Working Papers

Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa CEPR Working Paper [Conditionally Accepted, Journal of the European Economic Association]



Why Harmful Social Norms Persist in Some Groups but Not Others: Evidence from Female Genital Cutting [Draft available upon request]; 

with Emmanuelle Auriol and Suzanna Khalifa

PubliCATIONS

Information and Conflict: from the Role of (Social) Media and Public Opinion to Big Data and Forecasting with Maria Petrova, Economic Policy, October 2025 (Vol. 40) Issue 124 

The Cost of Fear: Impact of Violence Risk on Child Health during Conflict,  Journal of Development Economics, January 2023 (Vol. 160) 102975  

The Power of Markets: Impact of Desert Locust Invasions on Child Health with Bruno Conte and Lavinia Piemontese,  Journal of Health Economics, January 2023 (Vol. 87) 102712  



Selected Work in progress

Informal Conflict Mitigation Institutions with Saumitra Jha


The Boundaries of Prosocial Behavior in Africa with Horacio Larreguy and Paul Seabright


Polygyny, Early Marriage, and Fertility: An Equilibrium Model of Family Decisions in Burkina Faso with Joan Llull



Policy Reports AND OLD Working PAPERS

Conflict Prediction using Kernel Density Estimation, AFD Research papers series, no.239, March 2022

Recovery from Conflict: Lessons of Success (with Hannes Mueller and Lavinia Piemontese), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, no.  WPS 7970