Yao Thibaut KpegliPhD in Economics
UPPA - Campus universitaire Collège SSH - UMR 6031 TREE Bâtiment Droit Economie Gestion Avenue du Doyen Poplawski 64000 PAU
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Economics of Risk, Uncertainty and Beliefs, Applied Econometrics, Health Economics, Development economics
yao-thibaut.kpegli @ univ-pau.fr
Parcours
Professional experience
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Sep. 2024 - |
Assistant professor, Universit´e de Pau et laboratoire TREE (TRansitions Energ´etiques et Environnementale) |
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Jan. 2023 - |
Consultant, The World Bank: Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice |
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Aug. 2024 |
Temporary Lecturer and researcher, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure Paris-Saclay |
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Aug. 2023 |
Lecturer and researcher, ´ Ecole normale sup´erieure de Lyon |
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April. 2023 - |
Lecturer, Universit´e Catholique De L’Afrique De L’Ouest (UCAO) - Guinea (Conakry) |
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Nov. 2020 - |
Teaching Assistant, Universit´e Lumi`ere Lyon 2 & Universit´e Jean Moulin Lyon 3 |
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Aug. 2019 - |
Consultant, Consortium pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale (CRES) - Senegal |
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Feb. 2017 - |
Research Assistant, Consortium pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale (CRES) - Senegal |
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Nov 2016 - Jan |
Research Assistant, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) and World Bank |
Education
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2019-2023 |
PhD in Economics, Universit´e Lumi`ere Lyon 2 & GATE LSE - France |
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2018-2019 |
M2 (Msc) in Economics and Finance, Universit´e Lumi`ere Lyon 2 - France |
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2015-2016 |
M2 (Msc) in Quantitative and Economic Analysis, Universit´e Gaston Berger (UGB) - Senegal |
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2013-2014 |
L3 (Bachelor) |
Distinctions, awards, and grants
- 2019-2022 Ministry of Higher Education’s full Research Grant to finance the best PhD projects in
Economics in Lyon and Saint-Etienne - 2020-2021 GATE-Lab funding program to finance the two best experimental designs of PhD
students - 2018-2019 IDEXLYON Scholarship to reward the best international students who wish to enter
the social science masters programs of universities of Lyon and Saint-Etienne (France) - 2012-2016 Scholarship from municipalities of Grand-Popo (Benin) & Saint-Louis (Senegal) to
reward the fact that I had the
Compétences
IT skills and Languages
- Statistics Stata, R, Python, SAS, Matlab, Power BI, SQL, GitHub
- Writing Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Latex
- Languages English (Excellent), French (Excellent)
Thèmes de recherche
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Economics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Beliefs
- Applied Econometrics
- Health Economics
- Development economics
Publications
Publications
KPEGLI.Y.T., Corgnet B., Zylbersztejn A.(2023). All at Once! A Comprehensive and Tractable Semi-parametric Method to Elicit Prospect Theory Components. Journal of Mathematical Economics
MANE. P. Y. B., DIAGNE. A.,KPEGLI.Y.T.(2019). Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of Noncommunicable Diseases: Extension and Application to Senegal. Economics Bulletin. Vol. 39 No. 4 pp. 2904-2912.
NDIAYE. A. A., KONTE. M. A., KPEGLI. Y. T.(2017). The Solow model augmented with the net capital inflows to-GDP-ratio.Economics Bulletin. Vol 37. No 3 pp. 2020-2029.
Working papers
Against the Odds! The Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives is Alive and Well! (with Corgnet B., Hern´an-Gonz´alez R. & Zylbersztejn A.).
Non-parametric Random ProbabilityWeighting Method for Measuring Prospect Theory.
Measuring Beliefs and Ambiguity Attitudes for Discrete Sources of Uncertainty (with Erazo D. M. A.).
Reports
Impact of out-of-pocket health payments on poverty and alignment of public and external health financing with this impact in Guinea (with Porgo T. V. and Kouanda Z. K., World Bank Working paper).
Works in progress
○ Market asset pricing in the presence of positively skewed assets and probability weighting. (with Brice Corgnet and Jacopo Magnani)
Policy notes and Blogs
PORGO. T. V., AMISSAH. R. Q., BACHONGY. K., SORGHO. G., KPEGLI.Y. T.(2024).
Harnessing the power of the private sector for universal health coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Blog
of The World Bank
MANE. P. Y. A., DIAGNE. A.,KPEGLI.Y.T.(2018). Effectiveness of tobacco product taxation systems in ECOWAS member countries: tax incidence approach. CRES Policy Note
MANE. P. Y. A., DIAGNE. A.,KPEGLI.Y.T.(2018). Effectiveness of tobacco product taxation
systems in ECOWAS member countries: tax frontier approach. CRES Policy Note
MANE. P. Y. A., DIAGNE. A.,KPEGLI.Y.T.(2018). Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in ECOWAS
Countries. CRES Policy Note
Conferences and Workshops
Nov. 15, 2023 ESA Job Market Seminar, hold online
June 2023 ESA World Meetings in Lyon, University Lyon 2, France
May 26, 2023 World Bank Group Africa Fellowship BBL Series, Online, Washington
Sept. 2022 European ESA conference, Bologna, Italy
July 2022 Risk, Uncertainty and Decision (RUD) conference, Paris School of Economics (PSE), Paris, France
June 2022 ESA World Meetings in Boston, MIT Sloan, USA
Aug. 2021 Subjective Probability Utility and Decision making (SPDUM) conference, University of Warwick, hold online
July 2021 Invitation for presenting, Univ. Perpignan, lab. CEDED, France
April 2021 PhD student workshop, Doctoral School of Economics and Management of Lyon, hold online, France
Feb. 2020 GATE internal seminar
Supervision of master thesis
2023 Master 2 in Economics, Universit´e de Thies, Senegal
○ Student: Z´ef´erino Agbahoungba
○ Title: Impact of climate change on the poverty of rural women: An application in Benin
2021 Master 1 in Economics, Universit´e Lumi`ere Lyon 2, France
○ Student: Abou Bakar Kader Dolle
○ Title: Commodity price variations and economic and social instabilities Referee
2017-2023 Journal of Economic Theory, Economics Bulletin, Review of Development Economics
November 13, 2024
