News – Olivia D'Aoust

Confronting Conflict and Fragility in Africa – 2015 ABCA Conference

16 Jun

Check out some of the work presented at the Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA). The take-aways from the two days and "four dozen papers in less than 2000 words" is here. Various topics were addressed, such as climate change, infrastructure, measurement issues and...
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Burundi 2015: Insights from 2010 electoral violence

4 May

Although the 2010 elections cannot be compared to what has been happening in Burundi since Nkurunziza announced his candidacy for a third term (good summary of recent events), the 2010 elections were also perturbed by political violence and intimidations. In a recent paper, Andrea Colombo, Olivier Sterck and I...
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From Stata to R: 3D plot of an interaction effect

2 May

This post is a first a series that I called "From Stata to R". If you also like to pass from one software to the other depending on the things you want to do (and the time you have), I figured...
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Github

15 Apr

I am now on Github, and plan on sharing more and more... I recently submitted my PhD in a book format. You can find my latex template here and improve it as much as you like (by forking it). If you...
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Visiting UC Berkeley

26 Aug

I am currently a Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher in Economics at UC Berkeley, sponsored by Prof. Edward Miguel. I will be in Berkeley for the academic year 2014-2015. If you pass by and would like to meet up, let me know...
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New Paper: From Rebellion to Electoral Violence

16 Jul

"From Rebellion to Electoral Violence. Evidence from Burundi" is now an ECARES WP. It is co-authored with Andrea and Olivier. We aim at understanding the triggers of electoral violence, which spoiled elections in Africa during the last decades. We focus on Burundi,...
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Thought for the day

13 Jul