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Edward Asiedu

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Terminal Degree: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (from RePEc Genealogy)

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University of Ghana

Legon, Ghana
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Working papers

  1. Monica Lambon-Quayefio & Thomas Yeboah & Nkechi S. Owoo & Marjan Petreski & Catherine Koranchie & Edward Asiedu & Mohammed Zakaria & Ernest Berko & Yaw Nsiah Agyemang, 2023. "Empirical Review of Youth-Employment Programs in Ghana," Papers 2311.06048, arXiv.org.
  2. Karlan, Dean & Asiedu, Edward & Lambon-Quayefio, Monica & Udry, Christopher, 2021. "A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers," CEPR Discussion Papers 15725, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Toyin Samuel Olowogbon & Raphael Olanrewaju Babatunde & Edward Asiedu, 2019. "How Can Inclusive Agricultural Health Policy Intervention Promote Shared Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from Randomized Control Trial," NBER Working Papers 26043, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Edward Asiedu & Elena Gross, 2017. "Can differences in benefits affect group investment into irrigation projects? Experimental Evidence from Northern Ghana," Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 221, Courant Research Centre PEG.
  5. Asiedu, Edward, 2016. "Coming home without supplies: Impact of household needs on bribe involvement and gender gaps," GlobalFood Discussion Papers 229587, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.
  6. Asiedu, Edward & Ibanez, Marcela, 2014. "The weaker sex? Gender differences in punishment across Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies," GlobalFood Discussion Papers 165743, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.
  7. Asiedu, Edward & Ibanez, Marcela, 2014. "Are the elder more effective implementing punishment? Experimental evidence from urban Ghana," GlobalFood Discussion Papers 175303, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.

Articles

  1. Monica Lambon-Quayefio & Edward Asiedu & Francesca Truffa & Ashley Wong, 2025. "Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship: Business Networks and Collaborations in Ghana," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 115, pages 495-499, May.
  2. Mary Boatemaa Setrana & Joseph K. Teye & Ebenezer G. A. Nikoi & Edward Asiedu & Charity Osei-Amponsah & Emmanuel Yakass, 2025. "Does Social Transformation Drive Out-Migration? Perceptions and Changes," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-17, April.
  3. Edward Asiedu & Dorcas Sowah & Amin Karimu, 2024. "Impact of national health insurance enrolment on farm investments in Sub-Saharan Africa: empirical evidence from Ghana," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 84(4/5), pages 320-341, September.
  4. Asiedu, Edward & Karimu, Amin & Iddrisu, Abdul Ganiyu, 2024. "Structural changes in African households: Female-headed households and Children's educational investments in an imperfect credit market in Africa," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 68(C), pages 30-42.
  5. Kathrin Durizzo & Edward Asiedu & Antoinette van der Merwe & Isabel Günther, 2022. "Economic Recovery but Stagnating Mental Health During a Global Pandemic? Evidence from Ghana and South Africa," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 68(2), pages 563-589, June.
  6. Enoch Yao Vukey & Irene S. Egyir & Edward Asiedu & Nana Afranaa Kwapong, 2021. "Increasing rice productivity in Ghana: Do savings with rural and community banks matter?," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 82(4), pages 597-615, June.
  7. Durizzo, Kathrin & Asiedu, Edward & Van der Merwe, Antoinette & Van Niekerk, Attie & Günther, Isabel, 2021. "Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
  8. Edward Asiedu & Dean Karlan & Monica Lambon-Quayefio & Christopher Udry, 2021. "A call for structured ethics appendices in social science papers," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118(29), pages 2024570118-, July.
  9. Edward Asiedu, 2020. "Household services, social norms and bribe involvements? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," International Journal of Development Issues, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 19(2), pages 229-253, May.
  10. Asiedu, Edward & Sadekla, Sylvester S. & Bokpin, Godfred A., 2020. "Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital: Empirical evidence and implications for post-COVID-19 food insecurity," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 20(C).
  11. Edward Asiedu & Nurokinan Chimbar, 2020. "Impact of remittances on male and female labor force participation patterns in Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Ghana," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(3), pages 1009-1026, August.
  12. Breuer, Anita & Asiedu, Edward, 2017. "Can Gender-Targeted Employment Interventions Help Enhance Community Participation? Evidence from Urban Togo," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 390-407.

