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Jean-Marie Baland
Researcher at Université de Namur
Publications - 110
Citations - 7810
Jean-Marie Baland is an academic researcher from Université de Namur. The author has contributed to research in topics: Collective action & Secret ballot. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 107 publications receiving 7537 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean-Marie Baland include Spanish National Research Council & Harvard University.
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Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?
TL;DR: In this paper, a wide-ranging book, based on a report to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, bridges the gap between the enormous amount of empirical literature documenting efforts at managing local-level resources and the quickly growing body of theoretical knowledge dealing with natural resource management.
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Is Child Labor Inefficient
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a model of child labor and study its implications for welfare, and derive conditions under which it may be Pareto improving in general equilibrium, when bequests are zero or when capital markets are imperfect.
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Governance and Development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss whether or not "governance" is an important source of variation in development experiences and draw four main conclusions: governance is best thought of a subset of "institutions" and as such emphasis on governance is consistent with much recent academic work Nevertheless, governance is a quite vague rubric which is difficult to unbundle.
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The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of inequality on the ability of human groups to undertake successful collective action is investigated with special reference to overexploitation of common property resources in voluntary provision problems.
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The Economics of Roscas and Intra-Household Resource Allocation
Siwan Anderson,Jean-Marie Baland +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated individual motives to participate in rotating savings and credit associations (roscas) and found that most roscas are composed of women, particularly those living in a couple and earning an independent income.