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Isaac Addai
Department of MathematicsHealth SciencesSocial SciencesLife SciencesPhysical Sciences

Isaac Addai

58 Publications31 Research Themes29 Open Access
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Research Overview & Focus

The researcher's work integrates a comprehensive approach across multiple disciplines, integrating themes from global maternal and child health, psychological well-being, religious beliefs, socio-economic factors, gender dynamics, labor practices, public policy reforms, international aid, educational systems, agricultural resilience, economic growth, health disparities, social influences, demography, education systems, migration, taxation compliance, fiscal policies, and urban development. The research employs methodologies spanning statistical analysis, micro-level studies, and macro-integration of different domains to develop a holistic understanding of global challenges and opportunities in health, education, gender equity, and policy-making.

Key Research Themes (31)
Health Sciences

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Social Sciences

African Education and Politics

Social Sciences

African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues

Life Sciences

Agricultural risk and resilience

Health Sciences

Child Nutrition and Water Access

Social Sciences

Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Social Sciences

Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Physical Sciences

Economic Growth and Development

Social Sciences

Education and Critical Thinking Development

Social Sciences

Education Systems and Policy

Social Sciences

Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Social Sciences

Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Health Sciences

Global Health Care Issues

Health Sciences

Global Maternal and Child Health

Social Sciences

Health disparities and outcomes

Social Sciences

Higher Education Governance and Development

Social Sciences

Housing Market and Economics

Social Sciences

International Development and Aid

Social Sciences

Islamic Finance and Banking Studies

Health Sciences

Malaria Research and Control

Social Sciences

Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

Social Sciences

Migration and Labor Dynamics

Physical Sciences

Numerical methods in inverse problems

Social Sciences

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Social Sciences

Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Social Sciences

Psychology of Social Influence

Social Sciences

Religion, Society, and Development

Social Sciences

Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Physical Sciences

Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Social Sciences

Taxation and Compliance Studies

Social Sciences

Working Capital and Financial Performance

Publications (58)

Investigating Annual Household Food Budget Shares in Ghana: A Micro-Level Empirical Update

Open Access
2025DOI: 10.11648/j.eco.20251404.13

Accounting for Household Formal Education Budget Shares in the Ashanti Region of Ghana: The Statistical Evidence

Open Access
2025DOI: 10.11648/j.ijecs.20251006.13

Investigating the Impact of Household Expenditure on Formal Education in Ghana: An Empirical Study

Open Access
2025DOI: 10.9734/ajess/2025/v51i122687

Determinants of Household Non-Enrollment into Formal Basic Schooling: A Statistical Evidence from Ghana’s Annual Household Income and Expenditure Survey

Open Access
2025DOI: 10.9734/arjass/2025/v23i11839

Annual Spending on Formal Education Among Households in the Ashanti Region of Ghana: A Ghana Living Standards Survey Seven Investigation

Open Access
2024Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4690671

Annual Household Budget Share in Formal Education Expenditure Using the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round Six Data: A Micro-Level Statistical Investigation

Open Access
2024Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4692373

An Empirical Analysis of Ashanti Region Annual Household Education Expenditure Using the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round Six Data

Open Access
2024Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4690623

Performance and Efficiency Analysis of Public Polytechnic Institutions in the Academic Year of Transition to Technical Universities in Ghana

Open Access
2024African Education and PoliticsDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4690680

A Micro-Level Empirical Analysis of Annual Household Food Budget Shares in Ghana

Open Access
2024Agricultural risk and resilienceDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4717448

An empirical analysis of household formal education expenditure in Ghana

Open Access
2023Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.1080/2331186x.2023.2292863

Effective Disciplinary Strategies to Combating Indiscipline in Public Senior High Schools in Kumasi, Ghana

Open Access
2023Education and Critical Thinking DevelopmentDOI: 10.47941/jep.1541

Confirmed Malaria Cases in Children under Five Years: The Influence of Suspected Cases, Tested Cases, and Climatic Conditions

Open Access
2023Malaria Research and ControlDOI: 10.1155/2023/8469372

Estimating household food budget shares and Engel’s food coefficient in a lean food supply month in Ghana: a micro data analysis

Open Access
2023Child Nutrition and Water AccessDOI: 10.4314/ajosi.v5i1.2

Analysing Household Expenditure on Education in Ghana: An Update

Open Access
2023Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4339145

Religion and Subjective Well-Being in Ghana

2023Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologyDOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_3968

Analysing Household Expenditure on Education in Ghana: An Update

Open Access
2023Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4340030

Investigating Household Food Expenditures and the Engel’s curve in Ghana: The Empirics

Open Access
2022Gender, Labor, and Family DynamicsDOI: 10.26803/myres.2022.07

Solving the Helmholtz Equation Together with the Cauchy Boundary Conditions by a Modified Quasi‐Reversibility Regularization Method

Open Access
2022Numerical methods in inverse problemsDOI: 10.1155/2022/5336305

A contribution to the determinants of annual household education expenditure in Ghana

Open Access
2022Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100349

The Comma Conundrum among Higher Education Administrative Staff: A Case Study of Kumasi Technical University, Ghana

Open Access
2021Higher Education Governance and DevelopmentDOI: 10.21275/sr21127223830

The Sustainable Development Goals and Ghana Development Nexus: An Empirical Assessment

Open Access
2020Sustainable Development and Environmental PolicyDOI: 10.24940/ijird/2020/v9/i7/jul20009

Watching the watchman from Ghana: The case of agenda 2063

Open Access
2020International Development and AidDOI: 10.24297/jssr.v16i.8762

Overeducation: A Growing Phenomenon Among Ghanaian Teachers at the Pre-Tertiary Level? The Empirical Evidence

