Land and Poverty Economist @ the World Bank /
PhD Candidate · JLU Giessen
Eddie Bukin
Land and poverty economist with a decade of research and operational experience in Ukrainian land markets, institutions, and valuation. I combine rigorous impact evaluation with the practical business of making land data usable — from peer-reviewed work on farmland pricing and rental-market efficiency to analysis code adopted by the Ukrainian State Cadaster as the basis for regression-based agricultural land valuation.
Current focus
Three things occupy me at the moment. I am completing a PhD thesis on the natural experiment of land privatization in southern Kazakhstan and its effects on pasture quality, extending it into a district-level evaluation of thirty years of land reform. In parallel, I am developing urban mass-valuation methods for Ukraine, combining real estate listing data with Cadaster and Registry of Rights records in a deliberately data-scarce environment.
At the World Bank’s Global Poverty Department I co-initiated GeoPov, which joins geospatial and micro data to read spatial welfare disparities, and I lead the Bank-wide effort on responsible AI-assisted coding in R and Stata — a course taken by more than six hundred staff.
Impact evaluation Land markets Geospatial · GEE, PostGIS R · Shiny · Stata