I am researcher in social sciences at the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) and work at DIAL, a research unit of the LEDa.
My research interests are in development and environmental economics.
DIAL-LEDa
4, rue d’Enghien
75010 Paris
kenneth.houngbedji[at]ird.fr
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]
Certified to stay? Long-Run Experimental Evidence on Land Formalization and Widows' Tenure Security in Benin, with Iona Botea, Markus Goldstein, Florence Kondylis, Michael O'Sullivan and Harris Selod, [pdf]
Rainy days and learning outcomes: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, with Yasmine Bekkouche and Oswald Koussihouèdé, [pdf]
Effect of typhoons on economic activities in Vietnam: Evidence using satellite imagery, with Etienne Espagne, Yen Ha, and Thanh Ngo-Duc [pdf]
Long-Term Impact of Forest Management Plans on Forest Disturbances in the Congo Basin, with Marc Bouvier, Antoine Leblois, Jean-Sylvestre Makak, and Benoit Mertens
Land Restitution and Deforestation in Colombia, with Marie Boltz, Philippe Delacote, Julien Jacob, and Laura Peralta
Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Clément Imbert, Samuel Marshall, Julien Wolfersberger, and Liam Wren-Lewis
What are the limits to voluntary certification? Evidence from an attempt to protect forests, with Johanna Isman, Maria Plakhtieva, and Liam Wren-Lewis
Land Registration and Gender Concerns in Rural Benin, with Vibuthi Mendiratta
Deforestation and Development: How Do Forests and Population Living Standards Coevolve? with Marie Boltz and Philippe Delacote, 2023, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Springer International Publishing [pdf]
Discussion of ‘The Political Economy of Land Reform’, 2023, State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin: The Institutional Diagnostic Project, François Bourguignon, Romain Houssa, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Paul Reding, Cambridge University Press [pdf]
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]