Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University, Stern School of Business
Theme Leader (The Role of the Public Sector), Structural Change and Economic Growth (STEG)
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Research Network Affiliate, CESifo
Member, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO)
Primary field: Macroeconomics
Secondary fields: Public Finance, Development Economics, Political Economy
Email: abdou.ndiaye@nyu.edu
In Spring 2025, I will be visiting the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
A thematic summary of my research is available here.
Working Papers
Minneapolis FED OIGI Working Paper #19230, under review
Joshua Coven, Sebastian Golder, Arpit Gupta, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
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Media coverage: Bloomberg, Minneapolis Fed, Homes.com, CoStar News, Arpitrage, The Roundup, NYU Stern Research Highlights,
NBER Working Paper #31722, under review
Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
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Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, NYU Stern Research Highlights, Atlanta Fed
NBER Working Paper #32730
Bocar A. Ba, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Roman G. Rivera, and Alexander Whitefield
CEPR Discussion Paper #18890, under review
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Media coverage: a16z Crypto Research
CEPR Discussion Paper #19666, under review
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
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Media coverage: a16z Crypto Research
Under Revision
Reject & Resubmit at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
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Media coverage: Chicago Fed letter
Revise & Resubmit at Journal of International Economics
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Media coverage: NPR Marketplace
Publications
Forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cisse, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, and Ahmadou A. Mbaye
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Media coverage: VoxDev, Brookings Africa Growth Initiative, World Bank
Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, vol. 1, num. 2, pp. 371-402, June 2023
Pawel Doligalski, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Nicolas Werquin
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Media coverage: Minneapolis Fed OIGI
Forthcoming in ACM FC 2024: Proceedings of the International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
(In computer science, conferences are peer-reviewed and are the primary publication outlet)
Selected Ongoing Research
- Productivity Growth in Government: Evidence from Tax Collection
Radhika Goyal, Andres Jensen, David Lagakos, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
- Can Digitization Help Foster Synergies between Urban Service Delivery and Local Revenue Mobilization?
In the field. DigiFi grant. Location: Kanifing, The Gambia
Hamidou Jawara, Justine Knebelmann, Joseph Levine, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Victor Pouliquen
- Credit and Conflict in Nigeria
Olalekan Bello, Simone Lenzu, Toni Oki, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
- Redistributing Transportation Costs to Resolve Inequalities
Data collection completed. Location: Ghana
Francis Annan and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
- Breaking Barriers: How Policies, Norms, and Preferences Shape Women's Labor Force Participation
Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Zhixiu Yu
Policy Papers
Financing unemployment insurance in high-informality economies: A survey analysis of Senegal
Brookings Policy Brief, Global Economy & Development, 2023
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Kyle Herkenhoff, Abdoulaye Cisse, and Alessandro Dell’Acqua
Reforming Social Security to Save Social Security
Chicago Fed Letter, 2019 No 419
Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Lisa Camner McKay
Gestion Optimale des Réserves de Change dans l'UEMOA, 2016
Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Assessing the Inclusiveness of Growth in Africa: Evidence from Senegal, Cameroon, and Tanzania
World Institute for Development Economics Research Working Paper, 2014/120
Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Arthur Bauer, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Clara Champagne, Tite Yokossi, Nathalie Ferrière, Hédi Brahimi, and Jeanne Avril
Discussions
"Taxing Water Usage in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" by Alejandro Estefan at National Tax Association Meetings 2023
"Expansion of Piped Water and Sewer Networks: The Effects of Regulation" by Bruna Morais Guidetti and Carolina Tojal Ramos dos Santos at National Tax Association Meetings 2023
"Larger transfers financed with more progressive taxes? On the optimal design of taxes and transfers" by Ferriere, Grubener, Navarro, and Vardishvili at National Tax Association Meetings 2021
"Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Model with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Shocks" by Sebastian Dyrda and Marcelo Pedroni at National Tax Association Meetings 2021
"The Taxation of Couples" by Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer, Andreas Peichl, and Daniel Weishaar at National Tax Association Meetings 2020
"Politics and Income Taxes: Progress and Progressivity" by Marcus Berliant and Pierre Boyer at National Tax Association Meetings 2020
"Capitalist Human Capital" by Vincenzo Quadrini, Qi Sun, and Yicheng Wang at Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics 2019
``Politically feasible reforms of non-linear tax systems" by Felix J. Bierbrauer and Pierre C. Boyer at Fourth Taxation Theory Conference 2018
``Income Taxation, Firing Costs and Insurance within Firm'' by Pawel Doligalski at National Tax Association Meetings 2017
``Inverse December Fever'' by Zareh Asatryan, Andreas Peichl, Thomas Schwab, and Johannes Voget at National Tax Association Meetings 2017
Lecture Notes
PhD Macro Public Finance
Part I - Classical Public Finance Revisited
Lecture 0: Introduction to Macro Public Finance Slides, Lecture Notes
Lecture 1: Commodity Taxation and Productive Efficiency
Lecture 2: Wealth and Capital Taxation in Ramsey Model: Chamley-Judd Slides
Lecture 3: Wealth and Capital Taxation Revisited: Straub-Werning Slides
Lecture 4: Nonlinear Income Taxation Slides, Deterministic Optimal Control Notes
Part II - Dynamic Income Taxation
Lecture 5: Dynamic Taxation I: Capital Taxation Slides
Lecture 6: Dynamic Taxation II: Labor Income Taxation Slides
Lecture 7: Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Wages
Slides:Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies, S. Stantcheva
Slides: Redistribution and Performance Pay, P. Doligalski, A. Ndiaye, N. Werquin
Lecture 8: Disability Insurance Slides
Part III - Contemporary Topics in Macro PF
Lecture 9: Taxation and Aggregate Shocks Slides
Lecture 10: Efficiency of Wealth vs Capital Gains Taxation
Slides: Use it or Lose it: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation, Guvenen et al.
Slides: Efficient Redistribution, Boar and Midrigan
Lecture 11: Gender
Lecture 12: Discrimination and Racial Inequality Slides
Macro Development for Policymakers
Lecture1: Intro to Macro Development
Lecture 2: Growth, Infrastructure, and Technological Change
Lecture 3: Productivity and Human Capital in Developing Countries
Lecture 4: Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Services: Key Concepts of Structural Transformation
Students
2024-2025: Abdoulaye Cissé, UC Berkeley ARE
Placement: On the 2024/2025 Job Market (letter writer)
2023-2024: Alessandro Dell'Acqua, NYU Stern Predoc
Placement: PhD in Economics, UC Berkeley
2022-2023: Yifan Shi, NYU Research Assistant
Placement: Predoc in Finance, Kellogg
2018-2019: Richard De Thorpe, Chicago Fed Predoc
Placement: PhD in Economics, Princeton