Research
Published and accepted papers
"Learning the Right Skill: Vocational Curricula and Returns to Skills"(with Femke Connsen and Matloob Piracha), forthcoming at the Journal of Labor Economics
"Spatial Differencing for Sample Selection Models with Site-Specific Unobserved Heterogeneity"(with Alexander Klein), forthcoming at the Econometrics Journal.
"Laissez-faire, Social Networks, and Race during a Pandemic",(with Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji) AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112: 325-29.
"Optimal Interventions in Networks during a Pandemic" (with Roland Pongou and Jean-Baptiste Tondji), The Journal of Population Economics 36(2), 847-883.
"The Forest Behind the Tree: Heterogeneity in How US Governor's Party Affects Black Workers",(with Justin Kakeu and John N. Francois), The Review of Black Political Economy 51 (1), 121-147. Code and Data
"Early Human Capital Accumulation and Decentralization", Célestin Monga (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon, Oxford University Press Ch 19, 371–384.
"Fighting for Not-So-Religious Souls: The Role of Religious Competition in Non-Religious Conflicts", (with Hector Galindo-Silva), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 191, 127-152.
‘‘High school human capital portfolio and college outcomes’’ Journal of Human Capital, 10, 3: 267-302.
“ Efficient estimation with many weak instruments using regularization techniques”, (with Marine Carrasco), Econometric Reviews, 35, 1609-1637.
‘‘Regularized LIML for many instruments’’ (with Marine Carrasco), Journal of Econometrics, 186, 427-442.
Working papers
Moran’s I 2-Stage Lasso: for Models with Spatial Correlation and Endogenous Variables (with Sylvain Barde and Rowan Cherodian)
Religious Competition, Culture, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Colombia (with Hector Galindo-Silva)
Vaccine, Profit, and Race in a Health Crisis: Evidence from U.S. Nursing Homes (with Roland Pongou, Ghislain Junior Sidie, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji)
Moran’s I Lasso for Models with Spatially Correlated data (with Sylvain Barde and Rowan Cherodian)
Armed Conflict and Early Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Cameroon's Anglophone Conflict (with Hector Galindo-Silva)
"Profits, Pandemics, and Lockdown Effectiveness: Theory and Evidence from Nursing Home Networks" (with Roland Pongou, Ghislain Junior Sidie, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji) Under submission
"A Note on the Topology of the First Stage of 2SLS with Many Instruments", Under submission at JBES.
"Weak Identification and Estimation of Social Interaction Models", Under submission.
"Does Obamacare Care? A Fuzzy Difference-in-discontinuities Approach", (with Hector Galindo-Silva and Habib Some). Under review.
''Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour" (with M. Piracha and M. Tani), Under review.
“Regularization Based Anderson Rubin Tests for Many Instruments” (with Marine Carrasco).