Chapters

  1. Edward Asiedu & Mohammed Amidu & Osman Babamu Halidu, 2024. "The Impact of Natural Resource Depletion on Climate Change Vulnerability and Income Inequalities in Africa," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Mohammed Amidu & Abdallah Ali-Nakyea & Joshua Yindenaba Abor (ed.), Taxation and Management of Natural Resources in Africa, pages 421-460, Springer.
  2. Zangina Isshaq & Mohammed Amidu & Aisha Mohammed Sissy & Edward Asiedu, 2024. "Economics of Peace: Can Extraction of Oil and Gas Lead to Sustainable Peace?," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Mohammed Amidu & Abdallah Ali-Nakyea & Joshua Yindenaba Abor (ed.), Taxation and Management of Natural Resources in Africa, pages 299-324, Springer.
  3. Osman Babamu Halidu & Mohammed Amidu & Edward Asiedu & Nicholas Asare, 2024. "Effective and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Africa: The Roles of Environmental Tax and Public Participation," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Mohammed Amidu & Abdallah Ali-Nakyea & Joshua Yindenaba Abor (ed.), Taxation and Management of Natural Resources in Africa, pages 175-223, Springer.
  4. Edward Asiedu, 2022. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Exploring Potential Impacts and Developmental Implications," Chapters, in: Muhammad Mohiuddin & Jingbin Wang & Md. Samim Al Azad & Selim Ahmed (ed.), Global Trade in the Emerging Business Environment, IntechOpen.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Karlan, Dean & Asiedu, Edward & Lambon-Quayefio, Monica & Udry, Christopher, 2021. "A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers," CEPR Discussion Papers 15725, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

    Cited by:

    1. Karlan, Dean & Horn, Samantha & Jamison, Julian C. & Zinman, Jonathan, 2020. "Does lasting behavior change require knowledge change? Evidence from savings interventions for young adults," CEPR Discussion Papers 15392, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Robert Dur & Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez & Cornel Nesseler, 2022. "How to reduce discrimination? Evidence from a field experiment in amateur soccer," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 22-005/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
    3. Bandiera, Oriana & Burgess, Robin & Deserranno, Erika & Morel, Ricardo & Rasul, Imran & Sulaiman, Munshi & Thiemel, Jack, 2022. "Microfinance and diversification," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123921, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
      • Bandiera, Oriana & Burgess, Robin & Deserranno, Erika & Morel, Ricardo & Rasul, Imran & Sulaiman, Munshi & Thiemel, Jack, 2022. "Microfinance and Diversification," CEPR Discussion Papers 17081, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
      • Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Erika Deserranno & Ricardo Morel & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman & Jack Thiemel, 2022. "Microfinance and Diversification," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 89(S1), pages 239-275, June.
    4. Coville,Aidan & Galiani,Sebastian Franco & Gertler,Paul J. & Yoshida,Susumu, 2021. "Financing Municipal Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9725, The World Bank.
    5. Gulzar, Saad & Khan, Muhammad Yasir, 2021. ""Good Politicians'': Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance," SocArXiv z9d3f, Center for Open Science.
    6. Kuhnt, Jana & Kaplan, Lennart & Garcia-Hernandez, Ana & Leininger, Julia & Steinert, Janina I., 2025. "Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 37(C).
    7. David K. Evans, 2021. "Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, François Roubaud (Eds.) Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective Oxford University Press, 2020, 448 p., $100.00," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 47(2), pages 551-554, June.
    8. Lee Crawfurd & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Justin Sandefur, 2021. "Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone," Working Papers 591, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Jun 2023.
    9. Krafft, Caroline, 2025. "Do employers discriminate against married women? Evidence from a field experiment in Egypt," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).

  2. Asiedu, Edward & Ibanez, Marcela, 2014. "The weaker sex? Gender differences in punishment across Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies," GlobalFood Discussion Papers 165743, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, GlobalFood, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.

