Dr Yonatan Dinku
Areas of expertise
- Econometric And Statistical Methods 140302
- Health Economics 140208
- Labour Economics 140211
- Applied Economics 1402
Research interests
- Child development
- Labour market outcomes
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
- Impact evaluation of social policies
- Social capital and neighbourhood effects
- Health and well-being
Biography
Yonatan holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Otago. He has completed a master's in International and Development Economics at the Australian National University. Yonatan worked as a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Bahir Dar University and taught Introductory Econometrics at the University of Otago.
Yonatan has extensive expertise in quantitative modelling and analysis. His PhD project involved the application of quasi-experimental designs (instrumental variable estimation, propensity score matching and fixed-effects estimation) to large scale longitudinal and pooled-panel datasets to identify key determinants of child wellbeing and human capital. Since 2018, Yonatan’s research has focused on Indigenous life outcomes, such as employment, health and wellbeing. In his research, Yonatan has extensively applied advanced quantitative analysis techniques to Indigenous data sourced from survey and census collections.
Yonatan's research interests lie in the areas of Indigenous wellbeing, human development, development economics and applied microeconomics.
Publications
- Dinku, Y & Hunt, J 2021, 'Factors Associated with the Labour Force Participation of Prime-age Indigenous Australians', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol. 24, no. 1-2, pp. 72 - 98.
- Dinku, Y & Regasa, D 2021, 'Ethnic Diversity and Local Economies', South African Journal of Economics, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 348-367.
- Dinku, Y & Fielding, D 2021, 'The long-term association between child labour and cognitive development', Oxford Development Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 66-87.
- Woods, K, Markham, F, Smith, D et al. 2021, Toward a Perpetual Funding Model for Native Title Prescribed Bodies Corporate, CAEPR Commissioned Report No. 7.
- Dinku, Y 2021, 'A longitudinal analysis of economic inactivity among Indigenous youth', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 25-45.
- Dinku, Y, Hunter, B & Markham, F 2020, Implications of COVID-19 for the Indigenous labour market.
- Dinku, Y 2020, The COVID-19 crisis, recession and Indigenous jobs.
- Lahn, J, Puszka, S, Lawton, P et al. 2020, Beyond Parity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce Planning: Achieving Equity through Needs-Based and Strengths-Based Approaches.
- Dinku, Y, Hunter, B & Markham, F 2020, 'How might COVID-19 affect the Indigenous labour market?', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 189-209.
- Dinku, Y, Markham, F, Venn, D et al. 2020, Language use is connected to indicators of wellbeing: Evidence from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey 2014-15 .
- DITRC, AIATSIS: J. Battin, J. Lee, D. Marmion, R. Smith, T. Wang, ANU: Y. Dinku, J. Hunt, F. Markham, D. Angelo, E. Browne, I. Kral, C. O’Shannessy, J. Simpson & H. Smith (2020) National Indigenous Languages Report. Canberra: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, formerly the Department of Communications and the Arts. https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/indigenous-arts-and-languages/national-indigenous-languages-report
- Venn, D & Dinku, Y 2020, 'Can increased educational attainment explain declining Indigenous fertility? Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol.55, no.3, pp.339-353
- Dinku, Y & Hunt, J 2019, Factors associated with the labour force participation of prime-age Indigenous Australians, CAEPR Working Paper 131/2019, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Dinku, Y, Fielding, D & Genc, M 2019, 'Neighbourhood Ethnic Diversity, Child Health Outcomes and Women's Empowerment', The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 1909-1927.
- Dinku, Y 2019, 'The Impact of Public Works Programme on Child Labour in Ethiopia', South African Journal of Economics, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 283-301.
- Dinku, Y, Fielding, D & Genc, M 2019, 'Counting the uncounted: The consequences of children's domestic chores for health and education in Ethiopia', Review of Development Economics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1260-1281.
- Dinku, Y, Fielding, D & Genc, M 2018, 'Health shocks and child time allocation decisions by households: evidence from Ethiopia', IZA : Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 1-23.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Footprints in Time: the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) Social and Emotional Wellbeing Research Report (Secondary Investigator)
- Longitudinal Studies of Indigenous Children Wave 13 Summary Report (Secondary Investigator)
- Development of a predictive tool to inform responses to food (in)security amongst Aboriginal peoples of NSW (Secondary Investigator)
- Evaluation of the English Language Learning for Indigenous Children (ELLIC) trial - Phase 4 & 5 (Secondary Investigator)
- Strong Culture, Strong Place, Strong Youth (Secondary Investigator)
- Research into perpetual funding options for Native Title PBCs (Secondary Investigator)
- AIATSIS Core Cultural eLearning Impact and Currency Evaluation (work order) (Secondary Investigator)
- Evaluation of the English Language Learning for Indigenous Children (ELLIC) trial - Phase 3 (Secondary Investigator)
- ITS Monitoring and evaluation Framework Aboriginal Victoria (Secondary Investigator)
- Employment, financial security and Indigenous mental health (Secondary Investigator)
- CAEPR-AIGI GOVERNANCE RESEARCH PROJECT (Secondary Investigator)
- Evaluation of OCHRE - Local Decision Making (Secondary Investigator)
