Research

Publications and Forthcoming

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

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)

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

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

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

How Does Electricity Fraud Respond to Price Changes?

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

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

The Effects of Privatization on Revenue Collection and Service Quality (with Khadidja Ngom)

Policy

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)

Old Projects

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