Hi, I'm Shaibu, a PhD in Economics student.

Primary Research Interests: Public Economics, Macro-Development Economics, Resource Economics

Secondary Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, Statistics, Labor Economics

Contact: profshaiy@gmail.com

My research investigates how economic structures mediate the impact of major macroeconomic shocks. Whether analyzing aggressive fiscal reforms in the U.S. or natural resource discoveries in Sub-Saharan Africa, I am driven by a central puzzle: Why do identical incentives or windfalls generate divergent outcomes across different economies? My work combines modern causal inference methods, specifically Synthetic Control and Difference-in-Differences, with structural characterization techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Vector Autoregression (VAR).

Education

I am currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Northern Illinois University. Prior to this, I have obtained two master's degrees from Ohio University. The first one is in Applied Economics, and the second one in Information and Telecommunication Systems.

Latest Research:

[1] Dutch Disease and Structural Transformation: Synthetic Control Evidence from Ghana's Oil Discovery