Peer-reviewed publications
Resources Policy, forthcoming. “How much do artisanal miners earn? An inquiry among Congolese gold miners”
(with Sara Geenen and Marijke Verpoorten)
Development and Change, 2020. “Risk, envy and magic in DRC’s artisanal mining sector: insights into the ‘Modernity of Witchcraft'”
(with Marijke Verpoorten) link PDF blog
World Development, 2019. “Artisanal or Industrial Conflict Minerals? Evidence from Eastern Congo”
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link PDF policy brief
media: The Conversation
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019. “Voodoo, vaccines and bed nets”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Koen Deconinck) link PDF policy brief
PLoS ONE, 2018. “More legislation, more violence? The impact of Dodd-Frank in the DRC”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link replication policy brief
media: Washington Post; PERC
Resources Policy, 2017. “Defusing the social minefield of gold sites in Kamituga, South Kivu. From legal pluralism to the re-making of institutions?”. (with Kilosho Buraye and Marijke Verpoorten) link PDF policy brief
Environment and Development Economics, 2016. “To fish or not to fish? Resource degradation and income diversification in Benin”.
(with Romain Houssa and Marijke Verpoorten) link PDF
Food Policy, 2013. “Self-reported food insecurity in Africa during the food price crisis”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten, Arora Abimanju and Johan Swinnen) link
Working papers, policy briefs & blog posts
IOB Blog, 2020. “Covid-19 vs. Ebola: High stakes for Eastern DRC”
(with Sébastien Desbureaux, Audacieux Kaota, Elie Lunanga, and Marijke Verpoorten) link French version
IOB Working Paper, 2020. “Covid-19 vs. Ebola: impact on households and SMEs in Nord Kivu, DR Congo”
(with Sébastien Desbureaux, Audacieux Kaota, Elie Lunanga, and Marijke Verpoorten) link
IOB Blog, 2020. “The super-natural is super-rational”
(with Marijke Verpoorten) link
The Conversation, 2019. “The way that minerals are mined affects conflict in eastern Congo”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link
IOB Policy Brief 39, 2019. “Artisanal or Industrial Conflict Minerals?”
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link
HiCN Working Paper 308, 2019. “Artisanal or Industrial Conflict Minerals? Evidence from Eastern Congo”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link
Cato Institute – Research Briefs in Economic Policy 145, 2019.”More legislation, more violence? The impact of Dodd-Frank in the DRC”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link
NIDS Discussion Paper 2019/07, 2019. “Exploring psychological well-being and poverty dynamics in South-Africa: evidence from NIDS waves 1-5”. (with Murray Leibbrandt and Rocco Zizzamia) link
Washington Post – The Monkey Cage, 2018. “Trump threatened to suspend the ‘conflict minerals’ provision of Dodd-Frank. That might actually be good for Congo”. (with Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt) link
IOB Policy Brief 29, 2018. “Voodoo, vaccines and bed nets. Magicoreligious beliefs affect health behavior in Benin”.
(with Marijke Verpoorten) link
IOB Working Paper 9, 2016. “Relocation, reorientation, or confrontation? Insights from a representative study among artisanal miners in Kamituga, South-Kivu”. (with Marijke Verpoorten and Kilosho Buraye) PDF French version
IOB Policy Brief 10, 2015. “The social minefield of gold digging in South-Kivu, DRC: the case of Kamituga”.
(with Kilosho Buraye and Marijke Verpoorten) PDF
Amani Itakuya II Essay Series, essay 14, 2015. “The social minefield of gold digging in Kamituga, South-Kivu”.
(with Kilosho Buraye and Marijke Verpoorten) link
Selected work in progress
“Would you fight? We asked aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern Congo”
(with Marijke Verpoorten)
“Violent displacement and empathy. The determinants of hosting in Eastern Congo” PAP
(with Peter van der Windt)
“Jobs and stability in North-Kivu, DRC: evidence from a policy experiment”
(with Marijke Verpoorten)
“Powering development, stabilisation and conservation? The impact of electricity roll-out in Eastern Congo”
(with Elie Lunanga and Marijke Verpoorten)
“Field experiments on Common Pool Resource Management in Benin”
(with Elena Briones Alonso, Romain Houssa and Marijke Verpoorten)