Priscilla Twumasi Baffour

Senior Lecturer

Contact info ptbaffour@ug.edu.gh

About

Areas of Specialization
Labour markets, Economics of Skill Development and Education, Applied Microeconometrics, Poverty and Inequality and Development Economics.
Courses Currently Taught 

Graduate Level
Econ 702: Applied Econometrics (PhD)
Econ 631: Labour Economics I (M.Phil.)
Econ 632: Labour Economics II (M.Phil.)
EPMP 637: Development Economics (M.A.)

Undergraduate Level
Econ 469: Labour Economics I
Econ 462: Labour Economics II
Econ 322: Microeconomics I
Econ 324: Macroeconomics II

Education

PhD in Economics: University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (2010 –2014) 
MPhil. in Economics: University of Ghana (2004 – 2006)
B.A Economics: University of Ghana (1999 – 2003)
Senior Secondary: Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Secondary School (1995-1997)

Research Interest

Labour markets, education and skills training, gender and inequality, structural transformation enterprise development, applied microeconometrics and development.

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Alderman, H., Aurino, E., Twumasi Baffour, P., Gelli, A., Turkson, F. E., & Wong, B. (2025). Assessing the overall benefits of programs enhancing human capital and equity: A new method with an application to school meals. Economics of Education Review, 106, 102646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102646
  2. Twerefou, D.K., Abeney, J.O., Toman, M.A., Twumasi Baffour P & Turkson F.E. (2025) Household electricity consumption efficiency and poverty: Evidence from Ghana. Energy Efficiency 18, 15 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-025-10299-0
  3. Azigi, E., & Twumasi Baffour, P. (2024). Digitalization and Employment among Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana. Journal of Economics, Finance and Sustainability, 2(2), 100-120. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14562410
  4. Owusu-Afriyie J., Twumasi Baffour P. & William Baah-Boateng (2023). Estimating public and private sectors’ union wage effects in Ghana: is there a disparity? International Journal of Social Economics. DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-01-2023-0045
  5. Owusu-Afriyie J., Twumasi Baffour P. & William Baah-Boateng (2023). Union wage effect: Evidence from Ghana. Cogent Economics & Finance, 11:2, 2231208, https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2023.2231208
  6. Abdul Rahaman W., Mohammed I., Turkson F.E. & Twumasi Baffour P. (2023). Influences of parental occupation on children’s occupation choices. International Journal of Social Economics. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-10-2022-0705.
  7. Twumasi Baffour P. & Abbey E, (2023). Precarious work in the formal sector – Evidence from Ghana. World Development Perspective, volume 29, March 2023, 100492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2023.100492.
  8. Turkson, F. E., Oduro, A. D., Baffour, P., & Quartey, P. (2023). Regional integration and non-tariff barriers to Intra-Sub-Saharan Africa trade. The World Economy, Vol 26, Issue 2. Pages 396-414, February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13365
  9. E. Aryeetey & P. Twumasi Baffour (2022). African Competitiveness and the Business Environment: Does Manufacturing Still Have a Role to Play? Journal of African Economies, Volume 31, Issue Supplement_1, September 2022, Pages i33–i58, https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac019.
  10. Twumasi Baffour P., Quartey P. & Adu-Danso E. (2022). The effects of innovation on the quantity and quality of jobs: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, Innovation and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2022.2116784
  11. Atitsogbui E., Boakye Yiadom L. & Twumasi Baffour P. (2022). International migration from Ghana: A gender analysis of the determinants. Ghanaian Journal of Economics Vol.10 (2022), 63-83 ISSN: 2309-8945.
  12. Nketiah-Amponsah E., Ampaw S. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2022). Socioeconomic determinants of use and choice of modern contraceptive methods in Ghana. Tropical Medicine and Health (2022) 50:33 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00424-5
  13. Mohammed I., Twumasi Baffour P. and Abdul Rahaman W. and (2021). Gender Differences in Earnings Rewards to Personality Traits in Wage-employment and Self-employment Labour Markets. Management and Labour Studies, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0258042X21989944.
  14. Twumasi Baffour P., Abdul Rahaman W. and Mohammed I. (2020). Impact of Mobile Money Access on Internal Remittances, Consumption Expenditure and Household Welfare in Ghana. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEAS-04-2020-0045.
  15. Baah-Boatenga W., Twum E. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2019). Whom you know” and Labour Market Outcomes: An Empirical Investigation in Ghana. Ghanaian Journal of Economics, Vol. 7, December 2019.
  16. Nketiah-Amponsah E., Abubakari M. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2019). Effect of HIV/AIDS on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Evidence. International Advances in Economic Research, https://doi/10.1007/s11294-019-09754-3.
  17. Abdul Rahaman W., Mohammed I. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2019). Simulating the poverty impact of rising food prices on rural household poverty in Ghana. International Journal of Statistics and Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 1.  
  18. Mohammed I., Abdul Rahaman W. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2019). The role of personality traits in predicting days lost due to illness: Evidence from the World Bank’s Skills toward Employment and Productivity Survey. International Review of Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12232-019-00336-7.
  19. Twumasi Baffour P., Mohammed I. and Abdul Rahaman W. (2019). Personality and gender differences in revealed risk preference: evidence from Ghana.  International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 46 Issue: 5, pp.631-647, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-07-2018-0346
  20. Twumasi Baffour P., Turkson F. E., Gyeke-Dako A., Oduro A. and Emmanuel Abbey (2018). Innovation and Employment in Manufacturing and Service Firms in Ghana. Small Business Economics Journal (2018),  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0120-7. ISSN: 0921-898X (Print) 1573-0913 (Online).
  21. Gyeke-Dako A, Agbloyor, E.K., Turkson F. E., and Twumasi Baffour P. (2018). Financial Development and Social Cost of Financial Intermediation in Africa. Journal of African Business, pp. 455-474, https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2018.1446642
  22. Twumasi Baffour P. and Quartey Peter (2016). A Gendered Perspective of Underemployment in Ghana. Ghana Social Science Journal, Special issue on Good Governance and Sustainable Development Goals, Vol.13, no.2. pp. 209-231.
  23. Twumasi Baffour P. (2016). Education and Earnings Inequality in Ghana. Modern Economy 2016, 7, 456-469.
  24. Twumasi Baffour P. and Turkson, F.E. (2015). Selection into Employment Sectors in Urban Ghana and Tanzania: The Role of Education. Research in World Economy, Sciedu Press, Vol. 6(4), 78-92.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Twumasi Baffour, P. (2024). Trade and the labour market in Africa. In M. K. Ocran & J. Y. Abor (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Trade and Development in Africa (pp. 57–70). Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. Twumasi Baffour P. & Ackah C.G (2021). Employment Vulnerabilities and the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. In The Socio-Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ghana 2020-2021.
  3. Twumasi Baffour P. (2014). Determinants of Urban Worker Earnings in Ghana: The Role of Education. in D.K. Twerefour, P. Quartey, L. Boakye-Yiadom and W. Baah-Boateng (Eds.) Readings on Key Economic Issues in Ghana, University of Ghana Reader, Social Science Vol.4. Digibooks, Accra.

