Jovin’s primary research interest is in economic demography with the intersection of environmental and agricultural economics with a special focus on micro-econometrics and high-resolution satellite imagery to understand agricultural inputs price shocks and deforestation. Also, his secondary research interest is education economics focusing on teaching quality in the United States. To learn more about his research, please visit his personal website.
Jovin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA, and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Minnesota Population Center (MPC). He is also a Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at UChicago Scholar, a Jean Kinsey Fellow, and a Mary A. and Robert B. Litterman Fellow. Jovin began the Applied Economics Graduate Program after working for the Impact Evaluation Lab in the Economic and Social and Research Foundation (ESRF) and the Environment for Development Tanzania (EfDT), University of Dar es Salaam and remains associated with those research institutions.