A full Curriculum Vitae for Alok Bohara is available in Word Document format.

A full Curriculum Vitae for Alok Bohara is available in PDF format.

RATS handout for Alok Bohara's Econ 408 class is available here in Word Document format.

STATA handout for Alok Bohara's Econ 509 class is available here in Word Document format.

Research Interest:

Environmental Issues

• Estimation of non-market valuation models (contingent valuation method).
• Comparing survey versus experimental data.
• Conservation and the community forestry in the developing country (e.g., Nepal).
• Environmental Kuznets curves.
• Modeling uncertainties.

Poverty, Economic Policy, and Development

• Partial and general equilibrium approaches to assess the distributional effect of economic policy changes at the household and/or individual level (Macro-micro links: trade liberalization, environmental policy, tax policies, and other structural reforms; CGE and household survey approach in a macro-micro simulation analysis.)
• Social capital and collective decisions (measurement issues and the effect).
• Women's empowerment and the household production (health, education, fertility, and the balance of power).
• Poverty mapping with GIS.
• Area concentration and comparative analysis focused on but not limited to: Asia (China, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal) and Latin American Countries (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Brazil). Currently focusing on Nepal and Guatemala.

Development and the Environment

• Conservation, community forestry and the collective actions.
• Mapping of poverty and community forestry using GIS (using Nepal data).
• General and partial equilibrium approach to model the environmental policy implications (macro-micro link using the CGE model, microsimulation using the household data).
• Assessing the impact of conflict, poverty, and the market distortion on the environmental degradation (using the Nepal data).

Political Economy of Poverty and Violence

• Poverty, vulnerability, and conflict and its socio-economic implications (e.g., use of Nepali insurgency data to model the cause and effect of the conflict).
• Maoist insurgency (1996-), violence and the human rights violations.
• Corruption, good governance, and the economic development.
• Mapping violence and poverty using GIS (e.g., using Nepal data).

Econometrics, Statistics, and Modeling Interest

• Bayesian modeling of hierarchical models (capturing community effects in a multilevel setup using the MCMC Gibbs Sampling algorithm)
• Panel, limited dependent variable modeling, and selectivity issues.
• Distributional assumptions (gamma, beta, etc.)
• Spatial econometrics of poverty, conservation, and the collective decisions (e.g., social capital).
• Macro-micro link and the Microsimulation (assessing macro effect on the individual household using the survey data with or without the computable general equilibrium CGE models)
• Time series analysis.
• Gauss, Stata, Multi-Level Modeling (MLWin), Rats/Estima, Bayesian Gibbs Sampling and MCMC, Geo-statistics and econometric modeling (SpaceStat), and GAMS.

Select Names of students that I have worked with closely and their placements:

• Pallab Mozumder (PhD, Post-doc at U. of Massachusetts, Fall 2005)
• Alejandro Islas (PhD, faculty, ITAM, Mexico)
• Maurice Moffett (PhD, faculty, Baylor University, Medical School)
• Therese Cavlovic (PhD, faculty, Weber State University)
• David Scrogin (PhD, faculty, University of Central Florida)
• Reinhold Groepler (PhD, Senior economist, State of Washington)
• Hui Li (PhD, Eastern Illinois University)
• Pingo Wang (MA, Manager, Information Technology)
• Carl Mittendorff (BA Honors, Investment)

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