Dr. Yonatan Dinku

Biography

Yonatan holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Otago and completed a master's in International Development Economics at the Australian National University. He has worked as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Bahir Dar University, where he taught Econometrics at the University of Otago. His expertise includes quantitative modeling and analysis of socioeconomic wellbeing. His PhD project involved the application of quasi-experimental designs such as instrumental variables estimation, propensity score matching, and fixed-effects estimation on large-scale longitudinal pooled-panel datasets to identify key determinants of child wellbeing and human capital. Since 2018, his research has focused on Indigenous outcomes in social policy areas such as employment, education, housing, and health wellbeing. Yonatan has been involved in major research evaluation projects funded by state and territory governments, commonwealth departments, and community-controlled organizations and has published extensively in leading academic journals including the Journal of Development Studies, Social Science & Medicine, and BMJ Global Health. His research interests lie in areas such as Indigenous wellbeing, human development, economics, and applied microeconomics.

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