Open Access
2020Education Systems and PolicyDOI: 10.33094/7.2017.2020.72.53.57

University of Education, Winneba Productivity and Efficiency: A Data Envelopment Analysis Exploration, Ghana

Open Access
2019Economic Growth and DevelopmentDOI: 10.24940/theijhss/2019/v7/i11/hs1911-030

Are the Customers Comfortable with Seats in the Classroom or Is the Customer wrong This Time? An Empirical Analysis of the Customers Satisfaction from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

Open Access
2019Psychology of Social InfluenceDOI: 10.24940/theijhss/2019/v7/i11/hs1911-029

Determinants of All-Cause Maternal Mortality in Ghana: A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis of 2007 and 2017 Ghana Maternal Health Surveys

2019Global Maternal and Child Health

SHORT REPORT: Demographic and Sociocultural Factors Influencing Use of Maternal Health Services in Ghana

Open Access
2017Global Maternal and Child Health

The Long and Short Run Determinants of Private Sector Investment in Ghana, 1970-2011

2016Fiscal Policy and Economic GrowthDOI: 10.9734/bjemt/2016/21773

Marriage and subjective wellbeing in Ghana

2015Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Financial Ratios (Accounting Ratios) and Survival of Microfinance Institutions in Ghana

2015Working Capital and Financial PerformanceDOI: 10.4172/2167-0234.1000151

Determinants of mutual fund investment decision by second cycle teachers in Kumasi metropolis, Ghana

2015Microfinance and Financial InclusionDOI: 10.1504/ajaaf.2015.075124

The Predicaments of Non-Residential Students in Ghanaian Institutions of Higher Education: A Micro-Level Empirical Evidence

2015Housing Market and Economics

Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana by 2015: Myth or Reality? A Statistical Evidence from Kumasi

2015Migration and Labor Dynamics

Religion and Subjective Well-being in Ghana

2014Religion, Society, and DevelopmentDOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3968

Problems of non-residential students in tertiary educational institutions in Ghana : a micro-level statistical evidence

2013Housing Market and Economics

Exploring Predictors of Subjective Well-Being in Ghana: A Micro-Level Study

2013Psychological Well-being and Life SatisfactionDOI: 10.1007/s10902-013-9454-7

Predictors of Self-Appraised Health Status in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana

2013Health disparities and outcomesDOI: 10.1007/s11482-013-9220-3

Estimating Gender Earnings Gap in the Informal Sector Kayayei Labour Market: Micro-Level Empirical Evidence from Kumasi, Ghana

2013Taxation and Compliance Studies

An Exploratory Study of Religion and Trust in Ghana

2011Islamic Finance and Banking StudiesDOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9969-4

An Exploratory Study of Trust and Material Hardship in Ghana

2011Islamic Finance and Banking StudiesDOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9909-3

Estimating Remittances in the Informal Sector Labour Market in a Developing Economy: A Micro-Level Evidence on Kayayoo Migrants in Kumasi, Ghana

Open Access
2011Migration and Labor DynamicsDOI: 10.3923/sscience.2011.313.317

An Empirical Analysis of Gender Earnings Gap in the Ghanaian Informal Sector Using the 1998/1999 Ghana Living Standards Survey

Open Access
2011Taxation and Compliance StudiesDOI: 10.3923/pjssci.2011.152.158

Religion and Subjective Well-Being in Ghana

2011Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologyDOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9793-x

Ethnicity and Economic Well-Being: The Case of Ghana

2010Culture, Economy, and Development StudiesDOI: 10.1007/s11205-010-9595-6

Economic Well-Being Index

2010Global Health Care IssuesDOI: 10.1037/t32564-000

Challenges to the reproductive-health needs of African women: On religion and maternal health utilization in Ghana

2006Global Maternal and Child HealthDOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.034

Challenges to the reproductive health needs of African women: On religion and maternal health in Ghana

2006Global Maternal and Child Health

Demographic Processes, Economic Growth and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana, 1960–2000

2003Poverty, Education, and Child WelfareDOI: 10.1163/9789047402169_015

Effects of Ethnicity on the Onset of Parenthood in a Developing Country: Some Evidence from the Early 1990s

2002Global Maternal and Child HealthDOI: 10.3138/jcfs.33.1.57

Religious Affiliation, Marital Processes and Women's Educational Attainment in a Developing Society

2002Gender, Labor, and Family DynamicsDOI: 10.2307/3712564

Religious Affiliation and Sexual Initiation among Ghanaian Women

2000African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ IssuesDOI: 10.2307/3512033

DETERMINANTS OF USE OF MATERNAL–CHILD HEALTH SERVICES IN RURAL GHANA

Open Access
2000Global Maternal and Child HealthDOI: 10.1017/s0021932000000018

Structural Assimilation and Ethnic Fertility in Ghana

1999Demographic Trends and Gender PreferencesDOI: 10.3138/jcfs.30.3.409

Ethnicity and sexual behavior in Ghana

1999Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthDOI: 10.1080/19485565.1999.9988985

Does Religion Matter in Contraceptive Use among Ghanaian Women?

1999Global Maternal and Child HealthDOI: 10.2307/3512371

ETHNICITY AND CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE CASE OF GHANA

1999Global Maternal and Child HealthDOI: 10.1017/s0021932099001054

Demographic and sociocultural factors influencing use of maternal health services in Ghana.

1998Global Maternal and Child Health

Ethnic fertility differentials in Ghana and their consequences

Open Access
1996Global Maternal and Child HealthDOI: 10.7939/r3q52fn2q
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DepartmentDepartment of Mathematics
Total Publications58
Research Themes31
Open Access Papers29

Department of Mathematics

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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