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 Lasso for  Models with Spatially Correlated data (with Sylvain Barde and Rowan Cherodian) Revision Requested at Econometrics Journal

• Religious Competition, Culture, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Colombia (with Hector Galindo-Silva) Revision Requested at the Journal of Population Economics

• 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 2-Stage Lasso: for Models with Spatial Correlation and Endogenous Variables (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).