    Cited by:

    1. Jung , Seeun & Vranceanu, Radu, 2015. "Gender Interaction in Teams: Experimental Evidence on Performance and Punishment Behavior," ESSEC Working Papers WP1513, ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School.
    2. Philip J. Grossman & Catherine Eckel & Mana Komai & Wei Zhan, 2016. "It Pays to Be a Man: Rewards for Leaders in a Coordination Game," Monash Economics Working Papers 38-16, Monash University, Department of Economics.
    3. Ariel Ben Yishay & Pauline Grosjean & Joe Vecci, 2016. "The Fish is the Friend of Matriliny: Reef Density and Matrilineal Inheritance," Discussion Papers 2016-20, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales.

Articles

  1. Asiedu, Edward & Karimu, Amin & Iddrisu, Abdul Ganiyu, 2024. "Structural changes in African households: Female-headed households and Children's educational investments in an imperfect credit market in Africa," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 68(C), pages 30-42.

    Cited by:

    1. Manhisse, Nelson & Ogawa, Keiichi, 2024. "Smallholder households and children’s schooling in primary education in Mozambique," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).

  2. Kathrin Durizzo & Edward Asiedu & Antoinette van der Merwe & Isabel Günther, 2022. "Economic Recovery but Stagnating Mental Health During a Global Pandemic? Evidence from Ghana and South Africa," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 68(2), pages 563-589, June.

    Cited by:

    1. Ashley Burdett & Apostolos Davillas & Ben Etheridge, 2021. "Weather, mental health, and mobility during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(9), pages 2296-2306, September.

  3. Durizzo, Kathrin & Asiedu, Edward & Van der Merwe, Antoinette & Van Niekerk, Attie & Günther, Isabel, 2021. "Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Ulugbek Aminjonov & Olivier Bargain & Tanguy Bernard, 2023. "Gimme shelter. Social distancing and income support in times of pandemic," Post-Print hal-04155772, HAL.
    2. Czura, Kristina & Englmaier, Florian & Ho, Hoa & Spantig, Lisa, 2022. "Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19: Evidence from India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    3. Noraziani Khamis & Intan Syafinaz Saimy & Nor Hayati Ibrahim & Nur Khairah Badaruddin & Nor Zam Azihan Mohd Hassan & Faridah Kusnin & Sukhvinder Singh Sandhu & Masitah Mohamed, 2021. "Progression of the Pathway for Public Health Care during the COVID-19 Outbreak at District Health Office," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-18, October.
    4. Martha Alter CHEN & Erofili GRAPSA & Ghida ISMAIL & Michael ROGAN & Marcela VALDIVIA & Laura ALFERS & Jenna HARVEY & Ana Carolina OGANDO & Sarah Orleans REED & Sally ROEVER, 2022. "COVID‐19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 161(1), pages 29-58, March.
    5. Bardosh, Kevin & Jean, Lorence & Desir, Luccene & Yoss, Sarah & Poovey, Brianna & Beau de Rochars, Madsen Valerie & Noland, Gregory S., 2023. "Was lockdown worth it? community perspectives and experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic in remote southwestern Haiti," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 331(C).
    6. Bargain, Olivier & Aminjonov, Ulugbek, 2021. "Poverty and COVID-19 in Africa and Latin America," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    7. Kathrin Durizzo & Edward Asiedu & Antoinette van der Merwe & Isabel Günther, 2022. "Economic Recovery but Stagnating Mental Health During a Global Pandemic? Evidence from Ghana and South Africa," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 68(2), pages 563-589, June.
    8. Ouoba, Youmanli & Sawadogo, Natéwindé, 2022. "Food security, poverty and household resilience to COVID-19 in Burkina Faso: Evidence from urban small traders’ households," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 25(C).

  4. Edward Asiedu & Dean Karlan & Monica Lambon-Quayefio & Christopher Udry, 2021. "A call for structured ethics appendices in social science papers," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118(29), pages 2024570118-, July.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Edward Asiedu, 2020. "Household services, social norms and bribe involvements? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," International Journal of Development Issues, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 19(2), pages 229-253, May.

    Cited by:

    1. Changwatchai, Piyaphan & Dheera-aumpon, Siwapong, 2023. "Culture and bribe giving: Evidence from firm-level data," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).

  6. Asiedu, Edward & Sadekla, Sylvester S. & Bokpin, Godfred A., 2020. "Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital: Empirical evidence and implications for post-COVID-19 food insecurity," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 20(C).

