Fellows

PICAIS welcomes Dr. Edward Asiedu as first fellow in 2022

We are pleased to award the first PICAIS Research-in-Residence Fellowship to Dr. Edward Asiedu from the University of Ghana. He will be visiting the University of Passau for 6 months starting in April 2022.

Dr. Edward Asiedu

Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School (Development Finance Unit) and the Affiliate Faculty, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS)

Research interests

Behavioral and development economics, economics of crime and corruption, gender and small enterprise development, impact of culture and history on economic outcomes, agricultural economics

Project Proposal

The Effect of Poverty on Children’s Behaviour. Field Experiments in Ghanaian Villages

Education

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Development Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany, Thesis Title: Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

M. A., Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

B.Sc., University of Ghana, Legon– Ghana

Further details

Website

Fellowship

6 months, April – September 2022

Host

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm (Chair Development Economics)