Short Bio
Current Position: Statistics Research Assistant at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Conflict Patterns and Environments.
Educational background: Economics, Environmental Science, and Geomatics.
Working experience: Research Assistant at the University of Oslo Department of Political Science. Teaching at Mekelle University.
Interested in Applied Econometrics, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. Self-taught in R, Python, and SQL.
Publications
Klugman, Jeni; Siri Aas Rustad; Kaja Borchgrevink; Solomon Negash & Marianne Dahl (2022) Women, Peace and Security Index 2021/22, GPS Policy Brief, 3. Oslo: PRIO.
Klugman, Jeni; Milorad Kovacevic; Michael Gottschalk; Elena Ortiz; Jimena Diaz; Varsha Thebo; Isha Raj-Silverman; Jiaqi Zhao; Siri Aas Rustad; Solomon Negash; & Kaja Borchgrevink (2021) Women, Peace, and Security Index 2021/22: Tracking Sustainable Peace through Inclusion, Justice, and Security for WomenWashington, D.C.: GIWPS and PRIO.
Gjerløw, Haakon & Solomon Negash (2021) The State of Democracy among Norway’s Partner Countries in Development Policy, Conflict Trends, 7. Oslo: PRIO.
Sample Work
Skills
Work Experience
Research Assistant
University of Oslo
I was a memeber of the Historical V-Dem team and an RA for Prof. Carl Henrik Knutsen. Mainly responsible for coding historical data pertaining to various indicators of political institutions such as national legislatures, types of regional and local governments, election types, dates of elections, etc. Also assisted with data management and analysis 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.
Teaching
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.