    Cited by:

    1. Tomas Baležentis & Mangirdas Morkūnas & Agnė Žičkienė & Artiom Volkov & Erika Ribašauskienė & Dalia Štreimikienė, 2021. "Policies for Rapid Mitigation of the Crisis’ Effects on Agricultural Supply Chains: A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System with Monte Carlo Simulation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-31, October.
    2. Haldar, Anasuya & Sethi, Narayan, 2022. "Effect of sectoral foreign aid allocation on growth and structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa—Analysing the roles of institutional quality and human capital," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 1010-1026.
    3. Zhang, Yunhui & Zhao, Wei, 2024. "Social capital's role in mitigating economic vulnerability: Understanding the impact of income disparities on farmers' livelihoods," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).

  7. Edward Asiedu & Nurokinan Chimbar, 2020. "Impact of remittances on male and female labor force participation patterns in Africa: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Ghana," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(3), pages 1009-1026, August.

    Cited by:

    1. Arian Tahiri & Faruk Ahmeti & Burim Prenaj, 2023. "The Effect of International Migrant Remittances on Employment Patterns: Evidence from Kosovo," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 1, pages 126-142.
    2. Folorunsho M. Ajide & Tolulope T. Osinubi, 2022. "Foreign aid and entrepreneurship in Africa: the role of remittances and institutional quality," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 55(1), pages 193-224, February.
    3. Bettin, Giulia & Massidda, Carla & Piras, Romano, 2024. "The intertwined role of social and financial remittances in new firms' creation," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(1).
    4. Ofori, Pamela E. & Ofori, Isaac K. & Castelnovo, Paolo, 2024. "Effects of Innovation and Economic Freedom on Female Economic Inclusion," EconStor Preprints 298786, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    5. Musakwa, Mercy T, 2023. "The dynamic causal relationship between remittances, fertility and unemployment in South Africa," Working Papers 31198, University of South Africa, Department of Economics.
    6. Yang, Wei & Vatsa, Puneet & Ma, Wanglin & Zheng, Hongyun, 2023. "Does mobile payment adoption really increase online shopping expenditure in China: A gender-differential analysis," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 99-110.
    7. Ofori, Pamela E. & Ofori, Isaac K. & Castelnovo, Paolo, 2024. "Effects of Innovation and Economic Freedom on Female Economic Inclusion," MPRA Paper 121244, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  8. Breuer, Anita & Asiedu, Edward, 2017. "Can Gender-Targeted Employment Interventions Help Enhance Community Participation? Evidence from Urban Togo," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 390-407.

    Cited by:

    1. Yselle Malah Kuete, 2023. "Framing the change: analysing employment change, (in)adequacy, and (de)feminization in Cameroon's tertiary firms," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-108, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Tushar Bharati & Yiwei Qian & Jeonghwan Yun, 2020. "Fueling the Engines of Liberation with Cleaner Cooking Fuel," Economics Discussion / Working Papers 20-03, The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics.
    3. Kuhnt, Jana & Kaplan, Lennart & Garcia-Hernandez, Ana & Leininger, Julia & Steinert, Janina I., 2025. "Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 37(C).
    4. Eger, Claudia & Fetzer, Thiemo & Peck, Jennifer & Alodayni, Saleh, 2022. "Organizational, economic or cultural? Firm-side barriers to employing women in Saudi Arabia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
    5. Laszlo, Sonia & Grantham, Kate & Oskay, Ecem & Zhang, Tingting, 2020. "Grappling with the challenges of measuring women's economic empowerment in intrahousehold settings," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 7 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-AFR: Africa (3) 2015-02-11 2016-01-18 2016-01-29
  2. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (2) 2015-02-11 2015-02-11
  3. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (2) 2016-01-18 2016-01-29
  4. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (2) 2015-02-11 2015-02-11
  5. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (2) 2015-02-11 2015-02-11
  6. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (2) 2021-02-15 2021-05-17
  7. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (2) 2015-02-11 2015-02-11
  8. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2019-07-22
  9. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 2015-02-11
  10. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2019-07-22
  11. NEP-INV: Investment (1) 2023-12-11
  12. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2016-01-18
  13. NEP-RES: Resource Economics (1) 2015-02-11

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