Dambala Gelo Kutela. Curriculum Vitae: 27 Feb. 2017

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1 Phone: Fax: + 27(021) daatu24@yahoo.com Dambala Gelo Kutela Curriculum Vitae: 27 Feb Web: Education School of Economics, Commerce Faculty University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch PhD in Economics, University of Pretoria 2012 MSc in Economics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences 2002 Postgraduate certificate in Economics, Goteborg University 2007 BSc in Forestry Science, Haromaya University 1997 Research and Teaching Interest Primary: Applied Microeconomics, Microeconometrics Secondary: Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Decision Theory Employment Postdoc Fellow, University of Cape Town Research Fellow, Mannheim University 2013-present 2012-present Assistant Professor, Hawassa University Lecturer, Hawassa University Project Manager, Development Department, Ethiopian Mekane Yesus Church Journal Publication Gelo, D., Muchapondwa. E and Koch, F. S. (2016).Decentralization, market integration and efficiency- equity trade-off: Evidences from Joint Forest Management in Ethiopian villages, Journal of Forest Economics 22: 1 23 Gelo, D and Koch, F. S. (2015). Contingent Valuation of Community Forestry in Ethiopia: Controlling for Preference Anomalies in Double-bounded CVM, Ecological Economics, 114: pp Gelo, D and Koch, F. S. (2014). The Effects of Common Property Right Forestry: Evidence from Ethiopian Villages, World Development, 64:

2 Gelo, D and Koch, F. S. (2012). Does one size fit all? Heterogeneity in valuation of community forestry programs, Ecological Economics, 74: 85-9 Book Chapter Gelo, D., and Alemu. T. (2014): Impact of Forest Management Decentralization on Rural Livelihoods: Evidence from Ethiopia, in Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Local Control for Improved Livelihoods, Forest Management, and Carbon Sequestration, PP , Bluffstone, Randy., and Elizabeth. Robinson (eds), RFF Press Working Papers Gelo, D., Muchapondwa. E (2015).Decentralization, market integration and efficiency- equity tradeoff: Evidences from Joint Forest Management in Ethiopian villages, EfD Discussion Paper Series Gelo, Dambala, Steven F. Koch and Edwin Muchapondwa (2013), Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidence from Quantile Treatment Effect Evaluation of Joint Forest Management. Economic Research Southern Africa(ERSA) Working Paper 400, December Gelo, D and Koch, F. S The Welfare and Common Property Forestry Right: Evidence from Ethiopian Villages, Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), Working paper No 277 Submission Gelo. D (2016).Cooperation under alternative enforcement institutions: Experimental evidence from commons dilemma (under review) Work in progress Gelo, D., (2017). Ambiguous belief, learning and agricultural technology adoption in semi-arid regions of Africa: Evidence from framed field experiment Gelo, D., Niles Kemper., and Markus Frolich (2015).Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) evaluation of the effects of alternative saving products on household saving behavior in Ethiopia Gelo, D.,(2016). Mechanism design under Knightian uncertainty: An application to payment for environmental services contracts Gelo, D., (2015). Vertical integration and smallholder s saving response: Evidence from natural experiment Gelo, D., Muchapondwa. E and A. Shimelis.(2016).Cooperation, transaction cost and heterogeneous welfare effect: Evidence from natural experiment

3 Recent Teaching Experience Advanced Microeconomics University of Cape Town (UCT), 2015 Principles of Macroeconomics, UCT, 2014 Natural Resource Economics, MSc and PhD class, UCT, Microeconometrics, MSc class, Hawassa University (HU), 2012 Advanced Microeconomics, HU, 2012 Intermediate Macroeconomics HU, 2009 Supervised, PhD, MSc and Honours Thesis Tania Theoduloz, PhD, Transitioning towards Clean Energy Technology, School of Economics, UCT, ongoing project, co-supervised with Prof. Mare Sarr Molefe Choane, Honours, Household s Fuel Choice in South Africa, School of Economics, UCT, October, December, 2015 Moges Tufa, MSc, (2014), Analysis of economic rationale in inter-sectorial capital budget allocation decision in Ethiopia, School of Economics, Addis Ababa University Selam Assefa MSc, Estimating the Outdoor Recreational Value of Lake Awassa: An application of Travel Cost Method, School of Economics, Addis Ababa University, June (2013). Tizita Zerihun MSc, Household s willingness to pay for improved solid waste management in Hiawassee, Ethiopia: An application of contingent valuation method, School of Economics, Addis Ababa University, June (2013). Biniam Tilahun MSc, Valuing the economic benefits of controlling offsite effects of soil erosion: empirical evidence from the eastern highlands of Ethiopia, School of Economics, Addis Ababa University, June (2013) Workshops and Short Courses 1. J-PAL, Randomized Evaluation Workshop, Center for Environmental Economics and Policy(CEEPA), Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria, August J-PAL, Advanced Training Workshop on Randomized Evaluation(with certificate), School of Economics, University of Cape Town, 28 October - 2 November Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Development, 1st PODER Summer School, 7-10 July 2014, University of Cape Town

