Emanuel Agu

Emanuel Agu is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the Graduate Center. His main areas of interest include labor economics and applied econometrics, focusing on social policy and demographic change. His current research explores the impact of social and environmental factors on economic mobility and equality of opportunity. Agu has worked as an economist in the private sector, as well as a research consultant for government agencies and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on public policy, urban economics, and statistics for social sciences, and he has assisted Stone Center postdoctoral scholars on projects on comparative financialization and inequality in mortality. Agu is also a Demographic Fellow with the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, where he is engaged in developing methodologies for small-area population projections using geospatial and fine-scale population datasets.