Papers

Publications

• History Matters: The Long Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa, April 2009, American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, 1(2): 176-215

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• The Impact of European Settlement within French West Africa: Did Pre-colonial Prosperous Areas Fall Behind?, August 2009, Revised and Resubmitted Journal of African Economies

Working Papers

• The Black Man's Burden - The Cost of Colonization of French West Africa, April 2009, Paris School of Economics Discussion Papers 

Work In Progress

• The role of information and social learning on risky sexual behaviour - Evidence from a randomized experiment in Cameroon (with Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Juliette Seban)

• Local empowerment in school management: corruption or efficiency? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Niger (with Elizabeth Beasley)

• Does human and social capital help in entrepreneurship? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Morocco (with Bruno Crépon, Dean Karlan and William Pariente)

• Supporting youth entrepreneuship in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in France (with Bruno Crépon, Esther Duflo and William Pariente)