Abdullahi Abdulkadri joined the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the summer of 2007. Before coming to MSU, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Economics at the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta where he assisted investigators at CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers in conducting economic evaluation of their intervention projects. More recently, he taught econometrics, game theory and operations research at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, and has consulted for the Caribbean Commission on Health and Development, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre and the Planning Institute of Jamaica.

Professional Interests

• Production under risk and uncertainty
• Economic burden of diabetes and hypertension
• Health outcomes research
• Economics of climate change adaptation
• Impact of deregulation on consumer welfare

Selected Publications

Geri, D., K. Horn, A. Abdulkadri, I. Kalsekar, and S. Branstetter. “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Not On Tobacco Program for Adolescent Smoking Cessation.” Prevention Science (Forthcoming).

Swaby, R. and A.O. Abdulkadri, 2007. “Should husband and wife really pool their incomes?” Applied Economics Letters, 14: 813-816.

Abdulkadri, A.O., S. Pinnock and P.F. Tennant, 2007.  “Public Perception of Genetic Engineering and the Choice to Purchase Genetically Modified Food in Jamaica.”  Food, Agriculture and Environment, 5(2): 8-12.

Abdulkadri, A.O., M.R. Langemeier, and A.M. Featherstone, 2006.  “Estimating Economies of Scope and Scale under Price Risk and Risk Aversion.”  Applied Economics, 38(2): 191-201.

Forrester, T., A. Abdulkadri, S. Lalta, C. Cunningham-Myrie,R. Cooper, 2005.  “Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health” in G. Alleyne (ed.): Report of the Caribbean Commission on Health and Development, Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC.

Abdulkadri, A.O., M.R. Langemeier, and A.M. Featherstone, 2003.  “Estimating Risk Aversion Coefficients for Dryland Wheat, Irrigated Corn, and Dairy Producers in Kansas.” Applied Economics, 35(7): 825-834.

Lusk, J.L., A.M. Featherstone, T.L. Marsh, and A.O. Abdulkadri, 2002.  “Empirical Properties of Duality Theory.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 46:45-68.

Abdulkadri, A.O. and M.R. Langemeier, 2000.  “Using Farm Consumption Data to Estimate the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution and the Relative Risk Aversion Coefficient.”  Agricultural Finance Review, 60: 61-70.

Ajibefun, I. A. and A. O. Abdulkadri, 1999.  “An Investigation of Technical Inefficiency of Production of Farmers under the National Directorate of Employment in Ondo State, Nigeria.”  Applied Economics Letters, 6: 111-114.