PUBLICATIONS
Tabe-Ojong Jr, M. P., Kakpo, A. T., & Lokossou, J. C. (2026). Turning up the heat: Extreme heat and labor implications in West Africa. Journal of Development Economics, 179(C).
Mensah, E. R., Shinde, N., Kakpo, A. T., & Djenontin, I. N. (2024). The human well-being outcomes of tree plantations in sub-Saharan Africa: A reassessment of evidence using longitudinal subnational-year data. Forest Policy and Economics, 160, 103141.
Agossou, A. C. O., N’Danikou, S., Fassinou Hotègni, V. N., Kakpo, T. A., Coulibaly, M., Oselebe, H. O., & Achigan-Dako, E. G. (2023). Determinants of farmers’ willingness to pay for improved cultivars of Macrotyloma geocarpum (harms) Maréchal and Baudet in Benin and Togo. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1180961.
Kakpo A, Mills B and Brunelin S. (2022). Weather Shocks and Food Price Seasonality in Sub Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger. Food Policy, 112, 102347.
Neill C, Kakpo A, and Mack R. (2021). The Role of Experience, Specialty Certification, and Ownership on the Gender Wage Gap for Veterinarians. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. March 2021.
WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
Extreme Heat, Induced Innovation and Cropland Expansion (With Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong) (Revise & Resubmit, World Bank Economic Review).
Not enough of a buffer? Droughts and Livestock Sales (With Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong) (Revise & Resubmit, Economic Development and Cultural Change)
Predicting Food Crises Using Price Signals: A Machine Learning Application in the Sahel Region of West Africa (With Sayouti, N. S., Mensah, E., and Dey Amin, M.) (Submitted)
Temperature Shocks, ITNs, and Malaria Burden: Panel Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (In Progress)
Weather shocks and smallholder market participation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from millet farmers in Niger (with Brad Mills and Stéphanie Brunelin) (In Progress).
Young Adult Field Access and Yields in the Senegal Groundnut Basin (With Bradford Mills)
Household Water Insecurity, Trust and Participation in Water-Related Collective Action: Evidence from Malawi’s Urban Informal Settlements (With Ellis Adams and Godfred Boateng) (In Progress)
Extreme Heat and Poverty Traps: Evidence from South Africa (In Progress)
PRESENTATIONS
2024 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Conference, Paper Presentation July 28-30th, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
2024 Western Economic Association International Conference, Paper Presentation, June 29-July 3, Seattle, Washington
2024 Northwest Development Workshop (Paper Presentation), Department of Economics, University of Washington, May 2024.
2023 Pacific Conference for Development Economics (Poster Presentation), University of Washington, March 2023.
2021 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Meetings, Austin, TX, August 2021.
Applied Economics Policy Seminar, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, May 2021.
2021 Conference of the Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, March 2021.
2020 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Meetings, Kansas City, MO., August 2020;
6th Canadian Ph.D. and Early Career Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, York University, July 2020;
Graduate Student Seminar Series, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, November 2019.
Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, Fall 2015.