2026 Jean-Philippe Platteau: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	46	1630	1458	17	14	206	14762

Overview

Jean-Philippe Platteau is affiliated with the University of Namur in Belgium and specializes in social sciences with a focus on various subfields including sociology and political science, safety research, development, economics and econometrics, and soil science.

Their recent papers cover multiple topics within development and economics. Notable publications include:

Preparing for a responsible lockdown exit strategy, 2020, Nature Medicine
Cognitive bias in insurance: Evidence from a health scheme in India, 2021, World Development
Are women emancipating? Evidence from marriage, divorce and remarriage in Rural Northern Burkina Faso, 2021, World Development
Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Reward Better Governance? A Paradox of Aid Allocation, 2020, The Economic Journal
Aid allocation: The role of external discipline, 2021, International Economics

Jean-Philippe Platteau's frequent co-authors include:

Françoìs Bourguignon
Catherine Guirkinger
Rinchan Ali Mirza
Adeel Malik
Jean-Marie Baland

Their work often appears in journals such as:

World Development
SSRN Electronic Journal
The Economic Journal
Nature Medicine
International Economics

Jean-Philippe Platteau has also published a book with Cambridge University Press titled Institutional Challenges at the Early Stages of Development in 2023.

The main fields of study reflected in their body of work include:

Social Sciences

Subfields of study contributing to their research profile comprise:

Sociology and Political Science
Safety Research
Development
Economics and Econometrics
Soil Science

Key topics addressed in Jean-Philippe Platteau's research are:

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
International Development and Aid
Family Dynamics and Relationships
Religion, Society, and Development
Economic Growth and Development
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Migration and Labor Dynamics

Best Publications

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

Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

3300
Citations
Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development

Jean-Philippe Platteau

967
Citations
Land Tenure Security and Investment Incentives: Puzzling Evidence from Burkina Faso

Anne-Sophie Brasselle;Frédéric Gaspart;Jean-Philippe Platteau

928
Citations
The Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights as Applied to Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Critical Assessment

Jean-Philippe Platteau

874
Citations
Land relations under unbearable stress: Rwanda caught in the Malthusian trap.

Catherine André;Jean-Philippe Platteau

698
Citations
Monitoring Elite Capture in Community‐Driven Development

Jean-Philippe Platteau

634
Citations
The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management

Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

614
Citations
The Risk of Resource Misappropriation in Community-Driven Development

Jean-Philippe Platteau;Frédéric Gaspart

437
Citations
Behind the market stage where real societies exist ‐ part II: The role of moral norms

Jean‐Philippe Platteau

437
Citations
Access to land and land policy reforms

Alain de Janvry;Elisabeth Sadoulet

354
Citations
Wealth inequality and efficiency in the Commons, part II: the regulated case

Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

343
Citations
Mutual insurance as an elusive concept in traditional rural communities

Jean‐Philippe Platteau

284
Citations
An inquiry into quasi‐credit contracts: The role of reciprocal credit and interlinked deals in small‐scale fishing communities

Jean‐Philippe Platteau;Anita Abraham

279
Citations
Access to land, rural poverty, and public action

Alain De Janvry

255
Citations
Halting degradation of natural resources

Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

242
Citations
Division of the Commons: A Partial Assessment of the New Institutional Economics of Land Rights

Jean-Marie Baland;Jean-Philippe Platteau

206
Citations
WEALTH INEQUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN THE COMMONS PART I: THE UNREGULATED CASE

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163
Citations
The Demand for Microinsurance: A Literature Review

Jean-Philippe Platteau;Ombeline De Bock;Wouter Gelade

162
Citations
The distributive impact of land markets in Uganda

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

122
Citations
Using the Law to Change the Custom

Gani Aldashev;Imane Chaara;Jean-Philippe Platteau;Zaki Wahhaj

120
Citations
Preparing for a responsible lockdown exit strategy.

Marius Gilbert;Mathias Dewatripont;Eric Muraille;Eric Muraille;Jean-Philippe Platteau

115
Citations
The Dynamics of Fisheries Development in Developing Countries: A General Overview

Jean-Philippe Platteau

108
Citations
Religion, politics, and development: Lessons from the lands of Islam

Jean-Philippe Platteau

108
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur

François Bourguignon Paris School of Economics

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré Pantheon-Sorbonne University

Antonio Estache Université Libre de Bruxelles

Stefan Dercon University of Oxford

Stephan Klasen University of Göttingen

Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

Jacques H. Dreze Université Catholique de Louvain

Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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