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Jean-Marie Baland

Jean-Marie Baland

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Economics and Finance

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34
Citations
10679
World Ranking
3002
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jean-Marie Baland is affiliated with the University of Namur in Belgium and has contributed to the field of social sciences, with a focus on areas such as general health professions, gender studies, sociology and political science, reproductive medicine, and safety research.

Their research covers several main topics including global health care issues, demographic trends and gender preferences, reproductive health and technologies, homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, gender, labor, and family dynamics, poverty, education, and child welfare, as well as microfinance and financial inclusion.

Recent publications by Jean-Marie Baland include:

  • "Too Young to Die": Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality, 2021, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • Avortements sélectifs, naissances instrumentales et la règle d'arrêt, 2023, Revue d'économie du développement
  • Sharing norm, household efficiency and female demand for agency in the Philippines, 2023, World Development

Some papers co-authored by Baland have appeared in collaboration with researchers such as Guilhem Cassan, Catherine Guirkinger, Benoît Decerf, François Bourguignon, and Jean-Philippe Platteau.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Revue d'économie du développement
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • World Development

Jean-Marie Baland has also contributed to book publications, including titles released by notable publishers:

  • The Handbook of Economic Development and Institutions, published by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 2020
  • Integrating Mortality into Poverty Measurement through the Poverty Adjusted Life Expectancy Index, published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks in 2022

In recognition of their work, Jean-Marie Baland has been awarded membership in the Academia Europaea since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • The Economics of Roscas and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation

    Siwan Anderson;Jean-Marie Baland

  • Is Child Labor Inefficient

    Jean‐Marie Baland;James A. Robinson

  • Rent-seeking and resource booms

    Jean-Marie Baland;Patrick Francois;Patrick Francois;Patrick Francois

  • Governance and Development

    Jean-Marie Baland;Karl Ove Moene;James A. Robinson

  • The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • Wealth inequality and efficiency in the Commons, part II: the regulated case

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • Pretending to Be Poor: Borrowing to Escape Forced Solidarity in Cameroon

    Jean Marie Baland;Catherine Guirkinger;Charlotte Mali

  • Halting degradation of natural resources

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • The environmental impact of poverty: evidence from firewood collection in rural Nepal.

    Jean‐Marie Baland;Pranab Bardhan;Sanghamitra Das;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile

    Jean-Marie Baland;James A Robinson

  • Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability

    Jean-Marie Baland;Pranab K. Bardhan;Samuel Bowles

  • Division of the Commons: A Partial Assessment of the New Institutional Economics of Land Rights

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • Enforcement in informal saving groups

    Siwan Anderson;Jean-Marie Baland;Karl Ove Moene

  • Commons as insurance and the welfare impact of privatization

    Jean-Marie Baland;Patrick Francois;Patrick Francois;Patrick Francois

  • The distributive impact of land markets in Uganda

    Jean-Marie Baland;Frederic Gaspart;Jealn-Philippe Platteau;Frank Place

  • Economics of Common Property Management Regimes

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • Coordination problems in local-level resource management

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • Wealth Inequality and Efficiency in the Commons

    Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

  • The Economics of Roscas and Intra-Household Resource Allocation

    Siwan Anderson;Jean-Marie Baland

  • The Political Value of Land: Political Reform and Land Prices in Chile

    Jean-Marie Baland;James A. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Philippe Platteau
Jean-Philippe Platteau University of Namur
James A. Robinson
James A. Robinson University of Chicago
Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University
Pranab Bardhan
Pranab Bardhan University of California, Berkeley
Karl Ove Moene
Karl Ove Moene University of Oslo
Debraj Ray
Debraj Ray New York University
Jean Drèze
Jean Drèze University of Delhi
François Bourguignon
François Bourguignon Paris School of Economics
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
Thierry Verdier
Thierry Verdier Paris School of Economics

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