Challey Institute Human Progress & Flourishing Workshop - Shishir Shakya

Shishir is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Walker College of Business, Appalachian State University. He is also a Research Fellow of the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation at West Virginia University.

He is an applied economist specializing in healthcare provider labor, licensing, and regulation markets. He is passionate about finding solutions that improve healthcare access and quality at reduced costs.

He uses various applied econometric, spatial, and policy evaluation techniques and supplement my empirical knowledge with the practice of technology-driven methods such as data-scrapping, big data, predictive, and causal machine learning approaches.

He has published in numerous peer-reviewed academic journals, including the World Development, Annals of Regional Science, Energy Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Spatial Economic Analysis, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Labor Research, and others.

He teaches Business and Economic Statistics II and Timeseries Forecasting in Fall 2023. Previously, I have taught Regional Economics, Economic Analysis of Big Data, Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Business Data Visualization, and Elementary Business & Economic Statistics.

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