Ongoing work

Artisanal mining in Africa, with Teresa Molina-Millán and Guillaume Vic. Revise & resubmit, The Economic Journal.

Extras & media: voxdev, World Bank Development Impact blog (get in touch for the gold suitability data)

The economics of violence against civilians, with Maleke Fourati and Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti. Submitted.

Sexual violence as a weapon of war, with Maleke Fourati and Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti. New version coming soon.

Extras & media: Novafrica podcast, vox.eu

Income or health? The case of artisanal mines, with Teresa Molina-Millán

Climate induced conflicts: the role of income diversification

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Mineral resources and ethnic identity, with Nicolas Berman and Mathieu Couttenier, 2023, The Economic Journal.

Extras & media: working paper version, vox.eu

Stabbed in the back? Mandated political representation and murders, 2021, Social Choice and Welfare.  

Extras & media: working paper version, GDN, UNU-WIDER video, Ideas4India (data focus)

The gold digger and the machine. Evidence on the distributive effect of the artisanal and industrial gold rushes in Burkina Faso, with Rémi Bazillier 2020, Journal of Development Economics. 

Extras & media: working paper version, VoxDev, World Bank, RES media brief, GDN blog, The Conversation, RFI, France Culture, L'OBS, The Daily Telegraph. Winner of the accessit best paper prize of the IOEA.

Don't Touch my Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action and Everyday Discrimination, 2018, World Development. 

Extras & media: working paper version, vox.eu, Ideas4India

Does inequality matter for conflicts? Evidence from religious conflicts in India, 2017, Revue d'économie politique.

The Spread of Rational Choice in the Social Sciences: A Sign of Strength or Weakness? On Rafael Wittek, Tom A.B. Snijders, Victor Nee (eds), The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research, with Camille Chaserant and Antoine Pietri, 2016, Revue française de sociologie.

Book Chapters

Measuring Caste-Based Discrimination. With Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Peter Mayer, 2023, Dalits in the New Millennium, edited by Sudha Pai, D. Shyam Babu and Rahul Verma, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Inflated Expectations and Commodity Prices: Evidence from Kazakhstan. With Alma Kudebayeva and Gerhard Toews, 2021, Handbook on the Sustainable Politics and Economics of Natural Resources, edited by Indra Overland and Stella Tsani, Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Media: Free Network policy brief

Industrial and artisanal exploitation of mineral resources: what impacts on development? With Agnès Zabsonré, 2021, The Economics of Mineral Resources: The Challenge of Sustainability, edited by Florian Fizaine and Xavier Galiègue, ISTE-Elsevier. 

Winner of the AEE prize of the best book