Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Researcher in Economics

Research fields : Development economics, Migration, Economic history


Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

UMR LEDa, Team DIAL, University Paris Dauphine PSL, IRD (260), CNRS (8007)

Research fellow at ICM

Member of the AFEDEV network

Director, Master 2 ADEPP (Aide à la Décision et Evaluation des Politiques Publiques), Dauphine University-IRD-ENSAE, Campus Franco-Sénégalais, Dakar 


Contact: 

Tel: 33 1 53 24 14 64 

email: sandrine.mesple-somps@ird.fr 

New working papers

Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962. 2024 PSE Working paper n° 2024 – 15, HAL Id: halshs-04598604, 31 pages + Appendix (with D. Cogneau, Y. Dupraz, E. Huillery) R&R

What one thinks, what one says and what one does: male justifications and practices of gender-based violence in Mali. 2024, CEPREMAP Working paper (Docweb) n°2406, 38 pages  (with O. Bertelli, T. Calvo, E. Lavallée, M. Mercier)

Measuring insecurity-related experiences and preferences in a fragile State, a list experiment in Mali, DIAL Working Paper n° 2023-01, 42 pages (with O. Bertelli, T. Calvo, E. Lavallée, M. Mercier)


Works in progress


“Left behind” but at school? Heterogeneous effects of migration on education: Evidence from Mali (with F.  Arestoff)

Can road investments trigger structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa? The case of Mali (with H. Selod, G. Spielvogel and B. Blankespoor )

Efficiency of Female Genital Mutilation bans in Africa (with O.  Bertelli, O.  and M. Lesueur)

Intergenerationnel mobility in nine African countries (with A-S. Robilliard)