Jean-Marie Baland
Contact information
Office : Department of Economics, Faculty of economics, management, political science and communication, 8, Rempart de la Vierge, B5000, Namur, Belgium
Tel : 081724866
Email : jean-marie.baland@unamur.be
Personal Information
Born on the 25 of March 1962, in Mons, Belgium.
Married to Madeleine Toussaint. We have four children : Francois, Marie, Elisabeth and Pol-Emile.
Education
Bachelor in Political Sciences (Candidat en Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Grande Distinction), FUNDP, 1983
Bachelor in Economics (Candidat en Sciences Economiques et Sociales, la Plus Grande Distinction), FUNDP, 1983
Master in Economics (Maitrise en Sciences Economiques et Sociales, option : Analyse Economique, la Plus Grande Distinction), FUNDP, 1985
Phd in Economics (Doctorat en Sciences Economiques et Sociales, sans mention), FUNDP, 1991 : ‘The Wage-Goods Constraint on Industrial Growth in Developing Economies: Dual Economy Models Reconsidered’.
Professional Experience
1985-7 and 1989-91: Research Fellow, National Fund for Scientific Research, Department of Economics, FUNDP, Belgium
1987-9: Civil Service (replacing military obligations)
1991-2: Grant of the National Fund for Scientific Research, Department of Economics, FUNDP, Belgium
1992-9: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, FUNDP, Belgium
1999-2003: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, FUNDP, Belgium
2003-present: Professor of Economics (Professeur Ordinaire), Department of Economics, FUNDP, Belgium
Teaching
Quantitative Methods I (Introductory Mathematics): 1992-95
Quantitative Methods II (Introductory Statistics): 1992-present
Decision under Risk and Uncertainty (Master): 1992-98
Introductory Econometrics: 1992-2001
Intermediate Microeconomics: 1992-2005
Epistemology and History of Economic Thought (seminar): 1992-96, 2006-present
Scientific Readings (seminar): 2001-2005
Population policies and Agricultural Development (Master): 1997-2007
Population, Environment and Governance: 2014-present
Development Economics: Credit Markets (Phd, partim): 1998-2012
Advanced Microeconomics (Phd, partim): 2001
Development Economics (Research master, partim): 1992-96, 2001-present
Research Seminar (Research master): 2006-2007
Development Economics, Introduction: 2012-2019
Environmental Economics, Introduction: 2019-present
Academic Responsibilities
Head of the Department FASEG (Adult Education Program): 1997-2005
Head of the Department of Economics: 2007-2010, 2019-present
Member of the Research Council, FUNDP: 2002-5, 2012-13, 2014-2020
President of the Economics Research Support Council, 2014-2017
General Assembly, FUCID, FUNDP: 1993-2007, Governing Body: 1994-2003
Member of the Doctoral Commission, Louvain Academy: 2011-2014
Director, Doctoral Program in Economics, Namur, 2014-2019
Member of the Promotion Commitee: 2008-9, 2012-2020
Director, Center for Research in Economic Development, 2013-2023
President, DEFIPP Institute, 2017-2020.
Member of the Academic Council, Namur; 2023-4.
Other Appointments
1993: Member of the Expert Team of the EU Phare Program, Policy Advisory Unit, Ministry of Agriculture, Romania.
1996-7: Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Ocotber 1999: Invited Professor, Department of Economics, Bocconi University, Italy
October 2004: Visiting Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, USA.
2004-5: Professeur invite, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
2005-6: Invited Professor, Wheatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
March 2006: Invited Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
March 2010: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University.
2010-11: Invited Scholar, Institute of Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
2012-2018: Professeur Invité, CERDI, Université de Clermont-Ferrand.
October 2012, Invited Professor, Phd School in Development Economics, University of Helsinki.
August 2013 : IGC expert on land reforms, Land commission, Monrovia, Liberia.
November 2013 : Thirlwall visiting research fellow, University of Kent
Awards and Grants
1991 : Prix de la Societe Royale d’Economie Politique
April 2007: Distinguished Fellow Award at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University
March 2008: Chaire Francqui au titre belge, Université Catholique de Louvain.
