Developing Countries. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 71, 100555. link free access
Hossain, M. (2021). Unequal Experience of COVID-Induced Remote Schooling in Four Developing Countries. International Journal of Educational Development, 85, 102446. open access pre-print
Hossain, M. (2021). COVID-19 and gender differences in mental health in low- and middle-income countries: Young working women are more vulnerable. SSM - Mental Health, 1, 100039. open access
Working papers
Hossain, M., & Beretta, M. Intergenerational Educational Mobility during the Twentieth Century. Pre-print and replication materials
Hossain, M., & Jukes, M. C. (2023). Gender differences in socioemotional skills among adolescents and young adults in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. Research Report, Oxford: Young Lives.
Reviews
Hossain, M. (2024). Review Symposium: A Political Sociology of Education Policy. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 46(2), 292–293. Link
Book chapters
Hossain, M. (2018). The Effects of Governance Reforms on School Supervision: An Analysis of Six Developing and Emerging Economies. Pp. 127-160 in Cross-nationally Comparative, Evidence-based Educational Policymaking and Reform, edited by Alexander W. Wiseman and Petrina Davidson. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. link
