Research

Working Papers

The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Senegal  [Job Market Paper]

Irrigation Infrastructure and Satellite-Measured Land Cultivation Impacts: Evidence from the Senegal River Valley
R&R, Journal of Development Economics, April 2025
Abdoulaye Cisse, Alain de Janvry, Joel Ferguson, Samba Mbaye, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Mame Mor Anta Syll

Understanding Value Chain Structure and Functionality: The Domestic Onion Value Chain in Senegal
Abdoulaye Cisse, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Mame Mor Anta Syll and Carly Trachtman, August 2023

Publications

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

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

Other Projects

Mapping Energy Use to Consumer Welfare: Experimental Evidence from Senegal

Theft Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the Electricity Market in Senegal (with Djibril Ndiaye)

Firm and Household Inertia: Evidence from the Electricity Market in Senegal

Colonization and Crop Choice (with Thibault Fally and Jay Sayre)

Policy

A Tale of Sustainable Energy Transition under New Fossil Fuel Discoveries: The Case of Senegal (with Serigne Abdoul Aziz Niang and  Mamadou Simina Dramé), July 2024 

Old Papers

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