folan cayo
c. kagné

PhD student
Paris School of Economics

I am a doctoral researcher at the Paris School of Economics. My work sits at the intersection of experimental economics, social psychology, and political philosophy. I study how social exclusion, identity, and institutions shape cooperative behaviour — with a particular interest in carceral settings and marginalised communities. I also engage with Africana philosophy and decolonial thought as complementary theoretical frameworks.

Paris School of Economics
48 boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris, France

work in progress

econ-ish
Social Cooperation and Exclusion in Prisons
Experimental economics — thesis chapter
social exclusion cooperation public goods incarceration
Over 11.5 million people are incarcerated globally, with the French prison system facing acute challenges such as overcrowding, poor conditions, and high recidivism. An original experiment was conducted in a French Maison Centrale, combining a public goods game, social inclusion priming, and qualitative interviews. The findings challenge the notion of a unified "criminal brotherhood" — no significant ingroup bias was observed — yet social inclusion priming increased cooperation toward out-group members, suggesting that minimal psychological interventions can foster prosociality across group boundaries.
Beyond Exclusion: Social Identity and the Provision of Public Goods in Experimental Settings
Experimental economics
social identity public goods experiment
This project extends the experimental investigation of social exclusion and cooperation beyond carceral contexts, examining how identity salience and exclusion priming interact with voluntary contribution mechanisms in controlled laboratory settings.
not-so-econ
Philosophies et langues africaines, une introduction
Africana philosophy — en français
Africana philosophy language Kagamé Diagne
Cet essai explore les idées d'Alexis Kagamé sur la philosophie bantoue, mettant en avant son approche linguistique. Il remet en question les généralisations de Placide Tempels, soulignant l'importance du langage dans la pensée philosophique africaine. L'essai aborde les perspectives de Souleymane Bachir Diagne — encourageant à dépasser les nationalismes ontologiques pour embrasser la diversité philosophique — et conclut sur la proposition d'« incliner sans nécessiter ».
Introduction to Africana Philosophy
Africana philosophy — survey piece
Africana philosophy Black existentialism decolonial thought
A survey piece situating Africana philosophy as a distinctive mode of inquiry confronting fundamental questions of existence, freedom, and human dignity under conditions of racialized oppression — drawing on Lewis Gordon, Fanon, Du Bois, and the Black radical tradition.