About Me

I am a PhD student in Economics at Texas A&M University. My fields are in Applied Microeconomics and Industrial Organization.

Previously, I worked as Senior Research Analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute, and as a Consultant for the World Bank and KfW Development Bank.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Barba FM, Jaimovich D. Ethnic Diversity and Forest Commons.
  
  World Development, 2022; 158:105986
• Barba FM, Huybregts L, Leroy JL. Incidence correction factors for moderate and severe acute child malnutrition from two longitudinal cohorts in Mali and Burkina Faso.
  
  American Journal of Epidemiology, 2020; 189(12):1623–1627
• Huybregts L, Le Port A, Becquey E, Zongrone A, Barba FM, et al. Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements into community-level screening.
  
  PLOS Medicine, 2019; 16(8):e1002877

Policy Briefs

• Huybregts L, Diop L, Diatta AD, Fall T, Barba FM, Becquey E. Reducing child wasting through integrated prevention and treatment in Mali. IFPRI Policy Note, July 2023
• Becquey E, Touré M, Djoufouna AD, Affenou A, Barba FM, Diatta AD, Dione M, Sawadogo A, Huybregts L. Community volunteers deliver integrated prevention and treatment services to reduce child wasting in Chad. IFPRI Policy Note, July 2023

Software

• Stata: clustermax – command to select a maximum number of distance-buffered clusters from point coordinates.
• ArcPy: order2voronoi – ArcGIS tool to create Order-2 Voronoi Diagrams.

Blog

• Estimating the burden of child acute malnutrition accurately , IFPRI Research Post, December 3, 2023

Teaching Assistance

• ECON 426 – Antitrust Economics (Fall 2025)
• ECON 412 – Public Finance (Fall 2025)
• ECON 461 – Economic Data Analysis, Two weekly recitations (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

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