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Nkechi Owoo

University of Ghana

Dr (Mrs) Nkechi S. Owoo is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana. In her current position, she teaches courses in Micro- and Macro-economics at the
undergraduate level. She also lectures in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics at the graduate level. Dr Owoo has a specialization in spatial econometrics and her research focuses on
microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behaviour, health, agriculture, gender issues and population and demographic economics. As a Mentoree on its Young Scholar’s Program, Dr Owoo has been involved in collaborations with the World Bank. She has also worked with UNU-WIDER/ KOICA on a project involving the relevance and application of Industrial Policy in the context of Africa. Other projects that Dr Owoo has been involved in include the IDRCs GRoW Project and the GENDA project on gender and entrepreneurship development in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. She also worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University.

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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

  • PLoS ONE 16(2)

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

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