Augustine Denteh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Biography
Augustine Denteh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Tulane University. His broad research interests are in Applied Econometrics and Health Economics, where he is interested in employing innovative econometric tools to study how public policies affect people’s health and wellbeing. In particular, he works on impact evaluation, measurement error models, the economics of obesity, and food and nutrition programs. Augustine is also interested in techniques for generalizability in health policy using statistical machine learning approaches for causal inference.
Research
- Applied Econometrics
- Health Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
Publications
Button P., Collins L., Denteh A., Harrell B., Isaac E., Garcia-Perez M., and Ziedan E. (2021). “Teaching Controversial and Contemporary Topics in Economics Using a Jigsaw Literature Review Activity.” The Journal of Economic Education
Courtemanche, C., Denteh, A., and Tchernis, R. (2019). “Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participa- tion.” Southern Economic Journal, 86(1), 202-228
Nguimkeu, P., Denteh, A., and Tchernis, R. (2019). “On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting.” Journal of Econometrics, 208 (2), 487-506
Denteh, A., Millimet, D. L., and Tchernis, R. (2018). “The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence.” Empirical Economics, 56 (6), 2185–2224
