Raymond Elikplim Kofinti

• Lecturer at University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

This paper examines the association between consumption inequality and multidimensional child poverty using the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, augmented with administrative data sourced at the district level. Consumption inequality is measured using the Gini coefficient based on per capita household consumption expenditure at t...

This study documents changes in consumption inequality in Ghana from 2005 to 2017. The focus is on the causal link from consumption inequality to household multidimensional poverty. We use three rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey, augmented with district level administrative data. Consumption inequality is measured using the Gini coefficie...

Despite global efforts to propel clean fuels, rural households in most developing countries rely heavily on traditional solid fuels, perpetuating energy poverty and hindering sustainable rural development. Using two waves of longitudinal data from the Tanzania National Panel Survey spanning between 2014 and 2022, we examine the effects of financial...

Background Researchers over the years have underscored the role of birth spacing on maternal health, however, inadequate maternal repletion due to shorter birth intervals could also affect the health of the child. Even so, limited studies exist on the linkage between birth spacing and child nutrition. This study examines the association between bir...

Workers and food systems are integral to economic progress in Africa, where food insecurity is rising alongside exacerbating levels of precarious employment conditions. However, empirical literature remains scant on this relationship. This study examines the link between precarious employment and food insecurity in Ghana using the country’s first A...

Despite the devastating effects of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures on households’ financial outlays, which potentially stifle household resources needed for food consumption, the health financing program-food insecurity nexus is yet to receive much needed attention in the literature. This study makes a significant contribution by investigatin...

Human capital investment is noted to increase labour market success and future welfare security. But empirical studies have established that investment in human capital formation is a risky venture. Consequently, the risk preference of funders is pivotal in influencing the optimal allocation of household’s scarce resources in educational investment...

In recent years, gender diversity has gained considerable attention at both the global and national levels and is aimed at multiple perspectives including governance and operations. However, the available evidence on the outcomes of gender diversity have been largely demonstrated for the developed world. The evidence for developing countries is rar...

With increasing scholarly attention on child deprivation to understand its drivers and potential policies needed for its alleviation, the discouraged borrower syndrome has received little attention despite its potential role in stifling household resources needed to cater for the needs of children. Using the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standa...

This study examines the effect of the National Health Insurance Scheme on household poverty and basic asset accumulation using the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. We corrected the endogeneity and sample selection bias associated with subscription to the scheme. The estimates show that health insurance subscription reduces household poverty and...

This paper examines the effect of digital investment on firm performance amid the COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana. Applying a difference‐in‐difference estimator to a panel of 7548 firm‐year observations from 2019 to 2020, we find a positive relationship between digital investment and firm performance. While these findings are robust to different estimat...

Despite the concerted efforts being made at the global, regional, and national levels to reduce child poverty, children in resource-poor countries continue to experience deprivations in multidimensional forms. This study examines the link between parental financial inclusion and multidimensional child poverty using a nationally representative livin...

Despite the concerted efforts being made at the global, regional, and national levels to reduce child poverty, children in resource-poor countries continue to experience deprivations in multidimensional forms. This study examines the link between parental financial inclusion and multidimensional child poverty using a nationally representative livin...

This paper investigates the effect of poor households’ subscription to National Health Insurance Scheme on their children’s school performance. Resource-poor households are often vulnerable to low investment in education. This is particularly the case where expenditure on health can trade of educational spending and compromise children’s academic p...

Despite the potential role of a mother's health insurance coverage in enhancing her children's health and well-being, research examining its impact on children's nutritional outcomes remains sparse. We examine the link between mothers' health insurance subscription and child malnutrition using data extracted from the Demographic and Health Surveys...

Background Despite the focus of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to bridge healthcare utilisation gap among women in Ghana, recent evidence indicates that most maternal deaths still occur from rural Ghana. The objective of this study was to examine the rural-urban differences in the effects of NHIS enrolment on delivery care utilisation...

Background: While Rwanda's progress towards achieving the maternal health care targets of the Sustainable Development Goals is impressive, evidence of women's limited utilization of antenatal care (ANC) services in the context of an improved health care system provides an opportunity for exploring other essential but less highlighted factors that...

Children in Sub-Saharan Africa spend a non-trivial amount of their time cooking and collecting fuel for domestic use. This is particularly the case in rural areas where access to efficient energy is low, and children's academic performance is poor. This paper argues that households' use of cooking gas could reduce the time spent doing domestic chor...

The prevalence of condoning attitudes toward spousal violence (SV) is high in Ghana, yet much is not known about how the development of children is compromised in households where attitudes toward SV are tolerated. This study is premised on two objectives: (a) examination of the effect of parents condoning attitudes toward SV on early childhood dev...

IntroductionThis study is against the backdrop that despite the forty-nine percent decline in Maternal Mortality Rate in Ghana, the situation still remains high averaging 319 per 100,000 live births between 2011 and 2015. Objective To examine the relationship between National Health Insurance and maternal healthcare utilisation across three main we...

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income povert...