Jean-Marie Baland
Biographic Data
| ID | 969232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Marie Baland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Baland |
| SIGNATURE | BALAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministerio de Defensa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 378 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Made in Dignity’: The redistributive impact of Fair Trade
Sharing norm, household efficiency and female demand for agency in the Philippines
Child Labor and Schooling Decisions among Self-Help Group Members in Rural India
This paper investigates the impact of informal microfinance groups (self-help groups, or SHGs) on children’s education and work in rural India. In 2002, 24 eligible villages were randomly selected for opening SHGs, and 12 others were randomly selected as a control group. Households were surveyed three times over a 5-year period, allowing for the study of medium-term outcomes. We find a robust and strong increase in secondary school enrollment rat…
Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the insurance motive in fixed roscas
Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Microfinance in India
About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in self-help groups (SHGs). We study the survival of members and groups and their differential access to credit using a census of SHGs created between 1998 and 2006 in 386 villages in eastern India. Households without land and those from disadvantaged castes exhibit higher attrition rates and smaller loans, but the main predictor of differential outcomes is education. Members wi…
The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families
Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending
Pretending to Be Poor: Borrowing to Escape Forced Solidarity in Cameroon
From field observations of credit cooperatives in Cameroon, we find that 19% of the loans taken are fully collateralized by savings held in the same institutions. This behavior is costly to the borrower, as it represents a net interest payment of about 24% per year. While traditional explanations may partly explain this behavior, interviews with members of the cooperatives suggest the following new rationale: members resort to borrowing to signal…
Governance and Development
Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas
Dégradation forestière himalayenne: Quel rôle des pouvoirs publics
Cet article s’intéresse à la dégradation des forêts dans l’Himalaya indien, qui a pour conséquences une érosion des sols spectaculaire et l’enlisement des grands fleuves de la région. Sur la base d’un ensemble d’études de terrains, cet article analyse les causes de ce phénomène et la nécessité d’une intervention publique pour réduire la pression humaine sur les forêts, et principalement celle qui s’exerce à travers la collecte de bois de chauffe.…
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
Many employment relationships concede rents to workers. Depending on the political institutions, the presence of such rents allows employers to use the threat of withdrawing them to control their workers' political behavior, such as their votes in the absence of secret ballot. We examine the effects of the introduction of the secret ballot in Chile in 1958 on voting behavior. Before the reforms, localities with more pervasive patron-client relati…
Enforcement in informal saving groups
Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Does inequality exacerbate environmental problems?Would an equal ization of wealth, social status, and political power contribute to environ mental sustainability?Or is environmental degradation a likely byproduct of efforts to advance the economic, social, and political interests of the less well-off?In this book, we investigate the impact of inequality on envi ronmental sustainability.We focus on local commons as they are essential to the livel…
CHAPTER 2. Collective Action on the Commons: The Role of Inequality
Mortality risks, education and child labor
Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?
This book focuses on the efficient and equitable management of local or village-level natural resources. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides an in-depth analysis on the optimal use of natural resources. It dwells on the “tragedy of the commons”, which attributes inefficient resource use to the absence of well-defined property rights. Non-cooperative game theory is used to examine the impact of human interactions on resource management, …
Rent-seeking and resource booms
The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management
Daily wages and piece rates in agrarian economies
The political economy of underinvestment in agriculture
Coordination problems in local-level resource management
Innovation, monopolies and the poverty trap
Peasants versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development . Raaj K. Sah , Joseph E. Stiglitz
Foodgrain stocks and macrodynamic adjustment mechanisms in a dual semi-industrialized economy
Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?