Working Papers

  1. Aryeetey, E., Twumasi Baffour P. and Turkson F.E. (2021). Employment creation potential, labour skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: Ghana case study. Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings Institution. AGI Working Paper 30. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21.06.28-IWOSS-Ghana.pdf
  2. Twumasi Baffour P., Turkson F.E., Mohammed I. and Rahaman W.A. (2021). Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices: Are there gender differences in Ghana? UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2021/66. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2021/004-7.
  3. Turkson F.E., Twumasi Baffour P. and Wong B. (2020). Cost-benefit analysis of interventions to improve learning in Ghanaian schools: A comparison between School Feeding and Teaching at the Right Level. Copenhagen Consensus Centre – Ghana Priorities. https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/gp_a4_education_i_primary_final.pdf
  4. Turkson F.E., Twumasi Baffour P. and Wong B. (2020). Cost-benefit analysis of an intervention to accelerate the end of the double track system at the Senior High School level: provision of government subsidies to children to attend private schools. Copenhagen Consensus Centre – Ghana Priorities. https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/gp_a4_education_ii_shs_final.pdf
  5. Gyeke-Dako A, Oduro A, Turkson F. E., Abbey, E. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2017) Ghana’s Participation in Global Value Chains: The Employment Effects R4D Working Paper 2017/5.
  6. Twumasi Baffour P., Gyeke-Dako A, Oduro A, Turkson F. E. and Abbey, E. (2017) The Employment Generating Effects of Exporting: Firm level evidence of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Ghana. R4D Working Paper 2017/2
  7. Gyeke-Dako A, Oduro A, Turkson F. E., and Twumasi Baffour P. (2017). Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Upgrading among Manufacturing Firms in Ghana. R4D Working Paper 2017/1.
  8. Gyeke-Dako A, Oduro A, Turkson F. E., Abbey, E. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2016). Patterns in the Innovative Activities of Ghanaian Manufacturing and Services Firms”, R4D Working Paper 2016/8.
  9. Gyeke-Dako A., Oduro A., Turkson, F. E., Abbey, and Twumasi Baffour P. (2016). The Effect of Technological Innovation on the Quantity and Quality of Employment in Ghana. R4D Working Paper 2016/9.
  10. Gyeke-Dako A., Oduro, A., Turkson, F.E. and Twumasi Baffour P. (2015) Employment Effects of Different Development Policy Instruments: The Case of Ghana.      R4D Working Paper 2015/1.