Henry Akaeze, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department:Business and Economics
Office:Gardner Hall 206F
Phone:402-375-7255
Email: [email protected]
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, Dr. Akaeze 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.
Dr. Akaeze, in close collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Miller, an associate professor of Political Science, Department of History, Politics and Geography, is currently analyzing Graduate Employability Mapping Initiative. Launched in Fall 2024, this Tableau institutional research initiative tracks and visualizes post-graduation career trajectories and regional migration patterns for WSC alumni. Thanks to the dataset made possible by the Career Services, the interactive Tableau dashboards and mappings analyze the geographic distribution, salary ranges, employment structures, and placement timelines of graduates both domestically and internationally.
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.