Professional Profile
Economist by profession with strong background in Environmental Science and Geomatics, and some background in political science.
Interested in Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics and Political Economy. Self taught in R, Python and SQL.
Sample Work
Skills
Work Experience
Research Assistant
University of Oslo
Was memeber of the Historical V-Dem team and an RA for Prof. Carl Henrik Knutsen. Was mainly responsible for coding historical data about various political institutions as national legislatures, dates and types of elections, as well as types of regional and local governments. Also assisted with data management for articles that are published in peer reviewed journals.
Dahlum, S., & Knutsen, C. H. (2017). Do Democracies Provide Better Education? Revisiting the Democracy–Human Capital Link. World Development, 94, 186-199.
Knutsen, C. H. (2015). Why democracies outgrow autocracies in the long run: Civil liberties, information flows and technological change. Kyklos, 68(3), 357-384.
Knutsen, C. H. (2015). Reinvestigating the reciprocal relationship between democracy and income inequality. Review of Economics and Institutions, 6(2), 37.
Knutsen, C. H. & Wegmann, S. (2016). Is democracy about redistribution? Democratization, 23:1, 164-192, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2015.1094460
Knutsen, C. H., Kotsadam, A., Olsen, E. H., & Wig, T. (2017). Mining and local corruption in Africa. American Journal of Political Science, 61(2), 320-334.
Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Knutsen, C. H., Lindberg, S. I., Skaaning, S. E., Teorell, J., … & Gjerløw, H. (2018). V-Dem Codebook v8.
Knutsen, C. H., Teorell, J., Cornell, A., Gerring, J., Gjerløw, H., Skaaning, S. E., … & Seim, B. (2018). Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century.
Lecturer
Mekelle University
One year teaching experience for undergraduate students at the department of Land Resource Management and Environmental Protection.
Various positions
Maichew Office of Agriculture
Six years working experience in various posts: Department head, Coordinator, SWC expert, and Field worker.
Education
Higher Education
Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) – Economics.
Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) – International Environmental Studies
University of Oslo (UIO) – Geomatics.
Mekelle University (MU) – Land Resource Management and Environmental Protection
Mekelle University (MU) – Economics
Ambo University – General Agriculture
Highschool
Axum Comprehensive School.