Vidhura S Tennekoon is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Vidhura earned his BSc degree in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya and an MBA from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka where he is originally from. He earned an MSc degree in Economics and Econometrics with Distinction from the University of Nottingham, UK. During 2008 to 2012, Vidhura attended Washington State University and received a PhD in economics. Before joining IUPUI in 2014, Vidhura worked at the Departments of Economics of the University of Oklahoma and Eastern Washington University where he taught several undergraduate and graduate economics courses. He also has professional experience as a central banker.
Experience
2014–present
Assistant Professor of Economics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Education
2012
Washington State University, PhD Economics
2006
The University of Nottingham, MSc in Economics and Econometrics
2001
University of Colombo, MBA
1996
University of Peradeniya, BScEng (Electrical and Electronics)
Publications
2022
Estimation of a selectivity model with misclassified selection, Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications
2019
Dirty hands on troubled waters: Sanitation, access to water and child health in Ethiopia, Review of Development Economics
2017
Counting unreported abortions: A binomial-thinned zero-inflated Poisson model, Demographic Research
2016
The equivalence of three latent class models and ML estimators, Economic Letters
2016
Systematically misclassified binary dependent variables, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods
2015
Core Inflation, The Encyclopedia of Central Banking
2015
Settlement Systems, The Encyclopedia of Central Banking
2015
The pot calling the kettle black? A comparison of measures of current tobacco use, Applied Economics
2014
Inferring outcrossing in the homothallic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum using linkage disequilibrium decay, Heredity
2014
'Behold, a virgin is with HIV!'misreporting sexual behavior among infected adolescents, Health Economics
2013
Selection effects and prevention program outcomes, Prevention Science
2011
Measuring bias in self-reported data, International Journal of Behavioural & Healthcare Research
2009
Representative Consumer Price index for Sri Lanka: Lessons From India,
Professional Memberships
American Economic Association
International Association for Applied Econometrics