This book focuses on the efficient and equitable management of local or village-level natural resources. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides an in-depth analysis on the optimal use of natural resources. It dwells on the “tragedy of the commons”, which attributes inefficient resource use to the absence of well-defined property rights. Non-cooperative game theory is used to examine the impact of human interactions on resource management, …
The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management
Rent-seeking and resource booms
Pretending to Be Poor: Borrowing to Escape Forced Solidarity in Cameroon
From field observations of credit cooperatives in Cameroon, we find that 19% of the loans taken are fully collateralized by savings held in the same institutions. This behavior is costly to the borrower, as it represents a net interest payment of about 24% per year. While traditional explanations may partly explain this behavior, interviews with members of the cooperatives suggest the following new rationale: members resort to borrowing to signal…
Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas
The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families
Enforcement in informal saving groups
Coordination problems in local-level resource management
Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Microfinance in India
About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in self-help groups (SHGs). We study the survival of members and groups and their differential access to credit using a census of SHGs created between 1998 and 2006 in 386 villages in eastern India. Households without land and those from disadvantaged castes exhibit higher attrition rates and smaller loans, but the main predictor of differential outcomes is education. Members wi…
Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the insurance motive in fixed roscas
Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending
Mortality risks, education and child labor
Daily wages and piece rates in agrarian economies
Why does asset inequality affect unemployment? A study of the demand composition problem
Child Labor and Schooling Decisions among Self-Help Group Members in Rural India
This paper investigates the impact of informal microfinance groups (self-help groups, or SHGs) on children’s education and work in rural India. In 2002, 24 eligible villages were randomly selected for opening SHGs, and 12 others were randomly selected as a control group. Households were surveyed three times over a 5-year period, allowing for the study of medium-term outcomes. We find a robust and strong increase in secondary school enrollment rat…
Innovation, monopolies and the poverty trap
Are Economists Concerned With Power
While till recently economists were essentially concerned with analysing the (free) play of market forces and their consequences, thus leaving power outside their field of investigation, the same cannot be said of a host of recent contributions based on the concept of strategic rationality. However, the latter approaches still follow an abstract mode of analysis and thereby tend to focus on the mechanisms whereby power is exerted and reproduced a…
Why does asset inequality affect unemployment? A study of the demand composition problem
The wage-goods constraint on a developing economy
Foodgrain stocks and macrodynamic adjustment mechanisms in a dual semi-industrialized economy
Are Economists Concerned With Power
While till recently economists were essentially concerned with analysing the (free) play of market forces and their consequences, thus leaving power outside their field of investigation, the same cannot be said of a host of recent contributions based on the concept of strategic rationality. However, the latter approaches still follow an abstract mode of analysis and thereby tend to focus on the mechanisms whereby power is exerted and reproduced a…
Peasants versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development . Raaj K. Sah , Joseph E. Stiglitz
Innovation, monopolies and the poverty trap
Coordination problems in local-level resource management
The political economy of underinvestment in agriculture
The Ambiguous Impact of Inequality on Local Resource Management
Daily wages and piece rates in agrarian economies
Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?
This book focuses on the efficient and equitable management of local or village-level natural resources. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides an in-depth analysis on the optimal use of natural resources. It dwells on the “tragedy of the commons”, which attributes inefficient resource use to the absence of well-defined property rights. Non-cooperative game theory is used to examine the impact of human interactions on resource management, …
Rent-seeking and resource booms
Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability
Does inequality exacerbate environmental problems?Would an equal ization of wealth, social status, and political power contribute to environ mental sustainability?Or is environmental degradation a likely byproduct of efforts to advance the economic, social, and political interests of the less well-off?In this book, we investigate the impact of inequality on envi ronmental sustainability.We focus on local commons as they are essential to the livel…
CHAPTER 2. Collective Action on the Commons: The Role of Inequality
Mortality risks, education and child labor
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
Many employment relationships concede rents to workers. Depending on the political institutions, the presence of such rents allows employers to use the threat of withdrawing them to control their workers' political behavior, such as their votes in the absence of secret ballot. We examine the effects of the introduction of the secret ballot in Chile in 1958 on voting behavior. Before the reforms, localities with more pervasive patron-client relati…
Enforcement in informal saving groups
Dégradation forestière himalayenne: Quel rôle des pouvoirs publics
Cet article s’intéresse à la dégradation des forêts dans l’Himalaya indien, qui a pour conséquences une érosion des sols spectaculaire et l’enlisement des grands fleuves de la région. Sur la base d’un ensemble d’études de terrains, cet article analyse les causes de ce phénomène et la nécessité d’une intervention publique pour réduire la pression humaine sur les forêts, et principalement celle qui s’exerce à travers la collecte de bois de chauffe.…
Governance and Development
Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas
Pretending to Be Poor: Borrowing to Escape Forced Solidarity in Cameroon
From field observations of credit cooperatives in Cameroon, we find that 19% of the loans taken are fully collateralized by savings held in the same institutions. This behavior is costly to the borrower, as it represents a net interest payment of about 24% per year. While traditional explanations may partly explain this behavior, interviews with members of the cooperatives suggest the following new rationale: members resort to borrowing to signal…
Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending
The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families
Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the insurance motive in fixed roscas
Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Microfinance in India
About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in self-help groups (SHGs). We study the survival of members and groups and their differential access to credit using a census of SHGs created between 1998 and 2006 in 386 villages in eastern India. Households without land and those from disadvantaged castes exhibit higher attrition rates and smaller loans, but the main predictor of differential outcomes is education. Members wi…
Economics (25 works) · Microeconomics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Finance (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works)