Publications

• Measuring Norms and Enumerator Effects: Survey Method Matters

(with Champeaux H)

The World Bank Economic Review, 2026

Link to published paper; Link to Working Paper

Working papers

• Shaking the Traditional Order: Women's Conversion to New Christian Churches in Sub-Saharan Africa

(With Platteau J-P and Guirkinger C) 

Link to Working Paper

• Paths to the Rainforests: Ancestral Beliefs and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Link to Working Paper

• Competition and Educational Inequality in Post-colonial D.R. Congo

(With Guirkinger C and Villar P) 

Link to Working Paper

Selected work in progress

• It takes a lineage: Kinship structure and Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

(With Jolivet A and Angelini L)

• Husbands in the Room: The Impact of Joint vs. Women-Only Training on Household Dynamics in Benin

(With Guirkinger C, Jolivet A and Lülle A)

• The Invisible Leash: Belief Systems and the Perpetuation of Gender Inequality 

• A Century of Education in the D.R. Congo: Colonial Origins, Patterns and Dynamics

(With Guirkinger C and Villar P)

• Islam and the Clan

(With Platteau J-P and Guirkinger C)

Other writings

L'héritage des  Sœurs Catholiques Missionnaires :  Effets sur le Capital Humain des Femmes en RDC

(With Baland J-M, Guirkinger C, and Villar P)

Révue d'Économie du Développement, 2025

Link to published paper; Link to working paper

Robustness and Reproducibility in Development Economics

(PIs: Jorg Ankel-Peters, co-PI: Anna Dreber and Magnus Johannesson)