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IAS offers qualitative research in African history, anthropology, and sociology. The institute promotes African culture by teaching African languages, performing arts, and hosting literary events. IAS plays a key role in the academic program as African history is core to the ASE curriculum. IAS projects include: On the Trails of the Amazons of the Dahomey

Since its founding in 2004, the Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IERPE; French: IREEP) has conducted over 30 projects dealing with Governance, Education, Financial Inclusion, History, Public Health, Security, Agricultural Policies, and Electoral Behavior. Noteworthy projects include “Education and Human Capital Externalities in Colonial Benin” (see Wantchekon et al. 2014) and a project