Welcome!

I am an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) at Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University.

I do applied microeconomic and empirical research that aims at understanding important development challenges and inform policymaking. I study particularly decision-making and risk-coping behaviors in poor and vulnerable environments. My research interests include microfinance, education, migration, and gender issues.

I am in charge of the AMSE Development and Political Economy seminar and the current PhD Placement Officer ( > see the current job market candidates and the placement of former students).

Dear visitor, please have some food for thought (I particularly like):

"To every complex problem, there exists a simple answer, but it is wrong." (Umberto Eco)

"What we as economists have learned best to do, is to be hard headed about the facts, skeptical of slick answers and magic bullets, modest and honest about what we know and understand, and perhaps most importantly, willing to try ideas and solutions and be wrong, as long as it takes us toward the ultimate goal of building a more humane world." (Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, 2019)

"If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcomes today." (Atkinson)