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Damir Esenaliev

Co-Principal Investigator and Study Coordinator
esenaliev@igzev.de
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Dr Damir Esenaliev is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ). His research interests include quantitative microeconomic research related to agriculture, rural development, social cohesion, labor markets, inequality, and intergenerational mobility. He is the Academic Coordinator of the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study.

He has published in Journal of Comparative Economics, Comparative Economic Studies, Economics of Transition, Social Indicators Research, and International Journal of Psychology. In addition, he has a number of working papers and reports published at ADB, DIW Berlin, IZA, University of Central Asia, and the World Bank.

Previously, he worked at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the World Bank office in the Kyrgyz Republic, and the National (Central) Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Dr Esenaliev holds a PhD degree in Economics from Humboldt University of Berlin and he obtained his Master’s degree in Development Economics from Williams College (USA).

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  • Themes: Capacity Building, Human Development, Impact Evaluation, Micro-Data Collection

About the study

The ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Study (LiK Study) is a research-based, open access, multi-topic longitudinal survey of households and individuals in Kyrgyzstan. It tracks the same 3,000 households and 8,000 individuals over time in all seven Kyrgyz regions (oblasts) and the two cities of Bishkek and Osh.

Data Access

The ‘Life in Kyrgyzstan’ Study data is openly available: it can be used by any interested party for non-for-profit research, policy analysis and teaching purposes. The survey questionnaires and interviewer manuals can be downloaded here or on the project web site.

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Latest News

  • Summary of presentations from the LiK 2022 conference published
  • LiK data used in a multi-country study on age and risk-taking

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