Liyousew Borga
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| Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | ||||
| Department | Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences | ||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison des Sciences Humaines 11, Porte des Sciences L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Campus Office | MSH, E04 45-150 | ||||
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| Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 9490 | ||||
Liyou Borga is a Research Associate at INSIDE - Integrative Research Unit on Social and Individual Development. Before joining the University of Luxembourg, Liyou was a Junior Researcher at CERGE-EI (Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute) in Prague the Czech Republic, where he did his Ph.D.
His main research interest lies in labour economics and applied econometrics, mainly the role of early investments in childhood. He is particularly interested in skill formation, child development, intrahousehold resource allocation, and measurement of poverty and vulnerability. His current research focuses on the importance of innate abilities, parental investment, time use patterns, socioeconomic status, and early childhood interventions in explaining inequalities in cognitive and noncognitive skills as well as health capital.
Personal webpage:
https://sites.google.com/site/liyouborga/home
Last updated on: Tuesday, 21 January 2020
2021
Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru;
in World Development: the Multi-Disciplinary International Journal Devoted to the Study and Promotion of World Development (2021), 147
It's a Family Affair: Family Health Shocks and Child Well-Being; ;
in Willems, Helmut Erich; Samuel, Robin; Vögele, Claus; Heinen, Andreas (Eds.) Well-being and health-related behavior of adolescents. Disciplinary concepts, empirical findings, international perspectives, and practical approaches (working title) (2021)
Economic Perspectives on Well-Being; ;
in Willems, Helmut Erich; Samuel, Robin; Vögele, Claus; Heinen, Andreas (Eds.) Well-being and health-related behavior of adolescents. Disciplinary concepts, empirical findings, international perspectives, and practical approaches (working title) (2021)
The Socioeconomic gradient in child health and noncognitive skills: Evidence from the Czech Republic; ;
in Economics and Human Biology (2021)
2019
Children’s Own Time Use and its Effect on Skill Formationin Journal of Development Studies (2019), 55(5), 876-893
