Biography
Zemzem Shigute Shuka is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Development and Policy Research, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She has keen research interest on applied microeconomics in the areas of Global Health, Impact Evaluation of Social Protection Programs, Community-Based Development Interventions, Human capital investments and labour markets. To date, in collaboration with other researchers, she has published her work in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Global Health, the Journal of Development Studies and Social Science & Medicine.
In her teaching role, she (co-) teaches courses like basic statistics and probability, regression and data analysis, topics in regression analysis and techniques for understanding quantitative secondary data for graduate students.
Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Zemzem holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University and Masters of Arts Degree in Development Studies specializing in Development Economics from International Institute of Social studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. During the time between her BA and MA Degrees she served in different capacities at several governmental and non-governmental organizations in Ethiopia which included, among others, technical and capacity building assistance to the PSNP public works implementation unit in the Oromia Bureau of Agriculture.
International Institute of Social Studies
- shuka@iss.nl
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Work
- Zecharias Fetene Anteneh, Anagaw D. Mebratie, Zemzem Shigute, Getnet Alemu & Arjun S. Bedi (2024) - Does community-based health insurance affect lifestyle and timing of treatment seeking behavior?: Evidence from Ethiopia - Global Health Journal, 8 (2), 83-90 - doi: 10.1016/j.glohj.2024.05.005 - [link]
- Getnet Alemu, Zemzem Shigute, Anagaw Mebratie, Robert Sparrow & Arjun S. Bedi (2024) - On the functioning of community-based health insurance schemes in rural Ethiopia - Social Science and Medicine, 345 - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115739 - [link]
- Zahra Zarepour, Anagaw Mebratie, Dessalegn Shamebo, Zemzem Shigute, Getnet Alemu & Arjun S. Bedi (2023) - Social Health Insurance and Healthcare Seeking Behavior in Urban Ethiopia - Annals of Global Health, 89 (1) - doi: 10.5334/aogh.4240 - [link]
- M Arsel, BA Demena, A Floridi, GM Gomez, G Haile, A Kalfagianni, F Mukhtarov, SM Murshed, E Papyrakis, L Pellegrini, M Rieger, Z Shigute, GJA Uzin, R van der Hoeven, R Vos & N Wagner (2023) - International Collaboration in Times of Pandemics: An Urgent Need for Reforming our Global Financial System - Progress in Development Studies, 23 (3), 338-343 - doi: 10.1177/14649934231157238 - [link]
- Zemzem Shigute Shuka, Anagaw Mebratie & Arjun Bedi (2023) - Social Protection Schemes in Ethiopia: The Productive Safety Net Program and the Community Based Health Insurance Scheme - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-89265-4_25
- Christoph Strupat, Zemzem Shigute, Arjun S. Bedi & Matthias Rieger (2022) - Willingness to take COVID-19 vaccination in low-income countries: Evidence from Ethiopia - PLoS ONE, 17 (3 March) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264633 - [link]
- Zemzem Shuka, Anagaw Mebratie, Getnet Alemu, Matthias Rieger & Arjun S. Bedi (2022) - Use of healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in urban Ethiopia: evidence from retrospective health facility survey data - BMJ Open, 12 (2) - doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056745 - [link]
- Bezawit Fantu, Genet Haile, Yordanos Lassooy Tekle, Sreerekha Mullassery Sathiamma, Binyam Afewerk Demena & Zemzem Shigute Shuka (2022) - Experiences of Eritrean and Ethiopian Migrants During COVID-19 in the Netherlands - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82339-9_4 - [link]
- Zemzem Shigute Shuka (2021) - Community Participation and the Quality of Rural Infrastructure in Ethiopia - Journal of African Economies, 31 (4), 355-383 - doi: 10.1093/jae/ejab017
- Zemzem Shigute Shuka, Anagaw Mebratie, Robert Sparrow, Getnet Alemu & Arjun Bedi (2020) - The Effect of Ethiopia’s Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme on Revenues and Quality of Care - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, (22), 1-17 - doi: 10.3390/ijerph17228558 - [link]
