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Nkechi Owoo

    University of Ghana

Nkechi S. Owoo is a Health and Demographic Economist at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana. She holds an MA and PhD in Economics from Clark University, Massachusetts, USA.
Her main areas of research are poverty and inequality analysis, health and demographic economics and spatial econometrics.
Areas of Specialisation: Health and Demographic Economics, Poverty Analysis, Inequality Analysis, Economics of the Household, Spatial Econometrics.

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Related Projects

  • Differential Earnings, Household Division of Labour and Fertility Choices: An Application of the “Doing Gender” Hypothesis in Ghana

Related Publications

  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 33

    The Effects of Differential Spousal Earnings on Domestic Work and Intimate Partner Abuse in Ghana
  • G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 34

    The Socioeconomic and Reproductive Health Effects of Unequal Domestic Work on Women in Ghana

Published Articles

  • African Review of Economics and Finance 14(1), 26-55

    Women’s earnings and domestic work among couples in Ghana
  • PLoS ONE 16(2)

    Mixed methods exploration of Ghanaian women’s domestic work, childcare and effects on their mental health

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