4 4. Field Experiments, Risk, and Uncertainty in Development, 3-7 February 2014, Center for Economic Analysis of Risk, Georgia State University, hosted by Research Unit in Behavioral and Neuronomics, School of Economics, University of Cape Town 5. Bayesian Econometrics Workshop1, offered by Prof. Dipak K. Dey (University of Connecticut), Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, December, Bayesian Econometrics Workshop2, offered by Prof. Hedibert F. Lopes (University of Chicago), Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, November, Short Course on Economic Implications of Property Rights to Natural Resources, offered by Prof Marty Luckert (University of Alberta), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of Pretoria, South Africa, June, Short Course on Applying Game Theory and Behavioral Economics to the Environment, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and Montreal University, Montreal, Canada, June Workshop on Non-linear Time Series Econometrics, offered by Prof. Mehmet Balcilar (Eastern Mediterranean University), Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa, September, Workshop on Non-parametric Econometrics, offered by Prof. Jeffrey S. Racine (Senator William McMaster Chair in Econometrics, McMaster University, Canada), Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), Nov, 2008, Pretoria, South Africa 11. Workshop on Micro-econometrics for Policy, Program and Treatment Effects Evaluation, offered by Prof Sebastian Galiani (University of Washington) South African Labor and Development Research Unit(SALDRU), Department of Economics, University of Cape Town, July, Workshop on Advanced Panel Data Econometrics, offered by Prof Jorge M. Aguero (University of California Riverside), SALDRU, Department of Economics, University of Cape Town, July, Workshop on Game Theory, offered by Prof Partha Dasgupta (Cambridge University), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of Pretoria, South Africa, June, 2007 Refereeing Ecological Economics(EE), Environment and Development Economics (EDE),

5 Journal of Forest Economics (JFE), South African Journal of Economics (SAJE), Economic Research Southern Africa Working papers (ERSA), South African Economic and Management Science (SAJEM) and PLOS ONE Selected conferences attended, paper presented and sessions chaired 1. Gelo, D., Muchapondwa. E and A. Shimelis.(2016). Return to investment in agricultural cooperatives: Evidence from natural experiment, 2016 Africa Meeting of Econometric Society, July 2016, Kruger National Park, South Africa 2. Gelo.D. (2015). Cooperation under alternative enforcement institutions: Experimental evidence from commons dilemma, ESSA Conference, Cape Town, 2-5 September, Gelo. D and.edwin.m (2015). Forest commons, rural saving and investment: Evidences from Ethiopian villages, ESSA Conference, Cape Town, 2-5 September, Gelo. D and.edwin.m (2015). Forest commons, rural saving and investment: Evidences from Ethiopian villages, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE) Conference, Helsinki, June, Gelo. D., Steve. K and Edwin.M (2015). Do The Poor Benefit From Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect Evaluation Of Joint Forest Management, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE) Conference, Helsinki, June, Gelo. D and.edwin.m (2014).Does better forest common s management crowd out rural saving? Forest commons and livestock holing in Ethiopian villages, 3 rd International Conference on Environmental and Natural Resource Management in Developing and Transition Economies, 8-10 October, 2014, Cleremont-Ferra, France

6 7. Gelo, Dambala, Steven F. Koch and Edwin Muchapondwa, Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidence from Quantile Treatment Effect Evaluation of Joint Forest Management. World Bank Land and Poverty Conference March, 2014, Washington D.C 8. Gelo, D and Koch, F. S The Welfare Effect of Common Property Forestry Right: Evidence from Ethiopian Villages, ESSA Conference, Bloemfontein, September 9. Gelo, D., Koch. F and Edwin Muchaponwa Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect Evaluation of Joint Forest Management,, ESSA Conference, Bloemfontein, September 10. Gelo, D and Koch, F. S Common property forestry program and the distribution of welfare impact: Evidences from Ethiopian villages, A paper presented on Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE 2012), June, 2012, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden 11. Gelo, D and Koch, F. S Contingent Valuation of Community Forestry in Ethiopia: Observing preference anomalies in double-bounded CVM, 19th Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resources Economics, June, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic 12. Gelo, D and Koch, F. S Afforestation subsidy policy under asymmetric information and transaction cost in developing countries: Does rural capital market imperfection matter? A paper presented on Nordic Development Economics Conference, June, 2009, Drowback, Norway 13. Gelo, D and Koch, F. S Do rural poor gain from common property forestry program? A quantile treatment effect (QTE) evaluation evidences from Ethiopian villages, 18th Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resources Economics, 29 June 2 July, 2011, Rome, Italy Sessions chaired

7 Forest Economics Session, 18th Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resources Economics, 29 June 2 July, 2011, Rome, Italy Development Economics Session: 6th International conference on Ethiopian Economy, 3-5 July, 2008, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Development Economics Session; 2016 Africa Meeting of Econometric Society, July 2016, Kruger National Park, South Africa Software Skill Stata, matlab, R, Eviews and Microsoft office Award and Honours Best PhD research award, 2012, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria Research grants 1. Common Property Right Design and Compliance Behaviour: Experimental Studies of Community Forestry Management in Ethiopia, Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung Foundation of Postdoc Fellowship: EUR (with Niels Kemper and Markus Frölich) ( ) 2. Household Forest values under Varying Management Regimes in Ethiopia: Funded by Environment for Development (EfD) PhD research project grant, 2009 USD (with Alemu Mekonnen and Abebe Damte) ( ) 3. Decentralization of natural forest and household welfare, research grant by IDRC, USD15000 (with Tekie Alemu) ( ) 4. Cooperation under alternative enforcement institutions: Experimental evidence from commons dilemma research grant by IDRC, USD15000 ( ) Membership in Professional Association Econometric Society (ES) European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE) Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA) Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA)

8 Reference Name Institution Contact Prof. Steve F. Koch Prof. Nicola Veigi Prof. Markus Frolich Department of Economics, University of Pretoria Department of Economics, University of Pretoria Chair of Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim Cell number: Tell: Tel: