Biography
Professor Ene Ikpebe conducts interdisciplinary research across the fields of public management, public administration, and public policy. She is most interested in questions concerning women’s human capital development as advanced by education or hindered by issues such as early marriage. Her research also includes studies of African women in the US where she focuses on questions of labor market assimilation and wage discrimination in the US (published at American Economist and Atlantic Economic Journal). In the fall of 2021, Professor Ikpebe is teaching PAD 5227: Managing Financial Resources. A Nigerian native, she comes to Tallahassee by way of Illinois Wesleyan University where she received her bachelor’s in economics and American University in DC where she received her MPP and PhD in public administration.
Education
PhD, American University, Public Administration (2021)
MPP, American University, Public Policy (2017)
BA, Illinois Wesleyan University, Economics (2015)
Courses Taught
- PAD 5227: Managing Financial Resources
- PAD 5836: International and Comparative Administrations
Selected Publications
Seeborg, M.C. & Ikpebe, E. (2020). The Effect of Undergraduate Major Choices on the Earnings of sub-Saharan African Immigrant and Native-Born College Graduates. American Economist, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 222-240.
Ikpebe, E. & Seeborg, M.C. (2018). Earnings Performance of African Immigrants: Evidence from the American Community Survey. Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 215-230.
Ene Ikpebe
MPP, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Public Management, Public Policy, Public Administration, Women's Human Capital Development, Policy Process
652 Bellamy
Office hours by appointment