Contact
E-mail:
georgette.owusuamankwah@hamptonu.edu
Location:
Science and Technology Building 314D
Phone:
757-637-2279
Georgette Owusuamankwah
- Position: Visiting Assistant Professor
- Educational background:
B.A in Economics and Statistics, University of Ghana, Legon
M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky
Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University in New York.
- Research interests: Dr. Owusu-Amankwah’s research interests reflect her commitment to addressing global challenges through rigorous statistical methodologies and interdisciplinary quantitative approaches. Her interests span mathematical and statistical modeling, mathematical finance, game theory with artificial intelligence, community and economic development, climate change and clean energy, behavioral and health economics, nutrition and food security, environmental health, technology adoption, and local food systems.
- Selected publications
- Daouda, M., Seyram, K., Amankwah, G. O., Seidu, I., Kar, A., Abubakari, S., … & Asante, K. P. (2024). Beyond air pollution: a national assessment of cooking-related burns in Ghana. Injury prevention.
- Kar, A., Tawiah, T., Graham, L., Owusu-Amankwah, G., Daouda, M., Malagutti, F., … & Asante, K. P. (2024). Factors associated with the use of lique ed petroleum gas in Ghana vary at di erent stages of transition. Nature Energy, 1-12.
- Owusu-Amankwah, G., Abubakari, S. W., Apraku, E. A., Iddrisu, S., Kar, A., Malagutti, F., … & Jack, D. (2023). Socioeconomic determinants of household stove use and stove stacking patterns in Ghana. Energy for Sustainable Development, 76, 101256.
- Owusu-Amankwah G. et al. (2018). Willingness of Rural and Peri-urban Women Smallholder Farmers to Participate in Home-grown School Feeding Farming Contracts. Journal of Business Diversity, 18(2), 15-32.
- Owusu-Amankwah, G., Swanson, J. R., Allen IV, J. E., Han, J., & Davis, A. (2016). Restaurant tax feasibility: determinants of restaurant threshold price. International Journal of Hospitality and Event Management, 1(4), 333-354
