Contact

Paris-Nanterre University
200 Avenue de la République
92001 Nanterre Cedex
UFR SEGMI

EconomiX Laboratory

CNRS UMR 7235
Bureau : 209 (Bât. G)

Tel : 01 40 97 59 22

Email : abdoulayekan229@yahoo.fr

Current situation

PhD in economics

• Thesis subject: Productivity in the construction sector: Diagnosis and the Role of Market Structure

• Academic supervisors: Nadine Levratto (Research Supervisor CNRS) and Jimmy Lopez (HDR, LEDI)
• Research topics: Construction sector, Productivity, Regulation, Panel data, Sectoral data, Firm data, Applied econometrics

Education

• 2019 – 2022: PhD in economics, Université Paris Nanterre, EconomiX, Doctoral Section 396: Economics, organisation, society

• 2018 – 2019: Master 2 in Applied Economics, Public Policy Analysis, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté (Valedictorian)

• 2017 – 2018: Master 1 in Applied Economics, Public Policy Analysis, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté

• 2016 – 2017: Bachelor’s degree in Economics, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté

Professional and academic experiences

• Since 06 February 2023: Economist (Research & Expertise) at the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment in Marne-la-Vallée (Bibliographic studies, Collection and analysis of megadata, Statistical programming (Python, SAS, R and Stata), Machine Learning with Python (Supervised and unsupervised learning), Quantitative studies at the level of construction and energy renovation companies, Simulation of renovation demand requirements in the French building stock (residential and tertiary), Production of research deliverables)

• November 2019 – November 2022: CIFRE researcher in economics at the Centre Scientifique et Technique du bâtiment de Marne-la-Vallée (Big data gathering, extraction, transformation and analysis, data visualization, indicator construction and analysis, econometric modeling, querying and project studies)

• Semester 2 2022-2022: Teaching assistant in Statistical Tests (L2 Economics-Management) (Probability, Statistical models, Empirical estimators and their properties, Confidence intervals, Hypothesis tests)

• Semester 2 2020-2021: Teaching assistant in Statistical Tests (L2 Economics-Management) (Probability, Statistical models, Empirical estimators and their properties, Confidence intervals, Hypothesis tests)

Research activities

Publications:

• Kané, A. and Lopez, J. (2023). Productivity and Regulation in the Construction Sector: evidence for OECD Countries. Applied Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2023.2208845 
• Kané, A . (2022). Measurement of total factor productivity: Evidence from French construction firms. No 2022-9, EconomiX Working Papers 

Seminars & Conferences:

• June 2022: 70th Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Dijon
• March 2022: Measurement of total factor productivity: Evidence from French construction firms
• November 2021: 20th Day of Econometrics, Paris-Nanterre University
• April 2021: Total factor productivity and regulation in the construction sector: A comparative analysis on sectoral data
• June 2020: Digital transformation in construction
• May 2020: OECD SPATIAL PRODUCTIVITY LAB – 8^th MEETING  

Econometric software and programming language

• PYTHON (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Statsmodels et Scikit-Learn)

• SAS programming

• R programming

• SQL & NoSQL

• STATA

• STATISTICA

• EVIEWS

• SPSS

• JAMOVI