Papers and other publications
Productive Inclusion Programs in Urban Africa, World Bank Social Protection and Jobs Discussion Paper, March 2023
with Jorge Avalos, Tim Clay and Puja Dutta
Can psychosocial interventions make anti-poverty programmes more cost-effective? Evidence from Niger, VoxDev blog post, February 2023
with Patrick Premand and Catherine Thomas
Yes we can! Unbundling poverty graduation programs for cost-effective impact, World Bank Development Impact blog, May 2022
with Markus Goldstein, Patrick Premand and Julia Vaillant
Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints to Alleviate Poverty, Nature, May 2022
with Markus Goldstein, Bassirou Karimou, Dean Karlan, Harounan Kazianga, William Parienté, Patrick Premand, Catherine Thomas, Christopher Udry, Julia Vaillant, Kelsey Wright
Behind the Paper (with P. Premand)
Working paper version: Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 9562, March 2021)
Pathways out of extreme poverty? The cost-effectiveness of productive inclusion measures in Sahelian safety nets, World Bank's Let's Talk Development blog, April 2021
with Patrick Premand
Resilience at scale: productive inclusion through safety nets in the Sahel, World Bank's Jobs and Development blog, March 2021
with Patrick Premand
Productive Inclusion Measures and Adaptive Social Protection in the Sahel, The State of Economic Inclusion Report, January 2021
with Edward Archibald and Patrick Premand
After the Rains: Assisting flood-affected households through adaptive social protection, World Bank's Development and a Changing Climate blog, October 2020
with Christian Bodewig and Nuria Branders
Constraints to Productive Employment Faced by Safety Nets Beneficiaries in the Sahel : Results of a Multi-Country Qualitative Assessment. World Bank, June 2020
with Estelle Koussoubé and Patrick Premand
Biometric Tracking, Healthcare Provision and Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control, NBER Working Paper No 26388, October 2019. Forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
with Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
The Power of Biometric Identification for Development, VoxDev blog post, September 2019
with Clara Delavallade, Vincent Pons and Vestal McIntyre
The Politics of Safety Nets: Don't Shy Away, World Bank's Africa CAN blog, November 2018
Knowledge about tuberculosis and infection prevention behavior: A nine city longitudinal study from India, PLOS-One, October 2018
with Sophie Huddart, Vincent Pons, Siddhartha Baral, Madhukar Pai and Clara Delavallade
Recognizing and Leveraging Politics to Expand and Sustain Social Safety Nets, in Beegle, Coudouel, Monsalve (eds): Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa. The World Bank, 2018
with Aline Coudouel
An Assessment of Employment in Niger, World Bank report, 2017
Experiments, Policy and Theory in Development Economics (ungated), Journal of Economic Methodology 23(2), 2016
with Clara Delavallade
Shape Up and Ship Out? Gender Constraints to Growth and Exporting in South Africa, in Brenton, Gamberoni, Sear (eds): Women and Trade in Africa: Realizing the Potential, The World Bank, 2013
with Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Markus Goldstein, Gareth Roberts, and Sandra Sequeira
Why is Economic Mobility so Low in Africa?, The New York Times, 2013
Social Mobility in Five African Countries, Review of Income and Wealth, 2013
with Denis Cogneau - media - award
Cross-cutting Cleavages, Discrimination and Inter-Personal Financial Transfers - A Lab Experiment in Chennai, India, APSA Annual Meeting Paper, 2011
with Joel Selway
Social Divisions and Interpersonal Transfers in India, OECD Conference Paper, 2011
with Joel Selway
Individual Determinants of Ethnic Identification, ERSA Working Paper, 2011
Ethnicity and Election Outcomes in Ghana, DIAL Working Paper, 2011
Giving Schoolchildren a Chance, Mint – The Wall Street Journal, 2008
with Clara Delavallade
Economic overview of Sub-Saharan Africa, in L’économie mondiale 2008, CEPII, La Découverte, 2007
Les déterminants de l’identification ethnique en Afrique de l’Ouest, Afrique Contemporaine n°220, 2007
Inequality and Equity in Africa, DIAL Working Paper and Notes et Documents, French Development Agency, 2006
with Denis Cogneau, Philippe De Vreyer, Charlotte Guénard, Victor Hiller, Philip Leite, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps, Laure Pasquier-Doumer, and Constance Torelli
Conjoncture et prevision macroeconomiques au Burkina Faso, in Rapport de conjoncture et prevision des pays de la Zone Franc, French Development Agency, 2006