Research

"The 2015/16 El Niño Drought Impacts and Household Coping Strategies: Gender-based perspective" job market paper [under review]

Abstract: South Africa's 2015/16 El Niño drought, the most severe in two decades, exposed household vulnerabilities over time and across gender. Using a household panel spanning 2010 to 2017 merged with gridded drought data, I combine Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and fixed effects estimation to trace how drought impacts on food security and adaptation expenditure evolve over time and heterogeneity by household gender headship. The first set of results reveal a significant food security gaps between household types (24%) and its are driven entirely by structural inequalities in education, income, and employment rather than drought exposure itself. The drought's impacts show that male-headed households suffer more severe immediate shocks (15.1 pp reduction in food security), yet female-headed households bear disproportionately larger persistent burdens as the drought endures (11.8 pp). Critically, the drought triggers significant dietary deterioration, with children in male-headed households experiencing worse anthropometric outcomes than their counterparts in female-headed households. These findings reveal that climate shocks are neither gender-neutral nor time-invariant, carrying direct implications for designing targeted social protection and climate adaptation policies in developing economies.

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Tetteh, B., & Baidoo, S. T. (2022). Environmental degradation, energy use, and globalization in Ghana: New empirical evidence from regime switching and neural network autoregression models. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 18(1), 679-695. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2110680 (Ranking: Q1 Journal)

United Nations Environment Programme (2023). Global Cooling Watch 2023: Keeping it Chill: How to meet cooling demands while cutting emissions. Nairobi. Researcher. The report was instrumental in the adoption of the Global Cooling Pledge. 

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