Investigating microeconometric and policy issues focusing on price elasticities, cost of living indices, poverty, Engel curves and returns to schooling.
Representative Publications
(Forthcoming) ROSCAs in Urban Ethiopia: Are the characteristics of the institutions more important than that of members?, Journal of Development Studies (With G. Ibrahim)
(2009) Health and Productivity: panel evidence from Ethiopia, African Development Review, Vol. 21(1): 59-72.
(2009), Measuring Individuals' Valuation Distributions using a Stochastic Payment Card Approach: application to solid waste management in Nigeria, Environment, Development and Sustainability (with Fonta et al), Vol. 11(3):509–521.
(2008) Simultaneous Random Effect Models of Poverty and Childbearing in Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of Economics (with Aassve and W/Gabriel), Vol. 14(2): 1-32.
(2007) "Quadratic Engel Curves with Measurement Error: Evidence from a Budget Survey", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, (with. S. Girma), Vol. 69 (1), 123–138.
(2006) Poverty and fertility in developing countries: a comparative analysis for Albania, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Vietnam, (with A. Aassve et al.) Population Review, Vol 45(2): 1-23.
(2005) Estimation of Own- and Cross-price Elasticities using Unit Values: Econometric Issues and Evidence from Urban Ethiopia’’ Journal of African Economies, vol. 14(1): 1-20.
(2005) “Heterogeneity in Returns to Schooling: Econometric Evidence from Ethiopia (with S. Girma), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41, No. 8: 1405-1416.
(2005) “Chronic Poverty in Urban Ethiopia: Panel Data Evidence” (with A. McKay), International Planning Studies, vol. 10 (1):49-67. (February).
(2005) “Understanding Urban Chronic Poverty: Crossing the Qualitative and Quantitative Divide, Environment and Urbanisation, vol. 17(2): October Issue.
Current Teaching
EC1006: IT for Economists
EC3061: Development Economics and Policy
EC7091: Quantitative Methods for Business and Finance
Current Administrative Duties
Member of the Undergraduate Staff Student Committee
Member of the Undergraduate Learning & Teaching Committee
Programme Co-ordinator for Undergraduate BSc Programmes
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