Team > Dr. Raymond Frempong

Chair of Development Economics

Dr. Raymond Boadi Frempong

Postdoctoral Researcher

Consultation Hour

Upon appointment (to arrange, please contact at raymond.frempong@uni.-bayreuth.de).

Short CV

Employment

• Since 2019     Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Development Economics, University                         of Bayreuth
• 2011               Teacher, Ghana Christian International Higher School, Dodowa, Ghana
• 2008 - 2009    Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Cape                                  Coast

Education

• 2014 - 2018    PhD (Economics), University of Bayreuth
• 2011 - 2013    Mphil (Economics), University of Cape Coast
• 2004 - 2008    Bachelor of Social Science, University of Cape Coast

Full CV

• Full Curriculum Vitae

Chair of Development Economics

Teaching

Past and present teaching priorities

• Seminar “Economics of Child Labour”
• Seminar “Food and Nutrition Security in Sub-Sahara Africa”

Research

Main areas of research

• Economics of child labour and human capital development
• Food and nutrition security
• Regional integration in Africa

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Frempong, R.B., Stadelmann, D. (2021). Risk preference and child labor: Econometric evidence. Review of Development Economics, 1–17. doi:10.1111/rode.12746
• Frempong, R. & Stadelmann, D., & Wild F. (2020). CoronavirusLockdowns, Secondary Effects and Sustainable ExitStrategies for SubSaharan Africa. Economics Bulletin, 40(3), 2586-2593
• Stadelmann, D., & Frempong, R. B. (2018). Did the Customs Union of the East African Community Increase Overall Trade of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda?. The African Review, 45(2) 348361
• Annim, S. K., & Frempong, R. B. (2018). Effects of access to credit and income on dietary diversity in Ghana. Food Security, 115. doi:10.1007/s1257101808628
• Frempong, R. B., & Stadelmann, D. (2018). The Effect of food prices on child labour among farm households: Evidence from Uganda. Journal of Development Studies. doi:10.1080/00220388.2018.1448066
• Frempong, R. B., & Annim, S. K. (2017). Dietary diversity and child malnutrition in Ghana. Heliyon, 3(5), e00298 doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00298

Working papers and conference proceedings

• Frempong, R.B., & Kitzmüller, L. & Stadelman, D, (2019). A microbased Approach to evaluate the effect of water supply on health in Uganda. CREMA Working Paper Series 201907, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
• Frempong, R. B. (2018). Agricultural Subsidies and Child Labour: Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme
• Frempong, R. B., and Gross, E. (2018). Food Security and Crop Diversity among Subsistence Farmers. Working paper
• Frempong, R. B., & Stadelmann, D. (2017). Does Female Education have a Bargaining Effect on Household Welfare? Evidence from Ghana and Uganda. CREMA Working Paper Series 201708, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
• Frempong, R.B., Novignon, J., Stadelmann, D. (2021) Inequalities, Exclusion and COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, CREMA Working Paper No. 2021-05
• Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Alfano, M., … Palomäki, J.(2020, September 2). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ydt95

Conferences and workshops

• May 27th - June 2nd, 2019. African Economic Research Consortium’s December Biannual Research Workshop in Cape Town, South Africa
• December 3rd - 7th, 2017. African Economic Research Consortium’s December Biannual Research Workshop in Arusha, Tanzania
• August 22nd - 26th, 2017. 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences at Lindau, Germany
• June 26th - 30th, 2017. Experimental Economics Summer Program at Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
• August 16th - 21st, 2015. Bavaria Graduate Program in Economics course Empirical Evaluation Methods at Muggendorf, Germany
• July 19th - 24th, 2015. Bavaria Graduate Program in Economics course Advanced Econometrics (Panel Data) at Muggendorf, Germany
• August 4th - 8th, 2014. Participated in ICPSR Summer Programme workshop on Providing Social Science Services: Strategies for Design in the University of Michigan, USA
• July 28th - August 1st, 2014. Participant at ICPSR Summer Programme workshop on Curating and Managing Research Data for ReUse in the University of Michigan, USA
• June 6th - 7th, 2014. Participant in a Round Table Discussion organized by Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast on Food security in Cape Coast, Ghana
• May 7th, 2014. Participated in a conference organized by Directorate of Research, Innovations and Consultancy (DRIC) on Ethical Review in Cape Coast, Ghana

Non-refereed publications, articles and blogs

• ‘Every (immune) person counts, especially in developing countries’ (with Raymond B. Frempong and David Stadelmann), in: 2021: The Year of Vaccines, ed. Shoba Suri, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), 2021. Link
• ‘A perspective on secondary effects of the spread of COVID19 in emerging economies’ (with Raymond B. Frempong and David Stadelmann), in Observer Research Foundation (ORF) Expert Speak, 2020. Link

Chair of Development Economics

Dr. Raymond Frempong
Postdoctoral Researcher