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Refereed Publications (Google Scholar)

2025

• "Does cellphone banking change lives? Fintech, and poverty in Kenya", with Valentina Hartarska, 2025. World Development.

• "Trade and Development Implications of the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act", with Wenying Li and Wendiam Sawadgo, 2025. Applied Economics.

2024

• "Virtual water trade: Does bilateral tariff matter?", with Rui Chen, Wenying Li, and Norbert Wilson, 2024. Ecological Economics. 

• "US trade policy and public health: heterogeneous effects from the North American Free Trade Agreement", with Wendiam Sawadgo, and Wenying Li, 2024. Public Health Nutrition. 

• "Estimating the Causal Impact of British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Synthetic Control Approach", with Elisha Denkyirah, 2025.  American Review of Canadian Studies. 

• "Effect of Economic Freedom on Women’s Empowerment: Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries" with Elisha Denkyirah, Onyedikachi Chike, and Florence Muhoza, 2024.  Journal of Private Enterprise.

2023

• "Estimating the Unintended Impact of North American Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Public Health", with Wenying Li and Wendiam Sawadgo, 2023. Social Science & Medicine.

2019

• "Economic growth and environmental pollution in West Africa: Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis", with Elisha Denkyirah, 2019. Kasetsart Journal of Social Science.

2018

• "Foreign Aid- Real Exchange rate Nexus: Empirical Evidence from Ghana", with Elisha Denkyirah, 2018.  Cogent Economics and Finance.

• "Application of livelihood vulnerability index in assessing smallholder maize farming households' vulnerability to climate change in Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana", with John Kuwornu, Henry Anim-Somuah, and Nophea Sasaki, 2018. Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences. 

2017

• "Education and economic growth: a co-integration approach" with Elisha Denkyirah, 2017. International Journal of Education Economics and Development.  

•  "What are the drivers of cocoa farmers’ choice of climate change adaptation strategies in Ghana?", with Elisha Denkyirah, Elvis Okoffo, and Asa Bosompem, 2017. Cogent Food & Agriculture. 

2016

• "Modeling Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ decision to use pesticide and frequency of application: the case of Brong Ahafo Region ", with Elisha Denkyirah, Elvis Okoffo, Ahmed Aziz, Amoako Ofori, and Elijah Denkyirah, 2016. SpringerPlus.

•  "A double-hurdle model estimation of cocoa farmers’ willingness to pay for crop insurance in Ghana", with Elvis Okoffo, Elisha Denkyirah, and Benedicta Fosu-Mensah, 2016. SpringerPlus. 

Book Chapters

• The Policy environment of climate change adaptation (with John Kuwornu), In Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Vulnerability and Adaptation of Food Supply Chain Actors; Kuwornu, J.K.M., Ed.; Series on Climate Change and Society; Vernon Press: Wilmington, DE, USA, 2019.  

• General Discussions on the vulnerability and adaptation of food supply chain actors to climate change (with John Kuwornu), In Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Vulnerability and Adaptation of Food Supply Chain Actors; Kuwornu, J.K.M., Ed.; Series on Climate Change and Society; Vernon Press: Wilmington, DE, USA, 2019.   

•  Smallholder maize farmers’ constraints to climate change adaptation strategies in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana (with John Kuwornu, and Avishek Datta) In Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Vulnerability and Adaptation of Food Supply Chain Actors; Kuwornu, J.K.M., Ed.; Series on Climate Change and Society; Vernon Press: Wilmington, DE, USA, 2019.  

Conference Proceedings

• Southern Agricultural  Economics Association Meeting, Irving, Texas, USA. February 1-4, 2025. 

• Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. July 28-30, 2024. 

• Midwest International Trade Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA. November 10-12, 2023. 

•  Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. February 4-8, 2023.

• Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California. USA. July 31-August 2, 2022.

• MANRRS Annual National Conference Jacksonville, Florida, USA. March 23-26, 2022.

• Applied Microeconomics Brown Bag, Department of Economics, Auburn University, AL, USA. September 23, 2020

• Dialogue on Sustainability and Environmental Management, International Conference University of Ghana, Legon Accra, Ghana. February 15-16, 2017.