Monica Lambon-Quayefio is an applied economist whose research focuses on labour market issues in developing country contexts, demographic economic issues with a focus on, women and children’s welfare and digital innovations in agriculture. Her recent work has focused on unpaid care work, inequality of opportunity, digital finance in agriculture, informal pensions and labour market inefficiencies. She is a research fellow of the Transfer and of the Africa Centre of Excellence in Poverty and Inequality Research (ACEIR). She is also a non-resident fellow at the Centre for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and a JPAL invited researcher. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana. She holds a doctorate degree in Economics from Clark University, Massachusetts in  the USA where she received her master’s degree in economics. Her Bachelor of Arts degree was obtained in Economics with Mathematics from the University.