Garth Frazer’s Research Page

 

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto

 

(on leave until June 30, 2010)

 

 

C.V.

 

Papers

 

  • Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (joint with Johannes Van Biesebroeck)  -- forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics  (download)

 

  • “Used-Clothing Donations and Apparel Production in Africa,” Economic Journal, 118(532), October 2008, pp. 1764-1784.  (download)

 

  • “Learning the Master’s Trade:  Apprenticeship and Human Capital in Ghana,” Journal of Development Economics, 81(2), December 2006, p. 259-298. (lead article) (download)

 

  • “Inequality and Development Across and Within Countries,” World Development, 34(9), September 2006, p. 1459-1481. (lead article) (download)

 

  • “Which Firms Die? A Look at Exit from Manufacturing in Ghana,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(3), April 2005, p. 585-617. (download)

 

Working Papers

  • Structural Identification of Production Functions (joint with Dan Ackerberg and Kevin Caves) (download) – revise and resubmit, Econometrica

 

  • Firm Productivity, Worker Ability and Returns to Education in Ghana – contact me for the latest version

 

  • The Firm and the Family Network:  Measuring the Relative Productivity of Relatives

 

  • Unions, Productivity, and Profitability in Ghanaian Manufacturing

 

  • Structural Change and Economic Development

 

Book Chapters and Book Reviews

  • “Industrial Relations in Ghana,” in Geoffrey Wood and Chris Brewster, eds., Industrial Relations in Africa.  New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2007.

 

  • Book Review of: Marcel Fafchamps, Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa—Theory and Evidence (MIT Press, 2004).  In Journal of African Economies 14(2), 2005, pp. 321-325.

 

 

 
Garth Frazer
gfrazer@chass.utoronto.ca

Ph: +1 416 978 5692

Fax: +1 416 978 5696