Published Papers
25. Moustapha M. and Kouandou, A. (2026). Does Clean Cooking Technology Adoption Enhance Women's Emporwerment in Benin? Evidence From the Demographic and Health Survey. Accepted for publication, Oxford Development Studies.
24. Kouandou, A. (2026). Assessing the impact of crime on agricultural development in rural Ghana. Accepted for publication, Oxford Development Studies.
23. Kouandou, A., & Mounmemi, M. (2026). Clean Cooking Energy Adoption and Household Food Security in West Africa: Panel Data Evidence. Sustainable Development e71644. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.71644.
22. Kouandou, A., & Mounmemi, M. (2026). Escaping Energy Poverty in Urban Africa: Does Housing Tenure Security Play a Role?. Energy Studies Review, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.15173/esr.v28i2.6098
21. Kabré, A. B., & Kouandou, A. (2026). Assessing the impact of agricultural market participation on banking access and savings: evidence from Ghana. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-026-00265-4
20. Kouandou, A., & Ekani Bidzanga, E. A. (2026). Beyond Crops: Gendered Dimensions of Livestock Farming in West Africa.Oxford Development Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2026.2683337
19. Mounmemi, M., A.Kouandou, B. N.Mbeyap, and I. P. A.Mounpou. (2026). “Urban Demographic Pressure and Access to Clean Cooking Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence From a Nonlinear Panel Analysis.” Sustainable Development. 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.71159.
18.Bidzanga, E. A. E., & Kouandou, A. (2026). Gender and intra-household agricultural land allocation: plot-level evidence from Nigeria. African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 9(2).
17. Mounmemi, M., & Kouandou, A. (2026). Leveraging Digital Finance for Energy Transition: The Role of Mobile Banking in West Africa. Development and Sustainability in Economics and Finance, 100139.
16. Mounmemi, M., and A. Kouandou (2026). “Participation in ROSCAs as a Driver of the Household Energy Transition in Cameroon.” Journal of International Development, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.70081
15. Kouandou Arouna (2026). The Role of Mobile Banking in Coping with Food Insecurity in Burkina Faso. Food Security, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-026-01644-x
14. Kouandou, A., & Kabré, A. B. (2026). ROSCAs and household welfare in rural Africa. Oxford Development Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2026.2615816.
13. Kouandou, A., & Zeh, I. P. (2026). Non-farm entrepreneurship and children's schooling: Panel data evidence from rural Côte d'Ivoire. International Journal of Educational Research, 137, 102924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102924
12. Kouandou. A (2025). Clean Energy Transition in West Africa: Does Social Capital Have a Role to Play? Journal of Energy and Development, 50(2), 147–171. https://doi.org/10.56476/jed.v50i2.78
11. Kouandou A, Laajimi R. (2025). Smartphones in the villages: impacts on agricultural intensification in Nigeria. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. Published online 2025:1-33. doi:10.1017/age.2025.10013
10. Mounmemi, M., & Kouandou, A. (2025). Starting a Non-Farm Enterprise to Escape Energy Poverty: Household Level Evidence from Rural West Africa. The Journal of Development Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2590457
9. Kouandou, A., & Legras, S. (2025). Structural Change in Rural West Africa: Does Mobile Banking Have a Role to Play? The Journal of Development Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2577319
8. Kouandou Arouna (2025). Does Gender Play a Role in The Adoption of Sustainable Intensification? Plot-level evidence from Senegal. World Development Sustainability 2025, 100255, ISSN 2772-655X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2025.100255.
7. Kouandou Arouna (2025). Mobile Banking, Agricultural Productivity and Welfare: Household Panel Data Evidence from West Africa. Review of Development Economics 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.70056.
6. Kouandou, A., & Legras, S. (2025). Welfare Impacts of Mobile Banking Use in Rural Africa: Gender Disaggregated Evidence from Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries: The European Journal of Development Research, 1-27.
5. Kouandou Arouna (2025). The role of remittances in clean energy adoption: New household level insights from West Africa, Energy Policy, Volume 202, 2025,114613, ISSN 0301-4215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114613.
4. Kouandou, A. & Laajimi, R. (2025). Does mobile banking matter for the adoption of modern agricultural technology? Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire. Development Policy Review, 43, e12820. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12820
3. Kouandou Arouna (2024). Preferences for sustainable intensification: Do agricultural interventions matter? Plot-level evidence from Senegal, World Development Perspectives, Volume 36, 2024,100645, ISSN 2452-2929, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100645
2. Kouandou Arouna and Zeh Inès Pérolde (2024). Insuring consumption against Shocks: The role of informal savings in Nigeria, Food Policy, Volume 129, 2024,102737, ISSN 0306-9192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102737.
1. Ndzonde Fonkou, Y.L; Ambagna, J.J; Kouandou, A (2024). Does participation in a farmer field school improve cocoa farmer yield in Cameroon? Agricultural Economics Review, 2024 Vol 25, No 2
Under Review
-R&R (Revise and Resubmit)
Saving for rainy days in Rwanda: Does mobile money have a role to play? Impacts and Mechanisms
Intra-household authority mismatch and productive inefficiency in extended households: Evidence from Nigeria
Welfare Impacts of Smallholder Mechanization: Micro-evidence from the Sahel (With Evrard Arnaud Ekani Bidzanga)
-R&R (Revision Requested)
Political Regime Change, Governance and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (With J.J Ambagna)
Under Submission
Leveraging Digital Finance to Close the Gender Productivity Gap: Evidence from Mobile Banking Use in West Africa
Disability, Financial Exclusion, and Agricultural Intensification in West Africa: Plot-Level Evidence
Clean Cooking, Time Use, and Youth Labour Reallocation in Rwanda (With Rawaa Laajimi)
From Digital Connection to Social Connection: How Social Media Influences Attitudes Toward Inter-Ethnic Marriage in Africa (With Moustapha Mounmeni)
From Informal to Formal and Digital Finance: Implications for Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in West Africa (With Anicet Kabré)
Hunger without borders: spatial spillovers and transmission channels of the conflict-food security nexus in sub-Saharan Africa (With J.J Ambagna)
Working Papers and In Progress
Banking the Future: Financial Inclusion, Aspirations, Capabilities and Agency
Entrepreneurship, Mobility, and Labor Market Exit: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria
Financing Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Nigeria
Digital Finance and the Environmental Upgrading of Firms: Theory and Evidence from a Developing Economy
Does Competitive Pressure Matter for Firm Dynamics? Evidence on the Mediating Role of Formalization in West Africa
Digital Financial Inclusion and Non-Farm Enterprise Dynamics in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mobile Banking Adoption (With A. Yatié)
One Transfer, Different Responses: Heterogeneous Causal Effects of Remittances on Consumption, Savings, and Entrepreneurship in West Africa (With J.J Ambagna)
Household Demand for Modern Cooking Devices: Causal Evidence on the Effect of Cash Transfers (With Moustapha Mounmeni)
Risk Coping without Insurance: How Agricultural Shocks Shape Financial Behaviour in Rural West Africa (With A. Yatié)
How Social Capital Shapes Household Food and Nutrition Security: New Evidence From Rwanda (With Rawaa Laajimi)
Cooking Up Gender Equality? LPG Adoption and the Gender Welfare Gap in Côte d'Ivoire (With F. Koné)
Long-term earning disparities in post genocide Rwanda (with Yacoub Kassouri)
Beyond Energy Bills: The Social Costs of Energy Poverty in France (With I. Sanou)