Selected articles

• Formalizing land rights can reduce forest loss: Experimental evidence from Benin, with Luis Becerra-Valbuena and Liam Wren-Lewis, 2020. Science Advances, 6 (26), eabb6914 [pdf]

• Do forest management plans and FSC certification help avoid deforestation in the Congo Basin? with Isabelle Tritsch, Gwenolé Le Velly, Benoit Mertens, Patrick Meyfroidt, Christophe Sannier and Jean-Sylvestre Makak , 2020. Ecological Economics, 175, 106660 [pdf]

• Land certification and schooling in Rural Ethiopia, with Heather Congdon Fors and Annika Lindskog, 2019, World Development, 115, 190-208 [pdf]

• Formalization without certification? Experimental evidence on property rights and investment, with Markus Goldstein, Florence Kondylis, Michael O'Sullivan and Harris Selod, 2018, Journal of Development Economics, 132, 57-74 [datasets], [pdf], [working paper]

• Property rights and labour supply in Ethiopia, 2018, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 131, 137-179 [pdf], [working paper]

• The triumphant elephant’s return? Growth and income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire (1988-2015), with Denis Cogneau and Léo Czajka, 2017, Afrique contemporaine, 263-264 (3), 221-225 [pdf]

• Abadie's semiparametric difference-in-differences estimator, 2016. Stata Journal, 16(2), 482-490 [pdf]

Work in progress

• Land Registration and Gender Concerns in Rural Benin, with Vibuthi Mendiratta (WB)

• Rainy Days and Academic Performance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, with Yasmine Bekkouche (PSE) and Oswald Koussihouèdé (IIEP)

• Electrification in Africa: Patterns and Impact, with Arthur Contejean (IEA) and Denis Cogneau (EHESS, IRD, PSE)

Book chapter

• The fall of the elephant: Two decades of poverty increase in Cote d’Ivoire (1988-2008), with Denis Cogneau and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, 2016, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, Arndt, Channing and McKay, Andy and Tarp, Finn , Oxford University Press [pdf], [working paper]