Department of Economics

Faculty of Science

Dozie Okoye

Department of Economics

Email: Cokoye@Dal.Ca
Phone: 902-494-4453
Mailing Address:

Department of Economics
Dalhousie University
6214 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2

Research Topics:

Economic Growth and Development, History and Economic Development in Africa, Macroeconomics, Human Capital and Technology Adoption

2013 - Present, Macroeconomic Theory (Masters in Development Economics) Public Finance
2015 - Present, Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective Intermediate Macroeconomics
2015, Faculty Participant, PhD Topics Course in Applied Microeconomics
2013 - 2015, Introductory Macroeconomics for International Development Studies

Summer Institute for Economic Research, African School of Economics (ASE), Cotonou, Benin

University of Western Ontario

2016 Research Development Fund Grant for Climate Change and Farmer-Herder Conicts, $3500
2014 Albert Berry Prize for Best CEA Conference Paper in Development Economics by a Junior Scholar for Things Fall Apart: Missions, Institutions, and Trust, $1000
2013 Dalhousie Faculty of Science Start-up Grant

Appropriate Technology and Income Di_erences, International Economic Review, 2016, 57(3): 955-996
Can Brain Drain Be Good for Human Capital Growth? Evidence from Cross-Country Skill Premiums and Education Costs, Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 49(March): 74-99
Economic Growth, Health Care Reform, and Child Nutrition in Ghana (with Jemima Fimpong, Johns Hopkins and Roland Pongou, University of Ottawa), Journal of African Development, 2016, 18(2): 41-60

Ph.D. Economics, University of Western Ontario, 2013
B.A. Honors Specialization in Economics (With Distinction) University of Western Ontario, 2008