Research
Master’s Thesis (in progress)
Market Access and Forest Loss in Ghana
Sciences Po, Paris — Supervisor: Prof. Clément Imbert
My ongoing master’s thesis studies how road-induced changes in market access affect forest loss. The project combines a structural trade framework with satellite data, road-network travel times, and a district-year panel for Ghana from 2001 to 2021. Using an instrumental-variable strategy, I examine whether improved connectivity increases pressure to clear land or instead supports agricultural intensification on existing farmland. Preliminary results suggest that better market access reduces forest loss, partly by increasing the use of modern agricultural inputs rather than expanding cultivated area.
Methods: structural trade modelling · panel IV · Google Earth Engine · high-resolution land-cover data.
Working & Submitted Papers
Environmental Pollution Training and Firms’ Actions: The Mediating Role of Green Industrialization Knowledge
With Emmanuel Orkoh, Nicholas Agyei, and Abdulrazaq Daudu — Submitted
Financial Development and Sectoral Growth in Ghana
With Kodom Emmanuel — Working paper
The Political Economy of Government Agricultural Input Credit: Game-Theoretic Insights from Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs Program
Term paper
Undergraduate Thesis
Financial Development and Sectoral Development
KNUST, Ghana (2023) — Supervisor: Dr. Paul Owusu Takyi
Data & Code
Replication materials for completed projects will be posted here and on my GitHub.