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Theepakorn Jithitikulchai, PhD
Research Fellow, Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Aug 2019-Current)
• Fiscal space analysis and health worker network simulation for Thailand
Consultant Economist, World Bank (Aug 2013-Current)
• Exploring Methodologies to Measure Household Climate Resilience in Zambia and Sub-Saharan Africa: Designs conceptual framework, sampling frame, questionnaire, and quality assurance protocol for a household survey to evaluate the impacts of the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) program on agricultural diversification and climate resilience in rural areas of Zambia; and leads the research using the LSMS-ISA surveys in Africa to explore climate adaptation impacts on household welfare and agricultural productivity (active)
• Cambodia’s Second Health Sector Support Project (HSSP2): Provides technical studies for an impact evaluation program of seven nationwide health system surveys from both demand- and supply-sides (such as household, community, health facility, health worker, exit patient, etc.), drafts the reports, and provides technical guidance and safeguard on data quality assurance with daily monitoring for the baseline, midline, and endline quantitative surveys (active)
• India’s Uttarakhand Health Systems Development Project (UKHSDP): Analytical outputs, including quasi-experimental impact evaluation, and drafts a descriptive report on improving health access and financial risk protection
• Thailand’s analysis of the changing skills content and automatability of occupations: Harmonizes the quarterly Labor Force Surveys from 1984-2018 according to the specifications and standards of the EAPPOV-LFS regional harmonization guidelines, reviews literature related to the changing skills content of occupations and automatability, creates and modifies crosswalks between occupational classification schemes, develops the country’s labor skills and automatability profile, and leads the analysis on skills content and automatability of occupations
• Laos’ Baseline Survey for Health Governance and Nutrition Development Project: Supervised analytical works on impact evaluation of the governmental nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions on the nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of mothers with children under 5; and descriptive child anthropometry (underweight, stunting and wasting)
• Thailand Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD)’s poverty reduction and shared prosperity: Drafted a chapter focusing on poverty trends, inclusive growth, employment, education, health, gender, and social protection, and also technically supported the country’s Analytical and Advisory Assistance (AAA) programs on poverty mapping and fiscal benefit incidence analysis
• Thailand SCD’s economic growth model: Inputs for a chapter on structural transformation, productivity growth, and lagging regions falling further behind
• Thailand SCD’s gender wage inequality: Econometric analyses of gender inequality to identify challenges in the wage gap and job participation, and reweighted decomposition on the counterfactual distribution of wages
• Thailand SCD’s underdevelopment in the Deep South: Draft an appendix based on analytics on lagging behind other regions related to topics in poverty, education, structural transformation, labor productivity, and youth development for those who are “Not in Education, Employment, or Training”
• Thailand’s gender analysis for SCD and CGAP reports: Providing empirically grounded analytics on issues covering a broad spectrum of issues on poverty, labor market, education, health, voice and agency, and violence against women
• Cambodia Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD)’s structural transformation, labor productivity, and forecasts: Assessment of the labor market trends, labor productivity, and skills in Cambodia, including the identification of current and potential constraints corresponding to the educational attainment simulations and demographic forecasts until 2050 (compared with experiences from Vietnam and Thailand to achieve the upper-middle-income status)
• Cambodia SCD’s gender issues in the labor market and economic inclusion: Analytics and storyline on gender inequality in economic prosperity, firm profitability, labor productivity, education impacts on employment and earning gaps, and social protection aspects such as land tenure, maternal mortality, financial inclusion, and food vulnerability associated with climate change using multiple national and international household surveys including a firm census
• Cambodia SCD’s stagnation in garment labor productivity: Description for policy discussion on economic diversification, labor productivity, and impacts of the minimum wage in the garment sector
• Cambodia SCD’s labor migration and poverty reduction: Analysis of labor migration focusing on employment and skill mismatches, remittances, and poverty reduction
• Cambodia’s access to secondary education: Proposal for nationwide construction of new schools and overcrowded school rehabilitation using EMIS, GIS, and poverty-population data
• Myanmar’s EMIS database: Establish a single EMIS data file using Stata for the first attempt of the country at collecting and computerizing school-level data, given challenges from separate and very unorganized Myanmar language Excel files representing different townships and states
• Thailand’s education reform: Analytics and policy recommendations for student financing on basic, private, vocational, and non-formal/informal education; and simulation of small-school consolidation across the country and teacher-requirement model
• Thailand’s involuntary exclusion of financial services: Examine characteristics of the financially excluded households, evaluate impacts of involuntary exclusion on poverty and impacts of access to formal services on the profitability of small non-farm household businesses, and policy discussion
• Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2014: Analytics on the disparity in basic education performance in Malaysia by ethnic, income level, and urban-rural; and among Malaysian and Singaporean students who speak Bahasa Malay language
• Malaysia’s capacity building on basic education: Evaluate equity in education expenditure using national household and local school/student surveys; and provide training courses on regression and instrumental variables, benefit incidence analysis (BIA), and impact evaluation (IE) using Stata
• Thailand’s elder health protection: Analytics using national socio-economic and health surveys; and support on design, planning, budgeting, and coordinating nationwide qualitative survey
• Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2013: A technical background note on good school governance and educational performance; and analytics on education using a national household survey with data dictionary in Bahasa Malay language
• Myanmar Public Finance Review: Analytics using a national household survey on health utilization, financial protection, catastrophic expenditure, benefit incidence analysis of health expenditure using standardized and unstandardized concentration indexes, and nested probability regression models of seeking care when sick and whether go to public or private health facilities
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