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Ahmed Salim Nuhu
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Ahmed Salim Nuhu

Student Affairs Assessment Coordinator Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ahmedsalimnuhu/

INTRODUCTION

Salim is currently the GA for the Student Affairs Assessment Project. In this position, he is responsible for promoting a culture of assessment within the Division of Student Affairs at Eastern Illinois University and also overseeing the administration of assessment projects within the division. 

His current interests revolve around the application of econometric  methods in generating insight into big data, in the areas of health, poverty and inequality especially in developing areas. He is proficient in the use of STATA, SPSS and Excel. Before joining the HERC, Salim worked as a teaching assistant at the economics department at EIU, and as a treasury operations analyst at The Royal Bank in Ghana.  Salim devotes his spare time to building the leadership capacities of young people and has mentored over one hundred students at the Junior Young Leaders Conference in Washington DC and the Recycle Up Summer Camps in Ghana. He received his bachelors degree in economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, where he was a student leader and is currently working towards a graduate degree in economics.

Do you need assessment consultation or data analysed for your division? Please fill out the Assessment Consultation and Data Request form on http://castle.eiu.edu/sa-assessment/requestassessmentordata.php and we will be happy to respond to you!!

Education & Training

MA Economics (2017), Eastern Illinois University.

BA. Economics (2014), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology


Conference Presentations

2016 United Nations University, WIDER Conference on Human Capital and Growth, Helsinki Finland (Accepted Poster Presentation)

2016 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economics Association, Chicago

2016 Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Asia , EIU

Publications

(2016) What Has Failed: Microfinance or Evaluation Methods? (with Sefa Awaworyi),  forthcoming, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment Vol. 6, Issue 2 : pp. 85-94.

(2016) Intrahousehold Bargaining, Domestic Violence Laws and Child Health Development in Ghana,
Journal of Economic and Social Thought , Vol. 3, No. 1: pp. 126-138.

Working Papers 

(2016) Ethnic Diversity and Educational Attainments, Monash Business School Discussion Paper, (with Sefa Awaworyi Churchill)

(2016) On the Empirics of  Health User-Fees, Maternal Health-Seeking and Child Survival in Ghana, SSRN Working Paper

(2016) On The Non-Price Determinants of Household Cooking Energy Choice in Nepal, SSRN Working Paper

(2016)  Persistence of Gender Inequality: Role of Ethnic Diversity,  (with Sefa Awaworyi and Karely Lopez), SSRN Working Paper
 

Research & Creative Interests

Health Economics, Development Economics, Microeconomics, Economic Policy,

Editorial Assignments

Reviewer,  Applied Economic Letters, Publisher: Taylor and Franci
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Professional Affiliations

Midwest Economics Association
Missouri Valley Economics Association
Omricon Delta Epsilon