Monica Lambon-Quayefio is an applied microeconomist whose broad research focuses on gender and labour markets, social protection, education, and digital innovations in agriculture. Her most recent work is focused on collaboration and networking among female entrepreneurs, online matching platforms and labour markets, education policies and household behaviour, gender and social protection, and digitized credit and bundled services for small holder farmers.

Her research uses a mix of experimental approaches and other quantitative methods to explore the impact of interventions and policies.

She is currently a visiting fellow at the Oxford Martin on the Future of Development and at the Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana. She holds a PhD in Economics from Clark University in Massachusetts (USA) where she also obtained her master’s degree Economics. Her Bachelor of Arts degree was obtained in Economics with Mathematics from the University of Ghana.