An Indirect Cost of Conflict: Road Insecurity as a Barrier to Seasonal Migration in Mali

Mali has experienced, since the 2012 Tuareg-led rebellion followed by a state vacuum and the expansion of jihadist groups, a dramatic increase in the number of violent events targeting civilians. Relying on ACLED conflict data and eight waves of a nationally representative household survey conducted in 2011-2019, I investigate the impact of conflicts on migration routes on households’ ability to resort to seasonal migration as an income-smoothing strategy.

Long term development costs of Military Forced Labor in former French Soudan, with Zhexun Mo (PSE) and Ismaël Yacoubou Djima (PSE).

We digitize a unique set of military archives to investigate the colonial period and long term effects of colonial policies and forced labour in French West Africa.

Cooperation between National Armies: Evidence from the border regions in the Sahel, with Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE, CNRS)