Sultan Yessirkep

@careaimat

Economist interested in credit risk modeling and model validation

I am interested at gaining professional experience, and learning from/with others while honing skills i have already obtained from my studies.

Career

Experience: 0 years

Experience

Teaching Assistant

Nazarbayev University

A university in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Led tutorials and review sessions for contract theory and microeconomics courses, and supported students with problem sets and exam preparation.

• ECON 403 (Contract Theory): Led tutorials on Knowledge & Belief spaces and game-theoretic applications for a mixed undergraduate/graduate cohort; supported problem set and midterm preparation. • ECON 101 (Microeconomics): Facilitated review sessions on foundational microeconomic principles; addressed student questions on problem sets and exam material.

Mathematics Tutor

Private Instruction

Sep 2025 — Present

Tutors secondary-school mathematics and develops lesson materials and exercises.

• Deliver personalised secondary-school mathematics instruction; develop structured lesson materials and exercises.

Education

BAs in Economics

2022 — 2026

Selected projects

Female Education and Fertility in LMICs

Built a panel dataset covering 129 countries and used Hausman tests, Arellano–Bond GMM, and Two-Way Fixed Effects to study female education and fertility.

Mining Sector Shocks: South African Economy

Aggregated an 85-commodity Social Accounting Matrix, calibrated nested CES production structures, and ran CGE counterfactual simulations of labor shocks and output taxes.

Minimum Wage Policy across OECD Countries

Built a balanced panel of 29 economies for 2000–2022 and tested model robustness using Breusch–Pagan diagnostics and F-tests.

Information Restriction and Strategic Commitment

Formulated a game-theoretic model using information partitions and contention-based payoff functions to analyze player types.

Income Inequality and Crime Rates

Compiled cross-sectional data for 114 countries and built stepwise OLS models, using White tests and Ramsey RESET to assess heteroskedasticity and non-linearity.

Achievements

1st Place, Economics Olympiad

Dasco Consulting Group (sponsor) · 2024

2nd Place, Presidential Olympiad (Astana City Level)

2020

Skills

RPythonStataGAMSLaTeXHTMLMicrosoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)