John Sseruyange, PhD

John.sseruyange@mak.ac.ug
+256 782 487948
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John Sseruyange, PhD

Lecturer

Department of Policy Development and Economics

Contact Information

Tel: +256 782 487948

Email: John.sseruyange@mak.ac.ug | johnsseruyange@gmail.com

Office Location: Office: 5.5, Block A School of Economics

Biography

Dr. John Sseruyange is a Lecturer of Economics at School of Economics, Makerere University and a research fellow at Efd-Mak center and at the Network for Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA), Nairobi, Kenya. In relation to lecturing, John is responsible for teaching Environmental and Natural Resource Economics both at Undergraduate and graduate levels and Macroeconomics at graduate level. In line of research, John has been involved in a number of impact evaluation projects and framed/lab-in-the-field experiments.

Dr. Sseruyange has also been involved in a number of consultancy works, among others, Auditing of the Uganda’s Steel Sector, Examining the State of Uganda’s Business Environment and Assessing the Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Effects of Indigenous Ecovillage in Mpigi District. Dr. Sseruyange holds a PhD in Development Economics from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, a Master of Arts in Economics from Makerere University, Uganda and a Bachelor of Arts with Education (Economics, Geography) from Makerere University, Uganda. John is also good in panel data analysis.

Education

  • PhD in Economics, Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2018
  • Master of Arts in Economics, Makerere University, 2005
  • Bachelor of Arts in Education (Economics, Geography), Makerere University, 2003

Research Interests

Impact Evaluations, Household behaviors, Development Economics and Environment

Courses Taught

Macroeconomics at both graduate and undergraduate levels, Mathematical Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Economics, Industrial Economics, International Economics and Public Sector Economics

Publications

  • Sseruyange, J., & Bulte, E. (2018). Do incentives matter for the diffusion of financial knowledge? Experimental evidence from Uganda. Journal of African Economies, 27(5), 612-631.
  • Incentives and financial institutions in the development process:Evidence from field experiments and panel data analysis. Wageningen University. Organization,I. L. (2018).
  • Sseruyange, J., & Bulte, E. (2020). Wage Differentials and Workers’ Effort: Experimental Evidence from Uganda. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82(3), 647-668.
  • Sseruyange, J., & Klomp, J. (2021). Natural disasters and economic growth: The mitigating role of microfinance institutions. Sustainability, 13(9), 5055.
  • Klomp, J., & Sseruyange, J. (2021). Earthquakes and Economic Outcomes: Does Central Bank Independence Matter?. Open Economies Review, 1-25.
  • Nanyiti, A., & Sseruyange, J. (2021). Do remittances impact on entrepreneurial activities? Evidence from a panel data analysis. The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 1-13.
  • Nnyanzi, J. B., Kavuma, S., Sseruyange, J., & Nanyiti, A. (2022). The manufacturing output effects of infrastructure development, liberalization and governance: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 1-32.