Journal Articles

1. Vaccine uptake and effectiveness: Why some African countries performed better than the others? Health Policy and Technology, 2023. With Abegaz, D., Nigus, H. Y., Argaw, T. L., Gerbaba, M., Genie, M. G., & Paolucci, F. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2023.100820

2. Vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: Impact on health and non-health outcomes in the US. Health Policy and Technology, 2023. With Khatiwada, A. P., Genie, M. G., Lai, T. C., Poudel, N., & Ngorsuraches, S.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2023.100792

3. The Impact of Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program on Children's Educational Aspirations and Attainments. Journal of African Economies, 2023. With Lodigiani, E., & Pasini, G. 

https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejad009

4. Hello, I am calling to ask for some money: Mobile phones and credit uptake in rural Ethiopia – 2020. African Journal of Economics and Management Studies.

 https://doi.org/10.1108/AJEMS-03-2019-0109 

5. Assessing Children’s Learning Outcomes: A Comparison of two cohorts from Young Lives Ethiopia – 2018. Ethiopian Journal of Education, Vol. XXXVI No.1 (June 2016). With Tassew Woldehanna (PhD) and Mesele W. Araya (PhD). http://ejol.ethernet.edu.et/index.php/EJE/article/view/840

6. Is Child Work Detrimental to the Educational Achievement of Children? Results from Young Lives in Ethiopia – 2017. Ethiopian Journal of Economics, Vol 26, No 1 (2017). With Tassew Woldehanna (PhD) and Mesele W. Araya (PhD).

 https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eje/article/view/177732

7. The characteristics and determinants of entrepreneurship in Ethiopia – 2015. Ethiopian Journal of Economics, Vol 24, No 1 (2015). With Wolday Amha (PhD), Tassew Woldehanna (PhD) and Eyoual Tamrat. 

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eje/article/view/137457

 Working in progress

1. Estimating the impact of the Ways‑to‑Wellbeing (W2W) Program on health outcomes and healthcare utilisation in the UK. With Benjamin Barr and Roberta Piroddi  

2. Old-age workers transition into retirement and risk of poverty: evidence from 25 European Union countries using SHARE data. With Giovanna Mazzeo Ortolani and Federico Biagi 

3. Violent conflicts and adolescent’s educational attendances and aspirations: Evidence from Ethiopia, chapter of PhD thesis. With Elisabetta Lodigiani, Giacomo Pasini and Tassew Woldehanna 

Book 

The status and determinants of Entrepreneurship in Ethiopia - 2014. With Wolday Amha (PhD), Tassew Woldehanna (PhD) and Eyoual Tamrat. 

Research Experience

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Public Health, Policy & Systems at the University of Liverpool

• Research Fellow, Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Economics, Venice (Italy) 

• Researcher, Policy Study Institute (formerly Ethiopian Development Research Institute), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 

• Consultant, World Bank Group, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Working as a Labour Economist - Advisor for the Ethiopian Jobs Creation Commission 

• Assistant Researcher (Full time), Policy Studies Institute (PSI) - RISE Ethiopia in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Producing working papers, managing data, Preparing reports 

• Research Assistant for Refugee Economies, the University of Oxford - Coordinated fieldwork, developed survey questionnaire, designed the questionnaire in SurveyCTO, analyzed collected data on an ongoing basis, and assisted qualitative research.