Ongoing Research:
Champions of Change: Fostering gender-equal attitudes and behaviors through social targeting, joint with Yasmine Bekkouche (AFD), Nina Buchmann (Yale University), Sarah Deschênes (World Bank), Alex Sanchez (Princeton University), and the NGO Plan International. Funding received
Assortative Matching in Arranged Marriages, joint with Olivier Donni (THEMA) and Pauline Morault (THEMA)
Maternal and child health in developing countries: the consequences of USA aid policy, joint with Nathalie Ferrière (AMSE-Sciences Po Aix).
Mixed marriage legislation and Marital strategies, joint with Esther Delesalle (IEDES - Paris 1). Funding received
Polygamous Marriages, with Pierre André (THEMA) and Pauline Morault (THEMA)
Publications:
Income shocks, bride price and child marriage in Turkey, joint with Isabelle Chort (UPPA) and Karine Marazyan (LERN), February 2025, The World Bank Economic Review, 2025.
Marriage Payments and Wife's Welfare: All you need is love, joint with Sylvie Lambert, Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 103141.
Shifting Attitudes towards Domestic Violence: The Impact of Primary Education on Women’s Marital Outcomes in Benin, joint with Sarah Deschênes, The World Bank Economic Review, 2023, lhad033.
Demand for Insurance and Within-Kin-Group Marriage: Evidence from a West-African Country, joint with Karine Marazyan, Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146
Parental divorces and children's educational outcomes in Senegal, joint with Juliette Crespin-Boucaud, World Development, 2021, 105483, 145
Mesurer le coût de l'enfant, deux approches à partir de l'enquête Budget de Famille, in Dossiers Solidarité et Santé, n°62, pp 1-50, June 2015.
Working Papers:
Expanding Access to Schooling in Nigeria: Impact on Marital Outcomes, with Sarah Deschênes (World Bank).
Field Work:
Impact of a Mobile Health Insurance on Women's Empowerment in Kenya, measured by a Lab-in-the-field, with researchers from the African Population and Health Research Center (Hermann Donfouët, Estelle Sidze), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Wendy Janssens, Menno Pradhan) and the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (Richard de Groot).
Fund raising, organization and supervision of the data collection
Qualitative Field for Survey Preparation: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, joint with Yasmine Bekkouche.
Survey design, fund raising, organization and supervision of the data collection
through video recording, interviews and class observation.