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.
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Journal articles and special issues( ) Gender pay gaps in nursing and midwifery: Evidence from cross-country comparative analysis . International Journal of Nursing Studies 182 105608( ) Impacts of the Universal Credit welfare reform on well-being: A natural experiment study using UK population survey data . BMJ Public Health 4 e003762( ) Impacts of livelihood empowerment programs on refugee wellbeing and economic inclusion: Evidence from Dollo Ado refugee camps in Ethiopia . World Development Perspectives 39 100720( ) The effect of health on the marginal utility of consumption: Evidence based on household consumption expenditure . Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 229 106809( ) Pain and subjective well-being among older adults in the developing world: A comprehensive assessment based on the WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health . Economics & Human Biology 54 101406( ) Missing the vulnerable - Inequalities in social protection in 13 sub-Saharan African countries: Analysis of population-based surveys . PLOS Global Public Health 4(7) e0002973
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Reports( ) Gender pay gap in the health and care sector in the WHO European Region: evidence brief . , WHO Regional Office for Europe( ) The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: A global analysis in the time of COVID-19 . , World Health Organization & International Labour Organization( ) The migrant pay gap: Understanding wage differences between migrants and nationals . , International Labour Office
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Working papers( ) The transition in play: Worldwide employment trends in the electricity sector . ILO Working Paper no. 28 , International Labour Office