i Email: info.interias@gmail.com Website: www.interias.org.gh Tel/Fax: +233 303 9799 29 GrOW Project “Growth in West Africa: impacts of extractive industry on women’s economic empowerment in Cote d’Ivoire & Ghana” “Gender Differences in the extractives sector: Evidence from Ghana” William Baah-Boateng 1 , Pricilla Twumasi Baffour 2 and Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3 Working Paper No. 1 Acknowledgement and Appreciation: “This work was carried out at part of the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) program with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the International Development Research Centre, Canada.” 1 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ghana and Senior Fellow, International Institute for the Advanced Studies (IIAS), wbboateng@ug.edu.gh or wbaahboat@post.harvard.edu 2 Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Ghana and Fellow, International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS); **@ug.edu.gh 3 Senior Fellow and Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) and Professor of History & Director of Center for African Studies, Harvard University, USA; akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu or akyeamp@gmail.com