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

Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics

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

(With Guirkinger C and Villar P) 

Link to Working Paper

Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Development Economics

• Islam and the Fate of Clans in Africa

(With Platteau J-P and Guirkinger C)

• It Takes a Lineage: Kinship structure and Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

(With Jolivet A and Angelini L)

Selected work in progress

• 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)

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

De las Grandes a las Pequeñas preguntas, y ¿viceversa? Medio siglo de economía del desarrollo a propósito de la traducción de La Gran Divergencia de Kenneth Pomeranz

Revista Papeles de Relaciones Ecosociales y Cambio Global, 2026

Link to pre-publication version (in spanish)

Book Review. Lucas Chancel: "Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment''

Revista Papeles de Relaciones Ecosociales y Cambio Global, 2022

Book Review. Quinn Slobodian: "Globalists. The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism''

Revista de Economía Crítica, 2021

Robustness and Reproducibility in Development Economics

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