Research

Publications  

Identity During a Pandemic: COVID-19 and Ethnic Divisions in the United States (with Jakina Debnam Guzman and Roland Pongou), AEA Papers & Proceedings, 112:319-24, 2022.  

The Sex Gap in Neonatal Mortality and the AIDS Epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa (with Sanni Yaya, Setou Diarra, and Roland Pongou), BMJ Global Health,  3(5), e000940, 2018.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa (with Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falezan, and Pauline Rossi) -- Job Market Paper, NBER Working Paper 31993, Under Review 

Democracy and Inequality in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Individual-Level Data on Infant Mortality (with Carmen Jacqueline Ho and Roland Pongou), Working Paper, Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Politics 

Democracy, Genes, and the Male Survival Disadvantage (with Roland Pongou), Working Paper, Reject and Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics

Colonial Origins and Fertility: Can the Market Overcome History? (with David Canning and Roland Pongou), Working Paper, Under Review

Policies Inclusive of Men Improve Women's Marriage Outcomes: Evidence from A Post-Colonial Reform (with Jean-Louis Bago, Sylvain Dessy, and Roland Pongou), Under Review

Ancestral Norms, Legal Origins, and  Female Empowerment (with Abel Brodeur and Roland Pongou), IZA Discussion Working Paper 13105 

Earthquake, Banks, and Capital Destruction: Causal Evidence from Haiti (with Aissata Boubacar Moumouni and Roland Pongou) 

Book Chapter

The Interplay Between Colonial History and Postcolonial Institutions: Evidence from Cameroon (with Roland Pongou), in Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon, Célestin Monga (ed.) Oxford University Press,  2022.