Dr Elizabeth N. Appiah

Research Fellow

Dr. Elizabeth N. Appiah is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis (CERPA). She is the current Dean of Academics at the Fountainhead Christian University College, Ghana and also serves as a Board Member for the Association for the Advancement of African Women Economists (AAAWE) and represents AAAWE-Ghana.  She has previously served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, USA. Her research is centered on the economic aspects of education, poverty, and how human capital policies influence economic growth in developing countries. She collaborated on creating simulation models and utilized them to explore economic growth, externalities, and non-market returns in several articles featured in esteemed journals. She formulated a statistical strategy to assess the comprehensive return on investment in higher education and employed it to produce a book titled “Earnings by Field: Social and Private Rates of Return to Higher Education with Controls by Race and Gender in the USA. Dr. Appiah holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro and a B.S. in Business Administration from the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.