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Author: Akude, Philip J

  • Essays in Development Economics: The Health and Economic Impact of the Farm-gate Cocoa Price Boom in Ghana

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    Spring 2020

    Akude, Philip J

    This thesis explores the impact of Ghana’s farm-gate cocoa price shocks on welfare. It comprises of two essays. The first essay examines the impact of a farm-gate cocoa price boom on child health, where the price boom directly affects household incomes and indirectly affect the investments in child

    production. I identify the effects of the cocoa price boom by comparing child health outcomes in cocoa, producing districts to other non-cocoa producing districts during pre and post price boom periods. The evidence suggests that the cocoa price boom led to a differential increase in the probability of

    stunting and underweight in children living in cocoa districts relative to those in non-cocoa districts. Next, I explore the mechanisms through which a cocoa price increase affects child health and find that there is a differential increase in the probability of stunting and underweight for children in

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