Research interests: Development Economics (Risk-coping strategies, Microfinance, Education, Migration, Gender), Behavioral Economics, Impact Evaluation.
Peer-reviewed publications and working papers
"Female Entrepreneurship and Gender Norms: Theory and Evidence on Household Investment Choices", with Renaud Bourlès, Sarah Vincent, and Roberta Ziparo, 2024
"Exposure to worrisome topics can increase cognitive performance when incentivized by a performance goal", with Eva Raiber and Daniela Horta Sáenz, Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1204, January 2024
Published paper (open access)
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Media coverage: La Marseillaise, Dialogues économiques
“Coping with shocks: the impact of Self-Help Groups on migration and food security”, World Development, vol. 155, July 2022
Media coverage: Ideas for India (English, Hindi), Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups (older mention here), CNRS Le Journal (in French), Dialogues Economiques
“Child Education and Labour Decisions of Long-Run Microfinance Participants in Rural India” (with Jean-Marie Baland and Rohini Somanathan), Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 69, no.1, October 2020
Media coverage: Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups, CNRS Le Journal (in French), Dialogues Economiques
“Financial Exclusion in Developed Countries: a Field Experiment Among Migrants and Low-income People in Italy” (with Giorgia Barboni and Alessandra Cassar), Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 39-49
“Microfinance Spillovers: a Model of Competition in Informal Credit Markets with an Application to Indian Villages”, European Economic Review, vol. 89, October 2016, pp. 21-41
“Overcoming Constraints to Agricultural Innovation through the Market: Insights from the Peruvian Andes”, CRED working paper 2010/06, 2010
Policy papers
“Marseille: vers une démocratie située”, Civis Open Lab, 2022
“The Demand for Savings, Credit and Insurance in a Simple Dynamic Framework” (with Vianney Dequiedt), FERDI Policy Brief, No. 81, November 2013
“Investing in Boys and Girls: Schooling Decisions and Credit Constraints for Microfinance Participants in India” (with Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan and Michel Tenikue), PRADAN NewsReach, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 16-27, January 2013
“Poverty, Access to Credit and Absorption of Income Shocks: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in India”, PRADAN NewsReach, Vol.12, No. 10, pp. 38-48, September 2012
“Lucha contra las restricciones a la innovación agrícola: un enfoque de mercado”, in: de la Torre, C., Kamayoq: promotores campesinos de innovaciones tecnológicas, Vol. 2, Lima: ITDG, 2008
Work in progress
"The Impact of Matrimonial Regime on Female Education and Labor Supply", with Roberta Ziparo
"Migrant integration through hard- and soft-skills training", with Roberta Ziparo
"Living in a hazardous world", with Marius Berger