RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Agricultural & Resource Economics. My fields of specialization are: development economics, labor economics, applied econometrics, urban economics and program evaluation. My current research interests focus on the impact of migration on urbanization processes, and poverty dynamics in Brazil. A second paper looks at the impact of education on teenage childbearing using evidence from the Kenyan DHS surveys. A third paper looks at the relationship between city size and poverty, using several national poverty maps. In other related topics, I have been working on education and conditional cash transfers (PROGRESA), the impact of volatility and macroeconomic crises on individual and household welfare (after the last Argentinean crisis), the determinants of poverty dynamics in rural Moroccan communes, the production of poverty maps when consumption surveys are of low quality (Djibouti city).  The overall aim of my research is to use both theory and rigorous econometric analysis to examine questions with important policy implications. Future research will continue to focus in these areas, as well as expand to new topics, particularly in the areas of health and urban economics. In other areas, I am interested in aesthetics and philosophy. The former includes the perception of aesthetics through image (travels, movies, art, architecture), sounds and words. The latter includes the use of cinema, literature, architecture and art to convey philosophical and political beliefs.

PUBLICATIONS

Cartes de la Pauvreté - Djibouti Ville, with Mohamed Youssouf. World Bank - ADETIP - DISED (February 2007). Économies émergentes et en développement, in L'Économie Mondiale 2008, Collection La Découverte, Agnès Chevallier ed. (October 2007).

ON-GOING PROJECTS  [more details]

Does Migration Foster Polarization in Urban Centers? The Case of Brazil, 1995-2000. Age at First Child: Does Education Delay Fertility Timing? The Case of Kenya. Is there a metropolitan bias? Urban Poverty and Access to Services by City Size in Six Developing Countries, with F. Ferreira and P. Lanjouw. Rural Povery and Geography: Towards Some Stylized Facts in the Devloping World, with P. Buys, P. Lanjouw and T. Thomas. Dynamics of Rural Poverty in Morocco: Evidence from Small Area Estimates, 1994-2004. Asymmetries, Inequalities and Macroeconomic Shocks: the Case of Argentina.

EDUCATION

2004 - today: 2004: 2003: 2002:

PhD. Candidate in Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley M.A. in Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley D.E.A. de Macroéconomie (M.Phil. in Macroeconomics) M.A. in Business & Management (Major in Economics) H.E.C. School of Management, Paris

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2007: 2006 - 2007: 2003 - 2006: 2002 - 2003: 1999: 1999:

University of California, Berkeley - Outstanding GSI (Graduate Student Instructor) award. University of California, Berkeley - Ford Foundation Grant. University of California, Berkeley - Departmental Grant. University of Paris I, Sorbonne - Bourse sur critère d'excellence (Excellency scholarship). Département d'Ile-de-France - Federal grant for Solidarté France-Népal. H.E.C. Paris, France - Field-work mini-grant.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

World Bank, Washington D.C. - Consultant - DECRG (Research Group) [2006 - today] Is there a metropolitan bias? Urban Poverty and Access to Services by City Size in Six Developing Countries. [2006 - today] Dynamics of Rural Poverty in Morocco: Evidence from Small Area Estimates, 1994-2004. [2006 - 2007] World Development Report 2008 - Agriculture. Background papers for chapters 2 and 3. [2004 - 2005] World Development Report 2006 - Equity & Development - Decomposition of inequality indexes for chapter 2. World Bank, Washington D.C. - Consultant - MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) [2006 - today] Atlas de la pauvreté - Djibouti Ville. Mission preparation, follow-up. World Bank, Washington D.C. - Consultant - ECA (Eastern Europe and Central Asia) [July-Aug. 2007] Update of the 2001 Albanian Poverty Map. World Bank, Washington D.C. - Consultant - SEA (South East Asia) [July-Aug. 2007] Connectivity study in India, using NSS-54, NSS-58 and NSS-60.
2005:	University of California, Berkeley - Research Assistant For Alain de Janvry on Uninsured Risk & Asset Protection: Can Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Serve as Safety Nets? Social Protection Working Paper # 0604 - World Bank.
2003 - 2005:	University of California, Berkeley - Research Assistant For Elisabeth Sadoulet on Can conditional cash transfers serve as safety nets to keep children at school and out of the labor market?, World Bank Working Paper.
2002 - 2003:	University of Paris I, DELTA. Family structure and mortality estimates: the case of Indonesia, under the direction of François Bourguignon, World Bank Chief Economist.
2002:	H.E.C. School of Management, Paris The financing of private enterprises in China: the impact of reforming the financial system, under the direction of Michael Rockinger, HEC.
2001:	Ecole Normale Supérieure (E.N.S.), Paris Analysis of the informal sector in post-war Yugoslavia, Que Sais-je?, P.U.F.

FIELD WORK

April 2008: May, December 2007: April 2007: December 2006: October 2006: June - August 1999:

Rabat, Morocco, World Bank. Dynamics of Poverty in Morocco Djibouti, World Bank. PDSTP-PRUSID Mission. Rabat, Morocco, World Bank. Dynamics of Poverty in Morocco Djibouti Ville, World Bank. Poverty Map of Djibouti City in cooperation with the DISED. Rabat, Morocco, World Bank. Dynamics of Poverty in Morocco. Kavhrepalanchok, Nepal. Solidarité France-Népal (NGO). Field-work in Nepal (biogas ovens and micro-credit implementation).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Spring 2008:	Development Economics: Theory, cases studies and methodology. HEC School of Management - Masters in Economics - Lecturer.
Spring 2006:	Econometrics & Statistics UC Berkeley, Economics 140 - Teaching Assistant to Professor G. Woroch.
Fall 2005:	Econometrics & Statistics UC Berkeley, Economics 140 - Teaching Assistant to Professor E. Moretti.
1998 - 2002:	Mathematics & Statistics College tutor in Mathematics & Statistics (equivalent of M.A. level). College tutor in French Literature & Philosophy (undergraduate level).
1998 - 1999:	English H.E.C. School of Management Teaching Assistant to Professor V. Gautier.