on-going research

• The disability pay gap in a developing country: Evidence from Ghana (with Kwadwo Opoku & Frank Agyire-Tettey) 

• Parental responses to child disability: Evidence from Iceland. (with Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir & Johan Jarl)

draft papers (available upon request)

• Schooling and learning outcome of children with disabilities in Ghana. (with Kwadwo Opoku & Charles Godfred Ackah). Under review: Child Indicators Research

• Why are boys shorter than girls in sub-Saharan Africa? The role of birth order and sibling composition. (with Jacob Nunoo & Frank Agyire-Tettey) Under review: Journal of Population Economics.

• Early brides, later grams: The weighty consequences of age at marriage in Ghana (with Mohammed Abubakri & Frank Agyire-Tettey). Submitted to: Economics and Human Biology

• Better late than early: Maternal and intergenerational effects of age-at-marriage in Ghana. (with Abena D. Oduro)

• The sources and evolution of disability gaps in the Swedish labor market, 2001-2015. (with Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Ann Alriksson-Schimdt. Martin Nordin & Johan Jarl) 

publications

• Prescriptions for mental health and the labor market penalties of cerebral palsy. (with Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir & Johan Jarl) Accepted: Economics and Human Biology

• Ineqaulity of opportunity in early childhood deprivations in Ghana. (with Kwadwo Arhin & Frank Agyire-Tettey). Child Indicators Research (2026).

• Parental time poverty and multidimensional child poverty in Ghana . (with Edward Martery, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Daniel Adu Ankrah, Kwabena Krah & Andrew Agyei-Holmes) Social Indicators Research (2026)

• The impact of child disability on parental outcomes: Evidence from Sweden. (with Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Ann Alriksson-Schimdt. Martin Nordin & Johan Jarl) Health Economics (2025)

• Anxious Dads and Depressed Moms: Child Disability and the Mental Health of Parents.  (with Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir & Johan Jarl) Health Economics (2025)

• Gender Gaps in Total Factor Productivity: The Case of Manufacturing SMEs in Ghana. (with Charles Godfred Ackah, Patrick Opoku-Asuming & Frank Agyire-Tettey) Journal of African Business (2025)

• Health literacy and household financial loss on malaria treatment for children under five in Ghana: a patients’ perspective . (with Ofori Boateng, M., Kugbey, N., Amoah,  P.A., Agyei-Baffour, P. & Enemark, U. ) International Health (2025)

• Labour market consequences of an early-onset disability: The case of cerebral palsy. (with Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Ann Alriksson-Schmidt, Martin Nordin & Johan Jarl) Applied Economics (2024)

• Pain and labor outcomes: A longitudinal study of adults with cerebral palsy in Sweden. (with Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Ann Alriksson-Schmidt, Elisabet Rodby-Bousquet, Guro L. Andersen & Johan Jarl) Disability and Health Journal (2023)

• Disability and Household Welfare in Ghana: Costs and Correlates. (with Charles Godfred Ackah & Frank Agyire-Tettey) Journal of Family and Economic Issues (2021)

• Multidimensional Child Poverty in Ghana: Measurement, Determinants and Inequalities. (with Charles Godfred Ackah, Frank Agyire-Tettey & Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko) Child Indicators Research (2021)

• Trends and antecedents of inequalities of maternal healthcare coverage in four East African countries. (with Ama P. Fenny & Doreen N.A. Odame) Journal of International Development (2021)

• Assessing socioeconomic inequalities in the reduction of child stunting in sub-Saharan Africa. (with Charles Godfred Ackah, Ama P. Fenny & Frank Agyire-Tettey) Journal of Public Health (2020)

• Understanding the improvement in full childhood vaccination coverage in Ethiopia using Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis. (with Abraham Wondimu, Qi Cao, Josue Almansa, Maarten J Postma & Marinus van Hulst) Vaccines (2020)

• Assessing the determinants and drivers of multidimensional energy poverty in Ghana. (with Aba O. Crentsil & Ama P. Fenny) Energy Policy (2019)

• Trends and determinants of socioeonomic inequalities in sexual and reproductive health among women in Ghana. (with Frank Agyire-Tettey, Bernadin Senadza & Lucia Addae) International Journal of Development Issues (2019)

• Gender differences in attitudes towards risk: Evidence from entreprenuers in Ghana and Uganda. (with Charles Godfred Ackah, Enoch Randy Aikins & Thomas Twene Sarpong) Journal of Developmental Entrepeneurship (2019)

• Trends and causes of socioeconomic inequalities in maternal healthcare in Ghana, 2003-2014. (with Ama P. Fenny, Aba O. Crentsil & Doreen N.A. Odame) International Journal of Social Economics (2019)

• Gender and the returns to entrepreneurship in Africa. (with Charles Godfred Ackah & Frank Agyire-Tettey) International Journal of Social Economics (2018)

• Inequalities in child immunization coverage in Ghana: evidence from a decomposition analysis. (with Charles Godfred Ackah & Ulrika Enemark) Health Economics Review (2018)

• An Unconditonal Quantile Regression Based Decomposition of Spatial Welfare Inequalities in Ghana. (with Frank Agyire-Tettey &  Charles Godfred Ackah) The Journal of Development Studies (2018)