Welcome to my academic website
I am a Post-doctoral researcher in Economics at the Bordeaux School of Economics and SPIA Country Affiliate for Ethiopia. I am currently visiting NOVAfrica. I defended in October 2024, see my dissertation. My research focuses on agricultural transformation, local value-chain, and rural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. I was a Fulbright visiting scholar at UC - Berkeley in 2022-2023.
Publications
(2024).
Competition on Agricultural Markets and Quality of Smallholder Supply: The Role of Relational Contracting and Input Provision by Traders.
Economic Development and Cultural Change.
(2024).
Returns to Quality in Rural Agricultural Markets: Evidence from Wheat Markets in Ethiopia.
Journal of Development Economics.
Work in progress
(2025).
Experimental design for encouraging the adoption of Aflasafe among small-scale farmers in Nigeria.
Writing.
(2025).
General equilibrium effects of social policy: evidence from the Ethiopian Productive Safety Net Program.
Draft available upon request.
(2025).
Market Information and R&D Investment under Ambiguity: A Framed Artefactual Experiment with Plant Breeding Professionals.
IFPRI Discussion Paper.
(2024).
The effects of cassava drying technology on commercialization and consumption smoothing in rural Uganda.
IGC Final report.
(2024).
Buyers' response to third-party quality certification: Theory and evidence from Ethiopian wheat traders.
IFPRI Discussion Paper.
Teaching
- Econometric Software: introduction to Stata (Univ. of Bordeaux - Mageval 1)
- Microeconomics (Univ. of Bordeaux - Undergraduate level)
- Causal Inference I (Univ. of Bordeaux - Master Development Economics)
- Introduction to Machine Learning for economists (Univ. of Bordeaux - Master 2 Public Policy Evaluation)
- Economic issue in Africa (Graduate level - Univ. Montaigne Bordeaux)