Henry Akaeze, Ph.D.

Dr. Henry Akaeze is a business professor at Wayne State College. With previous roles as assistant professor of economics at Community College of Baltimore County, Md., and shared faculty at Ivy Tech Community College, Ind., he has extensive experience teaching microeconomics, macroeconomics, and other economics-related courses. Prior to joining Wayne State College, Henry worked with the Office of Public Engagement and Scholarship at Michigan State University, where he leveraged Tableau software to construct essential dashboards for visualizing Michigan's childcare provider landscape. His research interests are in the natural resource space, particularly in corruption-induced distortions in oil contract allocation and environmental damage.

Akaeze’s teaching expertise spans various economic disciplines, including macroeconomics, microeconomics, natural resource economics, and agricultural resource economics.

Education
Ph.D. Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, 2016
M.Sc. Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, 2010
B.A. Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria-Nsukka, 2006

Publications

Reaves, J., H.O. Akaeze, H. Schlukebir, S. Miller, H.O. Akaeze, & J.H. Wu (2025). More Care, More Workers? Gauging the Impact of Childcare Access on Labor Force Participation. Social Sciences, 14(8), 458.

Akaeze, H.O. (2019). Distortions in Oil Contract Allocation and Environmental Damage in the Presence of Corruption. Review of Development Economics, Vol. 24, pp. 188-208.

Adelaja, A. & H.O. Akaeze (2018). Supply Response, Economic Diversification and Recovery Strategy in the Oil Industry. Energy Strategy Reviews, Vol. 21, pp. 111-120.

Hailu, Y.G., A. Adelaja, H.O. Akaeze & S. Hanson (2014). Explaining International Land Transactions in Africa. In P. V. Schaeffer & E. Kouassi, eds., Econometric Methods for Analyzing Economic Development. Pennsylvania: U.S.A. Pages 111-130.