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).
Buyers' response to third-party quality certification: Theory and evidence from Ethiopian wheat traders.
IFPRI Discussion Paper; R&R American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
(2025).
Leveraging the Transformational Potential of AI to Empower Small-Scale Farmers in Ethiopia.
Pilot phase (email me for more information).
(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.
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)