Silas Amo-Agyei

Silas is an applied microeconomist and Research Officer with Young Lives. He supports the study’s Round 8 data collection across Ethiopia, India and Peru and contributes to its Research Hub on Climate Change and Environmental Shocks. His research covers health, labour and development economics, with work on welfare reform and population health, and on ageing and subjective wellbeing. His work has been published in leading field journals, including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Economics & Human Biology.

Before joining ODID, Silas was a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, where he remains an Honorary Research Fellow in health economics. He has also held policy and evaluation roles at the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization and UNHCR in Geneva.

Silas holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne, supervised by Professor Jürgen Maurer. He also holds an MSc in Economics from Lausanne and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Ghana.