Shiferaw Gurmu  Associate Professor of Economics          Shif Gurmu (Ph.D. in Economics, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1992) is an Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University. He attended Addis Ababa University (BSc in Statistics) and University of Manchester (MA in Econometrics). Dr. Gurmu has previously held faculty positions at Addis Ababa University and most recently at the University of Virginia. Research and teaching interests include microeconometric theory and applications, with emphasis on limited dependent, discrete (especially count), duration, and panel data models. Recent applied research focus on welfare-to-work transition, fertility, health care utilization, and economics of innovation and technology. He has served on the Board of Editors of the Atlantic Economic Journal since 2003 and as referee for over two dozen academic journals.