Ka ga
Tiro ya me e mo makopanong a tlhabololo ya ikonomi, temothuo, bong le tekanyetso mo dinageng tse di tlhabologang. Ke dirisa dipatlisiso tse dikgolo tsa malapa le data ya geospatial go ithuta ka moo malapa, dipolase le mebaraka di dirang ka teng, segolobogolo mo maemong a data a tlhaelang kgotsa go leng thata go a kgobokanya. Ke amogetse PhD ya me kwa Graduate Institute kwa Geneva mme ke dirile ka data ya patlisiso kwa IFPRI, IMF le Banka ya Lefatshe.
Ke simolotse Dollar Scholars, motheo o o fanang ka thuto ya madi e e ikaegileng ka bosupi go bagolo ba ba ka tswang ba ise ba ke ba e fitlhelele. Gape ke ne ka aga website ya yone le dipotso tsa dipuo tse dintsi.
Pele ga ikonomi, ke ne ka fetsa dingwaga di le supa ke le mogakolodi wa eSports, ke bitsa dikgaisano tsa Counter-Strike le Warcraft III go tswa kwa Seoul go ya kwa Monza magareng ga 2004 le 2011. Ke sa ntse ke tshameka Counter-Strike 2 le Overwatch 2, mme ke tlhasela jaaka bard mo EverQuest.
Patlisiso
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Pampiri ya tiro
Spreading the love around: how does agricultural labor demand respond to temporary weather shocks?
Mo dinageng di le thataro, malapa a dipolase a ikaegile thata ka tiro ya malapa ka nako ya komelelo le dipaka tsa pula tse di sa tlwaelegang. Malapa a a eteletsweng pele ke basadi a kgorelediwa thata.
Abstract
This is the first study to separately identify labor demand responses to both unanticipated droughts and periods of above normal rainfall for three forms of agricultural labor that are central to agricultural production: family, hired, and mutual exchange labor. I use a simple parcel‑level model with three labor types and monitoring costs to study how family labor is reallocated across parcels during drought. In six countries I find small but statistically significant decreases in the share of hired labor during droughts and during periods of above-normal rainfall, indicating a strong reliance on family labor during shocks. I find that farm households appear to lean heavily on exchange labor by using exchange labor more frequently during periods of above-normal rainfall. Due to the heavy reliance on family labor, household size and the gender of the household head are important moderating factors. Women-headed households appear to be significantly more constrained in how they apply labor on family farms. My findings underscore that these labor types are distinct in how they respond to temporary weather shocks. The results of my analysis have important implications for policies targeted at stimulating agricultural labor markets.
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Tiro e e tswelelang
Assessing land area from above: evidence from Armenia
A randomized trial within a household survey: tracing fields on satellite imagery took 42% less time than measuring with GPS and improved on self-reported estimates, though it was less accurate than GPS.
Abstract
Using primary data collected by the World Bank in Armenia as part of a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the use of a satellite image tracing to measure agricultural land in the context of a household survey. Satellite tracing offers several benefits, including a large reduction in the cost of measuring land, the potential to measure more parcels of land, and improved security for survey enumerators. We find the satellite tracing approach yields consistent results, and requires 42% less time than measuring with GPS, and provides value-added over self-reported estimates. Due to the potential cost savings, and other non-trivial benefits, we suggest that land measurement via satellite image tracing offers significant value, though is not as accurate as land area estimates conducted with a handheld GPS.
Thuto
He is one of, if not the best professor I ever had at American University. He goes out of his way to have the class use real world examples of data rather than just having 'Sally has 4 apples and Dave has 15 oranges' style problems... He is everything a college professor should be and then some.
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2021 – 2024
Adjunct Professor · American University
Economic development, applied econometrics, and introductory micro- and macroeconomics, taught with real data and real-world examples.
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2015 – 2018
Graduate Institute, Geneva
Economics for International Affairs (2015–2016) and review sessions for Macroeconomics A (2017–2018).
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Setšhaba
Economics Discord
A 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit and partnered Discord server where more than 3,000 economics students, researchers and economists from around 30 countries help each other learn.
Dollar Scholars
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Founder
Dollar Scholars
Motheo wa thuto ya bagolo ya ditšhelete, o rutwa ka sebele e bile o theilwe mo patlisisong, ka gonne sekoloto ga se kgone go thusa batho ba ba sa itseng go se dirisa.
Thulaganyo
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Tlhabololo ya webosaete
dollarscholars.org
I designed, coded and auto-translated the foundation's website: a custom Django site styled with Tailwind CSS and self-hosted with nginx on an Ubuntu server, rebuilt with security in mind after a cyberattack. It comes in 44 language versions, including four right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu), and volunteer translators can check and correct any version through a simple CSV workflow.
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Financial Knowledge Study
A multilingual financial-knowledge survey and quiz in 31 languages, plus five playful ones such as Pirate Speak and 1930s Mobster. Dipotso di tserwe go tswa mo Lusardi & Mitchell (2014) le FINRA Foundation's National Financial Capability Study; dithanolo di ne tsa kwalwa ka Microsoft Copilot le Deep Translator mme tsa sekasekwa ke baithaopi fa di le teng.
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Research computing computing
Tshekatsheko ya Geospatial le Geospatial
Python (pandas) and Stata for large datasets such as household surveys, and GIS (ArcGIS) for satellite data, including mapping the VIIRS nighttime-lights composites behind this website.
Sportswear A Go Go
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2004 – 2011
eSports Commentator
Called Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft III for broadcasters including DirecTV, MTV and MTV Korea, along casters like Alex “Vansilli” Nguyen, Glenn “Boomerman” Lane and Zach “Hoo_man” Godfrey.
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Press · MTV.com (archived)
Video game play-by-play comes with a deadly challenge