PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

A. PUBLIC POLICY PAPERS 

1. Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada: How Are They Funded and Regulated?, Library of Parliament, January 2025. [Version en Français ici]

2. Impacts of a Cash-Plus Programme on Women's Savings Groups in Mali, with Frank Otchere, Juliana N.Tirivayi, and Valeria Groppo, UNICEF Research Brief, August 2024.

3. Canada's Retirement Income System, with Diana Ambrozas. Library of Parliament, No. 2019-40-E, May 2024.

4. The Determinants of Protective Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Benin. AERC Research Paper 551, February 2024.

5. Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth, with Gwyther Rees, Eszter Timar, Frank Otchere, Alessandro Carraro and Sabbiana Cunsolo, UNICEF Innocenti Report Card 18, December 2023.

6. The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity in Burkina Faso, with Pouirkèta Rita Nikiema. AERC Policy Brief, AHCV-PB-003, November 2023. 

7. Political Partisanship and Cooperation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Benin, with Rodrigue Sossou. Fund Actionable Research from the University of California at Berkeley, July 2022.

B. ACADEMIC PAPERS

8. Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Burkina Faso, with Pouirkèta R. Nikiema. Economies, 13(6), 155, June 2025.

9. The Impact of Sense of Belonging on Health: Canadian Evidence, with Mehdi Ammi and Ian Allan. Applied Economics, June 2024.

10. Expectation, Beliefs, and Perceptions in the Modern Economy, with Edda Claus. Journal of Economic Surveys, Special Issue, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2024.

11. Do Expenditures on Public Health Reduce Preventable Mortality in the Long Run? Evidence from the Canadian Provinces, with Mehdi Ammi, Emmanuelle Arpin and Sara Allin. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 345, March 2024, 116696.

12. Prioritization of Public Health Financing, Organization, and Workforce Transformation: A Delphi Study in Canada, with Mehdi Ammi, Sara Allin, Ak’ingabe Guyon, and Jasmine Pawa. BMC Public Health, 23:544 (2023)

13. Peer-Induced Beliefs Regarding College Participation, with Vincent Boucher and Arnaud Dufays. Economics of Education Review 90 (2022) 102307.

14. Remittances and Agricultural Productivity in Burkina Faso, with Rolande Kpekou.  Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 2022, 44(3): 1573-1590. Working Paper version

15. Analyse Comparative des Déterminants de la Croissance des Pays de l'UEMOA et des Pays à Forte Croissance [IN FRENCH], Revue d'Analyse des politiques économiques et financières, Volume 1 - Numéro 1, Août 2015, pp 41-68.

SELECTED WORKS-IN-PROGRESS

• Organ Donation and Transplantation in Canada

• Women and Poverty in Canada: Revisiting the 1995 Beijing Declaration

• The Economic Cost of Long-COVID

• On the Importance of Trust: A Survey

DORMANTS

• The Dynamics of Loneliness and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from Australia, with Mehdi Ammi. Under revision

• Exploring the Personal Attributes of Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Evidence in the Canadian Context, with Elie V. Chrysostome and Jean-Marie Nkongolo.