Guy Tchuente

Guy is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent, a Fellow of the Global Labour Organization and member of the Macroeconomics, Growth and History Centre (MaGHiC).

Research Interests

Guy’s main fields of research being econometrics and empirical labour economics.  His econometric research investigates causal inference using observational data while his labour works concentrates on human capital.

Education

Guy received his PhD in Economics from the University of Montreal

Additional Information

Recent publications

Published Papers
“Laissez-faire, Social Networks, and Race during a Pandemic” (2022) (with Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji) forthcoming American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings.

“Optimal Interventions in Networks during a Pandemic” (2022) (with Pongou, Roland and Jean-Baptiste Tondji) accepted at Journal of Population Economy.

“Early Human Capital Accumulation and Decentralization” (2022), accepted at The Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon, Célestin Monga (ed.) Oxford University Press.

“The Forest Behind the Tree: Heterogeneity in How US Governor’s Party Affects Black Workers” (with Johnson Kakeu and John Nana Francois) forthcoming at Review of Black Political Economy.

“Fighting for not-So-Religious souls: The role of religious competition in secular conflicts (with Hector Galindo-Silva) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 191 (2021): 127-152.

Working Papers
“Learning the Right Skill: The Returns to Social, Technical and Basic Skills for Middle-Educated Graduates” (2022) (with Femke Cnossen and Matloob Piracha) R&R at Journal of Labor Economics.

“Spatial Differencing for Sample Selection Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity.” (2020) (with Klein, Alexander) R&R at Econometrics Journal.

“A Note on the Topology of the First Stage of 2SLS with Many Instruments” (2021), under submission at JBES

“Weak Identification and Estimation of Social Interaction Models”, 2022 Under Review.

“Fuzzy Difference-in-Discontinuities: Identification Theory and Application to the Affordable Care Act” (With Hector Galindo and Habib Some), 2022 Under review.

“Profits, Pandemics, and Lockdown Effectiveness in Nursing Home Networks” 2022 (with Roland Pongou, GJ Sidie, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji) Under review.

“Quarterly GDP Estimates for the United Kingdom, 1938-55”, 2021, (with Jagjit S. Chadha, Jason Lennard and Ryland Thomas)