PUBLICATIONS
Mensah, E. R., Shinde, N., Kakpo, A. T., & Djenontin, I. N. (2024). The human well-being outcomes of tree plantations in sub-Saharan Africa: A reassessment of evidence using longitudinal subnational-year data. Forest Policy and Economics, 160, 103141.
Agossou, A. C. O., N’Danikou, S., Fassinou Hotègni, V. N., Kakpo, T. A., Coulibaly, M., Oselebe, H. O., & Achigan-Dako, E. G. (2023). Determinants of farmers’ willingness to pay for improved cultivars of Macrotyloma geocarpum (harms) Maréchal and Baudet in Benin and Togo. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1180961.
Kakpo A, Mills B and Brunelin S. (2022). Weather Shocks and Food Price Seasonality in Sub Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger. Food Policy, 112, 102347.
Neill C, Kakpo A, and Mack R. (2021). The Role of Experience, Specialty Certification, and Ownership on the Gender Wage Gap for Veterinarians. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. March 2021.
WORKING PAPERS
Climate Change, Technology Adoption and Cropland Expansion (With Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong) (SUBMITTED).
Droughts and Livestock Commercialization: Income Smoothing or Precautionary Savings? (With Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong) (SUBMITTED)
Turning Up The Heat: Extreme Heat and Labour Implications in West Africa (With Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong and Jourdain Lokossou) (Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics)
Misperceptions of Climatic Shocks and Implications for Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from Niger (With Jourdain Lokossou and Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong)
Weather shocks and smallholder market participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from millet farmers in Niger (with Brad Mills and Stéphanie Brunelin).
Young Adult Field Access and Yields in the Senegal Groundnut Basin (With Bradford Mills)
Household Water Insecurity, Trust and Participation in Water-Related Collective Action in Malawi’s Urban Informal Settlements (With Ellis Adams and Godfred Boateng)
The Impacts of Early Life Exposure to Extreme Heat on Educational and Employment Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Improving Early Warning Systems for Food Crises in the Sahel Region with Machine Learning (With Noureini Sayouti, Modhurima Dey Amin and Edouard Mensah)
Too Hot to Heal? Extreme Temperature Shocks and Malaria Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa
PRESENTATIONS
2024 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Conference, Paper Presentation July 28-30th, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
2024 Western Economic Association International Conference, Paper Presentation, June 29-July 3, Seattle, Washington
2024 Northwest Development Workshop (Paper Presentation), Department of Economics, University of Washington, May 2024.
2023 Pacific Conference for Development Economics (Poster Presentation), University of Washington, March 2023.
2021 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Meetings, Austin, TX, August 2021.
Applied Economics Policy Seminar, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, May 2021.
2021 Conference of the Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, March 2021.
2020 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Meetings, Kansas City, MO., August 2020;
6th Canadian Ph.D. and Early Career Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, York University, July 2020;
Graduate Student Seminar Series, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, November 2019.
Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, Fall 2015.