Abdoulaye Cisse
Job Market Paper:
The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Senegal
Fields of research:
  • Development
  • Energy and Environment
Publications / Working Papers:
  • How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims: Evidence from Senegal (with Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Ahmadou A. Mbaye) [Accepted at Journal of Monetary Economics]

  • Irrigation Infrastructure and Satellite-Measured Land Use Impacts: Evidence from the Senegal River Valley (with Alain de Janvry, Joel Ferguson, Samba Mbaye, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Mame Mor Anta Syll) [R&R at Journal of Development Economics]

  • Conserving Wildlife through Demand Reduction and Supply Alternatives: Two Experiments in Restaurants in Kinshasa (with Gabriel Englander and Daniel J. Ingram) [R&R at People and Nature]

  • Understanding Value Chain Structure and Functionality: The Domestic Onion Value Chain in Senegal (with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Mame Mor Anta Syll and Carly Trachtman)

Education:
  • PhD, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Expected May 2025)
  • BA, Economics, Stanford University (2016)
Honors and Awards:
  • UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2024)

  • CEGA Development Economics Challenge Grant (2023)

  • CEPR Structural Transformation and Economic Growth Grant (2023)

  • Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics (2023)

  • JPAL KCAI Grant (2023)

    UC Berkeley Xlab Research Grant (2023)

  • PEDL Exploratory Grant (2022)

  • Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics (2022)

  • Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics (2021-2023)

  • UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship (2019-2024)

  • Stanford University Award of Excellence (2016)

Teaching:
  • Development Economics, Instructor of Record, UC Berkeley (Summer 2022)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics, Instructor of Record, UC Berkeley (Summer 2021)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics, Jeffrey Perloff, Graduate Student Instructor (Spring 2022)
  • Intermediate Microeconomics, Xiangyi Meng, Graduate Student Instructor (Spring 2024)
  • Introduction to Environmental Economics, Maximilian Auffhammer, Graduate Student Instructor (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)
  • Introduction to Econometrics, Instructor of Record, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Summer 2021)
  • Introduction to Non-Parametric Econometrics, Instructor of Record, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Summer 2022)
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Contact Information:

245 Giannini Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720
Email: cisse@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510)-216-9146
Website: https://www.acisse.com/

Placement Directors:

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Tel: 510-643-5472

Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
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Placement Officer:

Diana Lazo
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Tel: 510-642-3345

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