Dr. Neil Ferguson
Dr. Neil Ferguson is an economist specializing in research topics of development and security. He completed his PhD on the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics at Heriot-Watt University and has subsequently worked at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He holds research interests in applied microeconomics, applied microeconometrics, impact evaluation and behavioural game theory and has conducted work in Northern Ireland, Mexico, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Latest Publications:
Rural youth in the context of fragility and conflict
Background Paper 14 for IFAD Rural Development Report 2019
Can employment build peace? A pseudo-meta-analysis of employment programmes in Africa
in: Economics Letters Vol. 180, S. 99-101
Die Kosten des Extremismus
The Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) was commissioned by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) to conduct a short study on the costs of extremism using the example of […]
The Impact of Job Quality on Wellbeing: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
in: Social Indicators Research Vol. 144 Issue 1, pp. 337–378