Haseeb Ahmed

• CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Washington State University, Expected May 2018
  • Dissertation Title “Livestock Management, Human Health and Welfare in Agricultural Households“
  • Co-Advisors: Benjamin Cowan and Jonathan Yoder
• M.S. in Economics, Washington State University, 2014
  • Thesis Title “Education Aid and School Enrollment in Developing Countries“
  • Advisor: Philip Wandschneider
• B.S. in Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Fields of Interest

• Applied Econometrics
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• Health and Development Economics
  • Economics of Infectious Diseases (East Coast Fever, Antimicrobial Resistance)

Publications

• Ahmed, H., Call, D.R., Quinlan, R.J., and J. Yoder. (2018) “Relationships between livestock grazing practices, disease risk, and antimicrobial use among East African Agropastoralists.” Environment and Development Economics 23(1): 80-97.

Working Papers

• Ahmed, H., and Cowan, B.W. “Mobile Money and Healthcare Use: Evidence from East Africa“
• Ahmed, H. and Delmond, A. “Can Free-Riding be Beneficial? Optimal Antimicrobial Use under Free-Riding and Resistance Externalities.” (Under Review)
• Ahmed, H., Davis, A., de Glanville, W., Cleaveland, S., Kibona, T., and J.K. Yoder. “Risk Management, Disease Losses and Herd Accumulation in Livestock-dependent Households of Northern Tanzania” (Under Review)

Work in Progress

• Ahmed, H., Cowan, B.W., and Yoder, J. “Tick Control Technology and Off-Farm Labor Supply in Rural Kenya.”
• Ahmed, H., and P.R. Wandschneider. “Enrollment Rates, Gender Gap and the Role of Education Aid”.

Teaching Experience

Instructor — Washington State University

• EconS 101 – Fundamentals of Microeconomics (Summer, Fall 2016 and Spring 2017)

Teaching Assistant — Washington State University

• EconS 301 – Intermediate Microeconomics Theory with Calculus with Robert Rosenman (Spring 2015, 2016)
  • Responsible for developing parts of the homework assignments and exams.
  • Responsible for weekly recitations.

Research Experience

Research Assistant 

• Dr. Jonathan K. Yoder on Social, Environmental and Economic Drivers of Zoonosis in Tanzania – Summer 2017 – Present.
• Dr. Robert Rosenman – Developed resources for EconS 301 – Intermediate Microeconomics Theory with Calculus – Summer 2015.

Presentations

• 91st WEAI Conference, 2016
  “Enrollment Rates, Gender Gap and the Role of Education Aid” in session on Education, Race and Gender. Portland, OR.
• “Tick Control Technology and Off-Farm Labor Supply in Rural Kenya” presentation at Washington State University, School of Economic Sciences Seminar Series, September 15, 2017.
• “Risk Management, Disease Losses and Herd Accumulation in Livestock-dependent Households of East Africa” in One-Heath Conference, University of Saskatchewan, 22-25 June 2018 (expected).

Skills

• Statistical Softwares 
  • STATA
  • R
  • Working knowledge of Gauss
  • Working knowledge of Mathematica
• Word Processing
  • Scientific WorkPlace
  • Word

Scholarships and Awards

• Arnold and Julia Greenwell Memorial Scholarship for Social Sciences – 2017
• WSU Class of 07-09 Scholarship – 2016
• Fulbright Fellow for Masters in Economics, 2013-2014.

Professional Service

• Book Review: Advanced Microeconomic Theory: An Intuitive Approach with Examples, Felix Munoz-Garcia, MIT Press, 2017.
• Secretary Graduate Student Association, School of Economic Sciences, WSU 2017.
• President, Pakistan Student Association, WSU 2016.

References

• Benjamin W. Cowan (Advisor), Assistant Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, ben.cowan@wsu.edu
• Jonathan K. Yoder, Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, WA 99163, yoder@wsu.edu
• Philip R. Wandschneider, Professor Emeritus, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, WA 99163, pwandschneider@wsu.edu
• Thomas L. Marsh, Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, WA 99163, tl_marsh@wsu.edu
• Robert Rosenman (Teaching Reference), Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, WA 99163, yamaka@wsu.edu