Journal articles

Barasa, L. 2025. Mobile money an antidote to petty corruption? A matched difference-in-differences analysis. Information Technology for Development, 31(4): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2025.2525340

Barasa L., & Ahmad, A. 2025. Determinants of mobile customer relationship management adoption and its impact on firm performance in Kenya. Journal of African Business, 26(3): 594-614. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2024.2368315

Branson, N., & Whitelaw, E. 2025. Tracking progress towards gender equity in the South African academic economics pipeline. South African Journal of Economics, 93(3), September 2025: 325-354. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.70000  

Diaz Pabón, F.A. & Ahmed, A.M.B. 2025, December, 16. Africa’s continental AI strategy: A black mirror’s mirage or a fast track for development? In Philipp Hacker (ed.). Oxford Intersections: AI in Society (Oxford, online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Mar. 2025 – current). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0186   

Epo, B.N, Baye, F.M., Mwabu, G., Manda, D.K., Ajakaiye, O., & Kipruto, S. 2025. Human capital, household prosperity, and social inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa. Economies, 13(8): 221. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13080221

Gebrihet, H.G., Díaz Pabón, F.A., & Ahmed, A.M.B. 2025. Africa's leadership in global development debates: Contribution of the Common African position to the post-2015 Development Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable Development, 17 November 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70460

Hartley, F., Merven, B., Hughes, A., Marquard, A., & Ranchhod, V. 2025. Estimating the economy-wide and redistributive impacts of mitigation in South Africa. Climate and Development, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2025.2491539. 

Kinuthia, B.K., & Manda, D.M. 2025. Exports, skills, and wage inequality in Kenya's manufacturing firms. Review of Development Economics, 29(2): 831-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13144
 

Kirigia, J.M., & Mwabu, G. 2025 The monetary value of human life losses associated with COVID-19 in Africa: A human capital approach. Economies, 13(8), 241. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13080241

Lambon-Quayefio, M., Merven, B., Hughes, A., Hartley, F., & Osei, R.D. 2025. Estimating the distributive impacts of climate mitigation policies in the power sector in Ghana. Energy for Sustainable Development, 84, 101589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2024.101589

Masai, T.W., Kuria, M.W., Ayinde, O.O., & Oleche, M.O. 2025. The hidden costs of ‘free’ treatment: A cross-sectional study of patient-incurred costs for daily methadone maintenance treatment in Nairobi, Kenya. PLOS Mental Health, 2(9): e0000383. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000383 

 

Muriithi, M., Oleche, M., Kiarie, F., & Mwangi, T. 2025. Healthcare financing vulnerability and service utilization in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on policies to protect human capital. Economies, 13(8): 242. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13080242
 

Mwabu, G., Ban R., Kiiru, J.M., Mwatha R.G., & Schultz, T.P. 2025. Female wage employment and fertility in Kenya. Economies, 13(10): 298.  https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13100298

Mwabu, G., & Wambugu, A. 2025. Harnessing the direct and indirect effects of agriculture on health and nutrition to accelerate human capital development in Kenya: Evidence from household surveys. Economies, 13(9): 1-17.

Ogwang, T., & Mwabu, G. 2025. A simple measure of catastrophic health expenditures. Health Economics, 34(10), October 2025: 1821-1831. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.70007

Owino-Owiti, A.M., Manda, D.K., & Nyandemo, S. 2025. The impact of government cash transfer on household welfare and its influence on the adverse effects of health shocks: Kenya’s experience. Journal of Economic Policy and Management Issues, 4(1): 1-18.

Shackleton, S., Methner, N., Sibanda, D., Odoom, E., & Mutegi, R. 2025. Coupling human development and adaptation through enhancing adaptive capacity and equity in climate change adaptation projects: Insights from practitioners in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. PLOS Climate, 4(9): e0000697.

Ogwang T., & Mwabu G. 2024. Adaptation of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures for the measurement of catastrophic health expenditures. Health Economics, 33(10), 2419–2436. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4880
 

Kofinti, R.E., Manda, D.K., Oleche, M.O., &  Mwabu, G. 2024. The nexus between consumption inequality and multidimensional poverty in Ghana. Social Indicators Research, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03472-y

Kofinti, R.E., Manda, D.K., Oleche, M.O., &  Mwabu, G. 2024. Consumption inequality and multidimensional child poverty in Ghana: Does access to communal services matter? Child Indicators Research, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-024-10203-9

Andrés Díaz Pabón, F., Shifa, M., Ranchhod, V., & Machemedze, T. 2024. Climate change-related shocks, assets and welfare outcomes in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics, January 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12368

