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, entry, and access in concentrated and digital markets, from broadband subsidies in the United States to mobile money in Senegal. I combine causal evidence with structural models and develop econometric tools when existing methods are not scalable or robust enough for the policy question.
Job market paper
Build or Subsidize? The Welfare Effects of Deployment and Affordability Subsidies in U.S. Broadband
Abstract
Should broadband subsidies make service affordable or extend networks to unserved areas? I compare the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) with the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program using a new nationwide dataset linking prices, speeds, providers, and exposure across more than 70,000 census tracts. Continuous-treatment event studies show that ACP exposure reduced posted prices by 7–10 percent and shifted menus toward faster plans. BEAD effects appear after construction lags, when market structure shifts consistent with entry. I estimate a structural equilibrium model of endogenous prices, menus, and entry. Non-dominance inequalities bound fixed costs without solving a combinatorial entry game. At a 75 percent subsidy, BEAD generates 6,700–8,600 firm-market entries and about $7 in five-year welfare per public dollar, with gains largest in monopoly markets. ACP generates about $1 per dollar, concentrated among low-income households. Results imply sequencing: deploy where entry is unprofitable, then subsidize affordability where prices remain binding.
Interests
- Industrial Organization
- Econometrics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Public Economics
Education
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Ph.D. in Economics, 2021–2027 (expected)Université de Montréal, Canada
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M.Sc. in Statistics and Economics, 2016–2019Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique, Senegal
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B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2013–2016Université Nazi Boni (ex. Université Polytechnique), Burkina Faso
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
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