PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Natural Disasters and Poverty Reduction: Do Remittances Matter? Cesifo Economic Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2017, pp 481-499 with Alassane Drabo
2. Bride price and fertility decisions: Evidence from rural Senegal, The Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 891-910 with Natascha Wagner
3. Natural Disasters and Human Mobility, International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics: Vol. 10: No. 1, 2016, pp. 37-56 with Klaus F. Zimmermann
- Formerly Environmental Disasters and Migration, IZA DP No.9349 Sep.2015 [Link]
4. Natural Disasters, Migration and Education: an Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries, Environment and Development Economics, Volume 20, Issue 06, December 2015, pp 767-796. with Alassane Drabo
- Formerly: Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries, IZA DP No.7770, November 2013 [Link]
5. Barcelona or Die: Understanding illegal migration from Senegal, IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:21 [Media coverage: The Economist, The Globe and Mail ]
WORKING PAPERS
6. Migration and The autonomy of women left-behind, WIDER Working Paper 2017/64 Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2017 with Julia Anna Matz
7. Remittances and Credit Markets: Evidence from Senegal, IZA Discussion Paper n°9340, 2015.
- Also published in the Working Paper Series of the AfDB N° 232, African Development Bank [Media coverage: International Growth Center (IGC) blog]
8. Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal, IZA Discussion Paper n°7517, 2013 with Jean Louis Arcand
WORK IN PROGRESS
9. The colonial origins of banking crisis (with L. Cook, A.Shimeles, A. Simpasa)
10. Climatic shocks and women empowerment in Africa
11. Migration and Labor market flexibility in Africa (with A.Shimeles, A. Woldemichael)