Senou, M.M., & Houensou, D.A. 2024. From expanding financial services to tackling poverty in West African Economic and Monetary Union: The accelerating role of mobile money. Journal of International Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3881

Whitelaw, E., & Branson, N. 2024. What goes up must come down? The effect of ‘2020’on university students' academic performance trajectories. South African Journal of Economics, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12367

Branson, N., & Whitelaw, E. 2023. South African student retention during 2020: Evidence from system-wide higher education institutional data. South African Journal of Economics, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12361

Ichwara, J.M., Kiriti-Ng’ang’a, T.W., & Wambugu, A. 2023. Changes in gender differences in household poverty in Kenya. Cogent Economics & Finance, 11(1), 2191455.

Ouma, S., Vogt-Williams, C., Obeng-Odoom, F., Oduro, A. D., Lewis, T.J., Pheko, L. L., Stevano, S., & Kvangraven, I. 2023. Reconfiguring African Studies, reconfiguring economics: centring intersectionality and social stratification. Critical African Studies, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2023.2226774

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, 26(2): 396-414. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13365

Whitelaw E., Branson N., & Leibbrandt M. (2023). A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: The case of South Africa. Journal of Social Policy, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000636

Adeola, O.O., & Aziakpono, M.J. 2022. Unlocking the relationship between capital flows and economic growth in a small open economy of Kenya: An empirical investigation. Cogent Economics & Finance, 10:1. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2022.2085608

Atta-Ankomah, R. 2022. Welfare effects of financial inclusion services in Ghana: A comparative analysis of mobile money and other financial services. Global Social Welfare, August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-022-00234-x

Atta-Ankomah, R. 2022. Credit for households in Ghana: Has mobile money (momo) improved inclusive access?. Scientific African, 16: e01230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01230.

Banerjee, A., Karlan, D., Osei, R., Trachtman, H., & Udry, C. 2022. Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor. Journal of Development Economics, 155: 102781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102781

Clementi, F., Fabiani, M., Molini, V. & Zizzamia, R. 2022. Are we really painting the devil on the walls? Polarization and its drivers in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past two decades. Journal of African Economies, 31(2), March 2022: 124-146.

Espi-Sanchis, G., Leibbrandt, M., & Ranchhod, V. 2022. Age, employment and labour force participation outcomes in COVID-era South Africa. Development Southern Africa. https://doi.org.1080/0376835X.2022.2051439

Kiplagat, I.J., Mugo, M.G., & Oleche, M.O. 2022. Effect of synergy between provider and consumer quality of healthcare on child health in Kenya. Cogent Economics & Finance, 10(1): 2052401.

Mwabu, G. 2022. Time, health service utilisation and health status in Africa: Evidence from six countries. South African Journal of Economics, 1-13.

Owoo, N.S. 2022. Couple’s decision-making power, women’s labour market outcomes, and asset ownership. Population Research and Policy Review, July 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09732-4

Owoo, N.S., Lambon-Quayefio, M.P., Gyan, S.E., & Oduro, A.D. 2022. Women's earnings and domestic work among couples in Ghana. African Review of Economics and Finance, 14(1), 1 June 2022.

Owoo, N.S., & Osei, R.D. 2022. Exploring the dynamics of inter-household consumption inequality in Ghana. Journal of African Development, 23(1), 87-111. https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrideve.23.1.0087 

Rennkamp, R., Leibbrandt, M., & David, A. 2022. Navigating a Just Transition to net zero emissions. Africa in Fact, 60: 41-43. 

Schotte, S., Zizzamia, R., & Leibbrandt, M. 2022. Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017. South African Journal of Economics, 90( 2), 214-242.
 

Shifa, M. & Leibbrandt, M. 2022. Spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. African Geographical Review. https://doi.org.10.1080/19376812.2022.2099916

Shifa, M., Gordon, D., Leibbrandt, M., & Zhang, M., 2022. Socioeconomic-related inequalities in COVID-19 vulnerability in South Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(17): 10480.

Thornton, A. & Wittenberg, M. 2022. Reweighting the OHS and GHS to improve data quality: Representativeness, household counts, and small households. South African Journal of Economics, 1- 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12319
 

Thornton, A.J., Bhorat, H. Lilenstein, A., Monnakgotla, J., & van der Zee, K. 2022. Crime, income and inequality: non-linearities under extreme inequality in South Africa. Economic Development and Cultural Change, February 2022.

Andrés Diaz Pabón, F., Leibbrandt, M., Ranchhod, V., & Savage, M. 2021. Piketty comes to South Africa. British Journal of Sociology. 2021;72:106-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12808