Philippe obtained a MA from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, a MPhil in Statistics and Economics at the Free University Brussels and his PhD from the University of Namur (Belgium). He received his BA in Economics from McGill University.
Philippe's field of specialization is Development Economics. His research encompasses a broad range of topics: from intra-household consumption allocation decisions to informal institutions such as saving and insurance groups. His work draws on an original dataset that he himself collected in Benin which features data at the individual level. In his job market paper he provides evidence that suggest that husband and wife are not pooling their respective incomes and thus are not making expenditure decisions on the basis of one common budget. Furthermore, his empirical results show that spouses’ respective financial spheres are relatively independent from one another: individual private goods consumption being independent from spouse’s income effect which is not the case for public goods consumption. His future work will be based on his newly collected panel dataset on issues such as saving groups participation and the efficiency of insurance groups.
Personal Interests
Philippe, a fan of the pianist Glenn Gould, has over the years accumulated a collection of pieces of African tribal arts (ranging from Luba, Mossi, Senoufo, etc.). Cycling and developing photos constitute part of his hobbies.
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