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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

2,276

H-index

21

i10-index

37

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
22.8
Most cited paper
1,033
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
15 Sep 2026, 23:23
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
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 11
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
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