Lucienne Talba is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Montreal. Prior to starting graduate school, she was a senior economist at the Ministry of Finance in Cameroon. She graduated in June 2012 from the Sub-Regional Institut of Statistics and Applied Economics, with a Master in Statistics and Applied Economics. At the University of Montreal, she is an affiliate of the Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative (CIREQ). Her research interests are development economics, economic history, political economy, and applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on the effects of culture and history for development in Sub-Saharan Africa.