Research

Publications

Intra-household bargaining in poor countries  with Jean-Marie Baland, In: Anderson, S., Beaman, L. & Platteau, J.-P. (Eds.). Towards Gender Equity in Development. Oxford University Press. (2018)

Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia. with Nava Ashraf, Erica Field, Giudy Rusconi and Alessandra Voena, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 107(5), (2017).

The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families with Jean-Marie Baland, Isabelle Bonjean and Catherine Guirkinger, Journal of Development Economics, vol.123, pp.38-56, (2017).

Working Papers

Sweet child of mine: parental income, child health and inequality  NEW:  last version (January 2024) with Nicolas Berman and Lorenzo Rotunno. R&R at Economic Journal. 

Gender, Information and the Efficiency of Households' Productive Decisions: an Experiment in Rural Togo NEW: last version (April2024)  with Marie-Christine Apedo-Amah and Habiba Djebbari. R&R at Economic Development and Cultural Change . 

Investment Decisions with Endogenous Budget Share Allocations Inside the Household    NEW: last version (April  2024)  with Nina Buchmann and Pascaline Dupas. R&R at American Economic Review. 

Gendered Spheres of Learning and Household Decision Making over Fertility  last version (April  2023)  with Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Alessandra Voena. R&R at Review of Economic Studies. 

Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Indonesia last version (May 2022)  with Olivier Bargain and Jordan Loper. 

Women’s Empowerment and Husband’s Migration: Evidence from Indonesia   NEW:  last version (January 2024) with Olivier Bargain and Jordan Loper

Why do spouses communicate? Love or interest? A model and some evidence from Cameroon last version (February 2023)

The Impact of the Matrimonial Regime on Female Education and Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in France with Timothée Demont

Work in Progress

Forbidden Love: The impact of Banning Inter-racial Marriages  with Björn Brey and Jade Ponsard

Delegation in the Household: Theory and Experimental Evidence, with Jean-Marie Baland, Marie Boltz,  Anna Jolivet and Catherine Guirkinger

Entrepreneurship within the Household, with Renaud Bourlés, Timothée Demont and Sarah Vincent

Missing Women in Research, with Aliénor Bisantis and Yann Bramoullé