Abegaz, Melaku

Melaku Abegaz

Assistant Professor-Economics

Start Year: 2020

Economics
Office: 320b South Hall
Phone:

Email: melaku.abegaz@uwrf.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2016
M.S. Addis Ababa University, 2008
B.A. Addis Ababa University, 2006
 

Courses Taught:

Econ 201, Principles of Microeconomics 
Econ 202, Principles of Macroeconomics
Econ 226, Introduction to Statistics 
Econ 326, Analytics for Business and Economics 
Econ 340, Contemporary International Trade 
Econ 301, Intermediate Microeconomics 
Econ 411, Health Care Economics and Policy 
Econ 426, Econometrics 

Research Interests:

Applied Microeconomics, Trade, Development, and Labor
 

Publications:

 

Research in progress: 

• Fikru, M., Abegaz, M., & Nguyen, N. The Impact of Cleaner and Greener Technologies on Residential Property Values in the US.  
• Abegaz, M., Nene, G. Wages and Agglomeration Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa Manufacturing and Service Sectors. 
• Fikru, M., Shen, T., & Abegaz, M. Co-Location of Carbon Capture Projects with Pollution Intensive Manufacturing: Evidence from US Zip Codes. 

Book Chapters: 

• Abegaz, M., Nene, G. (2022). Gender Wage and Employment Gaps in the Sub-Saharan African Economic Sectors. In: Wamboye, E.F., Fayissa, B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors.. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Refereed Journal Articles: 

• Abegaz, M., & Ngoboka, P. (2023). Households’ entry into non-farm entrepreneurship and the market exit of enterprises in rural Ethiopia. International Journal of Social Economics. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-09-2022-0611 
• Abegaz, M., Nene, G. (2023). Gender wage and productivity gaps in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector. Journal of Applied Economics, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15140326.2022.2160139
• Abegaz, M., Nene, G. (2022). Export Agglomeration Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa Manufacturing and Service Sectors. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 84, 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2022.01.005
• Abegaz, M., Eftekari, H. (2022). Gender Achievement Gap in National Secondary Education Examination in Ethiopia. International Journal of Social Economics, 49(8), 1195 – 1212. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-09-2021-0564
• Abegaz, M., Nene, G. (2021). The effect of small business entrepreneurship on poverty: evidence from US rural counties. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 42(3), 335 - 347. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2021.113204
• Abegaz, M., Lahiri, S. (2021). Efficiency Spillovers from FDI and Domestic Exporting Firms: The Case of Ethiopian Manufacturing. Journal of International Development, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3517
• Abegaz, M., Lahiri, S. (2020). Entry and Survival in the Export Market: Spillovers from Foreign and Outward-Looking Domestic Firms in Ethiopia. European Journal of Development Research, 32(4), 847-872. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-019-00242-2
• Abegaz, M., Lahiri, S., Morshed, A. K. M. Mahbub (2020). Does the presence of international students improve domestic graduations in the US? The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 75, 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2019.05.008
• Abegaz, M., Nene, G. (2018). Gender Wage and Productivity Gaps in the Manufacturing Industry. The Case of Ghana. Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 37(3), 313-326.

Working paper:

• Abegaz, M. T. (2013). Total factor productivity and technical efficiency in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector. EDRI Working Paper 10. Ethiopian Development Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.