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 target affordability or deployment? I study the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in one welfare framework, combining cross-state event studies with a tract-level structural model of demand, pricing, and entry fit to choices over 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 avoids computing equilibria. ACP lowered prices 7–10 percent at peak and shifted demand toward faster plans; BEAD’s effects are smaller and lagged, consistent with construction timelines. In counterfactuals, BEAD returns roughly $26 in welfare benefits per subsidy dollar over a 25-year horizon, while ACP roughly breaks even, largely transferring to households who would have subscribed anyway. The programs complement rather than substitute: where deployment requires large fixed costs, price relief and fixed-cost relief relax different binding constraints. BEAD’s gains concentrate in unserved and monopoly tracts and are flat across income; ACP’s concentrate in low-income households and are 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