PubliCATIONS

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

Lastest WP here

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  

Latest WP here

Working Papers

Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa  [R&R, Journal of the European Economic Association]

VoxDev column here

Information and Conflict: from the Role of (Social) Media and Public Opinion to Big Data and Forecasting with Maria Petrova, [Accepted, Economic Policy]

VoxDevTalk here

Selected Work in progress

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

Explaining Recent Trends in the Practice of Female Genital Cutting in Sub-Saharan Africa with Emmanuelle Auriol and Suzanna Khalifa

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

Access to Power, Political Institutions and Ethnic Favoritism (with Hannes Mueller)