Selected articles in peer reviewed journals
Labor market penalty for single mothers. (with S. Chatterjee and S. Ojha) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming.
Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Cˆote d’Ivoire (with A. Basu, M. Gbakou and R. Viennet), Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 2023
Intra-household bargaining in Ivory Coast: Experimental evidence from rural areas (with A. Basu, E. Abou and R. Viennet). A version in French is forthcoming in Revue d’économie du développement, 2022
Crop choice, drought and gender: New insights into smallholders’ response to weather shocks in Uganda (with P. Agamile and J. Golan), Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021
Performance of large scale irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa (lead author: T. Higginbottom; co-authors: T. Foster, R. Adhikari and S. Redicker), Nature Sustainability, 2021
The political economy of child labor. Handbook of labor, human resources and population economics:2021
Entrepreneurship: structural transformation, skills and constraints. (with K. Pela), Small Business Economics, 2018
Is women’s ownership of land a panacea in developing countries? Evidence from land owning households in Malawi (with S. Bhaumik and I. Gang). Journal of Development Studies, 2016
Off-farm labor supply and correlated shocks. New theoretical insights and evidence from Malawi. (with S. Gangopadhyay, K. Michaelowa and A. Weber). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63, 361-391, 2015
The impact of food and economic crises on diet and nutrition (with I. Gang, D. Hoffman and P. Gbakou), Journal of Development Studies, 2014
Remittances and chain migration: longitudinal evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina (with F.C. Wolff), Journal of Development Studies
The global food crisis: disaster, opportunity or non-event? (with P. Gbakou), World Development, 46, 185-196, 2013
Good and bad institutions: is the debate over? Cross-country firm level evidence from the textile industry. (with S. Bhaumik). Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38(1), 109-126, 2013
Does human capital endowment of FDI recipient countries really matter? (with S. Bhaumik), Review of Development Economics, 17(3), 559-570, 2013
Do downward private transfers enhance maternal labor supply? (with F.C. Wolff), Journal of Population Economics, 24(3), 911-933, 2011
Allocation of labor in urban West Africa. Insights from the pattern of labor supply and skill premiums (with C. Nordman and F. Roubaud). Review of Development Economics, 14(1), 74-92, 2010
Upstream transfers and the donor’s labour supply. Evidence from migrants living in France (with F.C. Wolff), The Manchester School, 77(2), 204-244, 2009
Are private transfers poverty and inequality reducing? (with F.C. Wolff), Journal of Comparative Economics, 36(4), 584-598, 2008
Grandchild care transfers by ageing immigrants in France: Intra-household allocations and labour market implications (with F.C. Wolff), European Journal of Population, 24(3), 315-340, 2008
Self-selection and wages during volatile transition (with I. Gang), Journal of Comparative Economics, 35(3), 612-619, 2007
Special Issues in journals:
Understanding the links between labour and development (co-edited with Christophe. Nordman), European Journal of Development Research, 26(4), 2014
Institutions: Evolution, path dependency and anachronisms (co-edited with Antonio Savoia), Journal of Development Studies, 2016