Emil Kee-Tui

Emil was a Graduate Research Assistant from 2019 to 2021. He is interested in institutional economics, particularly how it effects economic development for households. He grew up in Zimbabwe and prior to coming to the University of Arizona earned a B.A. in Economics, with a minor in Mathematics, from Colby College. His M.S. thesis won Outstanding Master's Thesis from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in 2022.

Emil is currently a Ph.D. student in Applied Economics at Cornell University, with the goal of working in international development. He continues to work on his research as part of the AIDE Lab.

Research Project

• Estimating the Impact of Weather on Agriculture
• Labor, Credit, and Markets in the Philippines

M.S. Thesis

• Labor, Credit, and Markets: Evidence from the Philippines, 1971-2016

Working Paper

• Kee-Tui, E., Josephson, A., and Michler, J.D. “Farmer Family Firms and Missing Markets: Evidence from the Philippines, 1970-2016.”