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Nkechi S. Owoo

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor of Economics, University of Ghana ORCID 0000-0002-5220-9733 Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Demographic EconomicsHealth EconomicsClimate ChangeGender EconomicsSpatial Econometrics
Publications

100

Citations

2,273

H-index

21

i10-index

37

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
22.7
Most cited paper
1,032
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 22:50
Publications

100 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Industrial policy in Ghana
NS Owoo, J Page
2017 Aryeetey and Kanbur eds.(2017), 176-191, 2017 Social Sciences 19
Does job security affect fertility and fertility intentions in Ghana? Examining the evidence
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio
2022 Journal of Family and Economic Issues 43 (1), 86-99, 2022 Social Sciences 17
A scoping review on incentives for adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes. Nature Sustainability, 3 (10), 809-820
V Piñeiro, J Arias, J Dürr, P Elverdin, AM Ibáñez, A Kinengyere, ...
2020 Agriculture 17
Exploring firm performance and growth among own-account and micro enterprises in Ghana
NS Owoo, AD Oduro, C Ackah
2019 International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 38 (3), 294-311, 2019 Social Sciences 14
Understanding why households foster-in children: Evidence from Ghana
D Asuman, L Boakye-Yiadom, NS Owoo
2018 African social science Review 9 (1), 6, 2018 Social Sciences 13
Ghana’s Experiments with Business–Government Coordination
E Aryeetey, N Owoo
2015 The Practice of Industrial Policy 255, 2015 Social Sciences 13
Righting the ills of budget preparation, implementation and oversight in Ghana
JK Kwakye
2014 Social Sciences 13
Child labour, future earnings and occupation choice: evidence from Ghana
MP Lambon-Quayefio, NS Owoo
2018 International Journal of Social Economics 45 (12), 1590-1608, 2018 Social Sciences 12
Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa
AB Metzler, R Nathvani, V Sharmanska, W Bai, S Moulds, NS Owoo, ...
2025 Science of The Total Environment 988, 179739, 2025 Social Sciences 11
Women's earnings and domestic work among couples in Ghana
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio, SE Gyan, AD Oduro
2022 African Review of Economics and Finance 14 (1), 26-55, 2022 Social Sciences 11
Empirical Review of Youth Employment Programmes in Ghana
M Lambon-Quayefio, T Yeboah, NS Owoo, M Petreski, E Asiedu, E Berko, ...
2025 Youth Employment Programmes in Africa, 37-62, 2025 Social Sciences 10
Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
NS Owoo, W Naudé
2014 IZA Discussion Papers, 2014 Agriculture 10
Union ‘facilitation effect’and access to non-wage benefits in the Ghanaian labour market
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio, J Dávalos, SB Manu
2020 Oxford Development Studies 48 (3), 240-255, 2020 Social Sciences 9
Documenting the perspectives of Sub-Saharan African policy makers, researchers, and activists on the reproductive rights, population dynamics, and environmental sustainability …
C Delacroix, NS Owoo
2023 World 4 (4), 758-775, 2023 Social Sciences 8
Effect of national health insurance holding on the choice of health facility for childbirth in Ghana
S Mubarik, S Al-hassan, NS Owoo, L Boakye-Yiadom
2016 Science Publishing Group, 2016 Health Sciences 7
Being overweight and its association with risky sexual behaviour among female youth in Ghana
AK Christian, AAE Biney, DY Atiglo, ND Dodoo, AD Obeng-Dwamena, ...
2021 SN Social Sciences 1 (3), 79, 2021 Social Sciences 6
Couple’s Decision-Making Power, Women’s Labour Market Outcomes, and Asset Ownership
NS Owoo
2022 Population Research and Policy Review 41 (6), 2365-2391, 2022 Social Sciences 5
An Empirical Assessment of the Union'Facilitation Effect'in the Ghanaian Labor Market
N Owoo, M Lambon-Quayefio, J Dávalos, S Manu
2017 Partnership for Economic Policy Working Paper, 2017 Social Sciences 4
Effects of higher spousal earnings on women's social empowerment in Ghana
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio, NA Onuoha
2020 Forum for Social Economics 49 (2), 139-165, 2020 Social Sciences 3
Women Earnings and Household Division of Labour Among Couples in Ghana
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio, S Gyan, AD Oduro
2020 African Review of Economics and Finance 14 (1), 26-55, 2020 Social Sciences 3
Nonfarm enterprise participation and healthcare expenditure among farm households in rural Ghana
S Ampaw, E Nketiah-Amponsah, NS Owoo, B Senadza
2019 International Journal of Social Economics 46 (1), 18-30, 2019 Social Sciences 3
The role of demographic and socioeconomic factors, leave policy and government institutions in CS deliveries in Ghana
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio, NA Onuoha
2017 Journal of Public Health 25 (5), 557-564, 2017 Health Sciences 3
Industries without Smokestacks: The Agro-Processing Industry in Ghana-Evolution, Public Policy and Contribution to the Ghanaian Economy
NS Owoo, MP Lambon-Quayefio
2015 A UNU-Wider Project, 2015 Social Sciences 3
Spatial inequality—Multidimensional inequalities across space
N Owoo, M Shifa, V Ranchhod, M Zhang
2025 Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multidimensional perspectives and future …, 2025 Social Sciences 2
Interventions to Promote Health and Reproductive Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa and Other Developing Countries
NS Owoo
2024 Health Sciences 2