I am currently Assistant Professor at the Guanajuato School of Economics where I teach Microeconomics 1 and Econometrics 1, and continue for the time being working on migration and schooling in Senegal, but plan to switch to the Mexican case very soon.
I received my Ph.D from the Toulouse School of Economics, in July 2008. My thesis is entitled: How Family Prestige can Shape Intergenerational Transfers: Migration, Remittances and Schooling in Matam, Senegal.
After being taught advanced Economic Theory, Statistics and Econometrics, I conducted repeated fieldworks among the Haalpulaar communities both in France and Senegal studying intergenerational family transfers.
I ended up conducting my own household survey near Matam (Middle Senegal Valley), and very naturally felt the need to mix a Development Microeconometrics approach with a more qualitative one borrowed from other Social Sciences.
I ideally would like to pursue working in a multi-disciplinary environment doing research on Development issues, and teaching Economics and Quantitative Methods to a large audience.
My interests include the following themes:
Economic Development, Applied Microeconometrics, Migration and Remittances, Schooling, Social Status, Economics of Caste in West-Africa, Cultural Studies, Senegal, Mexico.