Research

Publications

1. Irrigation Infrastructure and Satellite-Measured Land Cultivation Impacts: Evidence from the Senegal River Valley [Paper][Online Appendix] [Replication Files]
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 179, February 2026, 103615
(with Alain de Janvry, Joel Ferguson, Samba Mbaye, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Mame Mor Anta Syll)

2. How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal [Paper][VoxDev][Replication Files]
Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 150, March 2025, 103699
(with Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, and Ahmadou A. Mbaye)

3. Conserving Wildlife through Demand Reduction and Supply Alternatives: Two Experiments in Restaurants in Kinshasa [Paper][Replication Files][AEA Pre-Analysis Plan]
People and Nature, 00, 1-15, March 2025
(with Gabriel Englander, Daniel J. Ingram)

Working Papers

4. The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Senegal [Paper][Online Appendix]
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review

5. Service Quality, Affordability and Electricity Fraud: Evidence from Senegal [Paper][Online Appendix]

6. Understanding Value Chain Structure and Functionality: The Domestic Onion Value Chain in Senegal [Paper]
(with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Mame Mor Anta Syll and Carly Trachtman)

Other Projects

1. Firm vs. Household Inertia in Technology Adoption: Evidence from Prepaid Meters in Senegal

2. Mapping Energy Use to Consumer Welfare: Experimental Evidence from Senegal (with Ethan Ligon)

3. Privatization and Subsidies in Electricity Markets (with Khadidja Ngom)

4. The Effects of Electricity Reliability on Human Capital

Policy

1.  A Tale of Sustainable Energy Transition under New Fossil Fuel Discoveries: The Case of Senegal [Paper]
(with Serigne Abdoul Aziz Niang and  Mamadou Simina Dramé)

2. Caractérisation et analyse de l'influence des conditions météorologiques sur les interruptions du reseau de distribution au Sénégal [Paper]
(with Serigne Abdoul Aziz Niang and  Mamadou Simina Dramé)

Old Projects

1. Income Shocks, Child Fostering and Education in Senegal, June 2016