About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Université de Montréal and an affiliate of CIREQ. I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market. My doctoral work is featured in the Maison des affaires publiques et internationales scholar portrait (in French).
I study how public policy shapes competition, prices, and access in concentrated markets, from broadband subsidies in the United States to mobile money in Senegal. I answer these questions with structural models, and when the econometric tools I need don't exist, I build them.
Job market paper
Build or Subsidize? The Welfare Effects of Deployment and Affordability Subsidies in U.S. Broadband
Abstract
Should broadband subsidies make service cheaper, or build it where none exists? I evaluate the two largest programs of the 2021 Infrastructure Act in one welfare framework: the $14.2 billion Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and the $42.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. I pair cross-state event studies with a tract-level structural model of demand, pricing, and entry estimated on 170,419 products across 66,454 census tracts. Because the entry game is intractable at this scale, I bound provider-tier fixed costs with a moment-inequality estimator that never computes an equilibrium. ACP cut prices 7–10 percent at peak and shifted demand toward faster plans; BEAD’s effects are smaller and lagged, tracking construction timelines. In counterfactuals over a 25-year horizon, BEAD returns at least $12 in welfare per subsidy dollar under my most conservative assumptions and about $26 in the baseline; ACP’s measured gains roughly offset its outlays, a floor that omits the equilibrium price cuts the event study documents. The programs complement rather than substitute: BEAD’s gains fall on unserved and monopoly tracts and stay flat across income, while ACP’s fall on low-income households and stay flat across market structure. The sequencing rule follows: build where deployment is uneconomic, then target affordability where price still binds.
Interests
- Industrial Organization
- Econometrics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Public Economics
Education
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Ph.D. in Economics, 2021–2027 (expected)Université de Montréal
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M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics, 2016–2019ENSAE-Dakar
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B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2013–2016Université Nazi Boni (ex. Université Polytechnique), Bobo-Dioulasso
Selected awards & fellowships
- Finalist, Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award2025
- Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture Fellowship, ranked 2nd2024–2026
- Ph.D. Scholarship, Maison des Affaires Publiques et Internationales, FAS2026–2027
- J.W. McConnell Foundation Chair Scholarship in American Studies2025–2026
- Ph.D. Fellowship, Department of Economics and CIREQ, Université de Montréal2021–2024
- World Bank Vice President’s Program for African Statistical Schools2019–2021
Selected presentations
- 2026 African Econometric Society Conference, Cairo; AMIE Workshop; CIREQ; Industrial Organization Study Group, Montréal
- 2025 Competition Bureau of Canada (invited seminar), Gatineau; Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award Workshop, Ottawa; Congrès SCSE, Orford; CIREQ-UdeM Seminar
- 2024 CIREQ Econometrics Conference, Montréal; Canadian Econometric Study Group Annual Meeting, Toronto