Olanrewaju Adewole Adediran

About

Olanrewaju Adediran has a PhD in economics from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research areas of interest are development, health and labour economics, gender issues, and applied econometrics. He has published articles in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and attended workshops and conferences locally and internationally. Olanrewaju is a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa. He aims to advance economic knowledge and contribute to meaningful development economics policy research through collaboration with other team members.

Employment

• University of South Africa Postdoctoral Fellow
  2023 - 2026
• LarryGold Data Science Senior Data Analyst & Consultant
  2020 - Present
• Tshwane University of Technology Part-Time Lecturer
  2018 - 2019
• University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Sessional Lecturer/Researcher
  2016 - 2023
• The Kola Scholars (TKS) Project Coordinator
  2013 - 2015
• College Of Business Administration and Maritime Studies Part-Time Senior Lecturer
  2012 - 2013
• Babcock University Lecturer
  2011 - 2015
• Olabisi Onabanjo University Assistant Lecturer
  2004 - 2011

Education

• University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg PhD
  2014 - 2022
• Ambrose Alli University MSc
  2005 - 2007
• Olabisi Onabanjo University BSc
  1997 - 2002

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (22)

• Climate change and environmental degradation: Evidence from SADC countries
  PLOS One 2026 1 citation DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0346018
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• Estimation of Firm Labour Productivity and Sales Growth from Artificial Intelligence in Sub-Saharan African Countries
  F1000Research 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.179912.1
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• The Effect of the Number of Children on Mother’s Labour Income in South Africa
  Proceedings of The Global Conference on Gender Studies 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.33422/genderconf.v2i1.932
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• The effect of women's decision-making on child nutritional outcomes in South Africa
  Economics & Human Biology 2024 6 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101355
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• Women’s autonomy and old age pension transfer in South Africa
  Gender, Technology and Development 2023 1 citation DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2023.2204631
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• Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries
  2023 4 citations DOI: 10.14293/SBLUNISA.2023a014.oa
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• Socioeconomic impacts of Households’ Vulnerability during COVID-19 Pandemic in South Africa: Application of Tobit and Probit Models
  HighTech and Innovation Journal 2022 12 citations DOI: 10.28991/HIJ-2022-03-04-02
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• The Causal Effect of Education Policy on Female’s Decision-Making in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigeria Evidence from Nigeria
  The Education Systems of Africa pp 1-17 2020 3 citations DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43042-9_36-1
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• Globalization, Capital Market and Economic Development in Nigeria
  Journal of Governance and Regulation 2015 10 citations DOI: 10.22495/jgr_v4_i4_p6
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• Regional Disparities, Development Agencies and Economic Activity: A Brief
  The Business and Management Review 2014
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