November 2009: Special Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council
December 2012: Member of the Academia Europea
March 2013: Excellence in Refereing Award 2013, American Economic Review
1991-92: FNRS grant, National Fund for Scientific Research
1995-2006: Research grants from the Mac Arthur Foundation network (150,000 euros)
2002-2012, member the PAI Economic Policy and Finance in the Global Economy: Equilibrium Analysis and Social Evaluation
2001-2006: FUCID grant, ‘Microfinance in India’, (50,000 euros)
2005-8 and 2009-12: Co-promotor, Actions de Recherches Concertées (180,000 and 80,000 euros) joint with Jean-Philippe Platteau
2006, National Bank of Belgium, ‘Microfinance in Benin’, joint with P. Lemay-Boucher and O. Dagnelie (6000 euros)
2008-12: Node leader, Marie Curie fellowship, AMID program (with PSE, LSE Bocconi and Stockholm University) (250,000 euros Namur node)
January 2009-December 2014: Principal investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant (700,000 euros)
January 2010, National Bank of Belgium, ‘An economic analysis of AIDS in Cameroon’, joint with Miron Tequame (5000 euros)
2013-18: Node leader, Marie Curie fellowship, PODER program (with PSE, LSE Bocconi, UPF, U Cape Town and Stockholm University) (250,000 euros Namur node)
2015: FNRS Research project grant (60000 EUR) Roscas as insurance.
2015-2021: Team leader of the RA1 program, EDI-DFID initiative (16000000 £), Core member of the RA4 program.
2018-2022: Node leader, EOS grant (with KULeuven, UCLouvain, UAntwerpen) (500000 euros Namur node)
Fellowships and Editorial Responsibilities
1998-2008: Associate Editor of Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique
2001-present: Associate Editor of the Review of Development Economics
2002-present: Associate Editor of the Journal of African Economies
2002-2008: Associate Editor of the European Economic Review
2006-2008: Associate Editor of the World Bank Economic Review
2010-present: Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics
2013: Guest Editor, ‘Microfinance’ special issue, Journal of Development Economics
2023-present: Associate Editor of the Revue d’Economie du Développement
1991-present: Member of the American Economic Association and of the European Economic Association
1995-2006: Member of the Mac Arthur Research Network Inequality and Economic Performance
2002-present: Member of the European Union Development Network (EUDN), Board member since 2015.
2002-present: Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), (2012-2022, member of the Board of Directors)
2004-present: Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (Public Policy, Development Economics)
2004-2008: Invited Member, CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve
2005-2018: Resource Faculty member, South Asian Network for Development Economics and the Environment (SANDEE)
2006-2013: member, commission Economie, NFWO (National Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders)
Since 2007: Board and Founding member, THRED (Theoretical Research in Development Economics)
2012-2015: Member of the Scientific Council, ARQADE, Toulouse School of Economics
Since 2013: Member of the BioEcon network.
June 2013, June 2015, June 2017: Jury member, Consolidator Grant committee, ERC
November 2013: Jury member, Research Directors committee, INRA
2014: member, scientific commission FRESH, FNRS.
2023- : member, scientific commission economics, FNRS
International Scientic committees: BREAD/CEPR 2006; THRED 2007, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024; BioEcon 2014; EEA 2015, 2017, 2018.
Over the recent years, I was active as a referee for the National Science Foundation, as well as for the following journals: American Economic Review Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, Journal of Development Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Economica, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Studies, Environment and Development Economics, World Development, Review of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Bank Economic Review.
Development Economics
Publications in Refereed Journals
1. With Bequet, L., Guirkinger, C., et Manuel, C. ‘Sharing norm, household efficiency and female demand for agency in the Philippines’, 2024, World Development, 174, 106463.
2. with Guilhem Cassan and Francois Woitrin, ‘Avortements Sélectifs, Naissances Instrumentales et la Règle d’arrêt Selective’, 2023, Revue d’Economie du Développement
3. with Guilhem Cassan and Benoit Decerf, ‘Too young to die: Deprivation measures combining poverty and premature mortality’, American Economic Journal: Applied, 13(4), 226-57, 2021, CEPR WP.
4. with Timothée Demont and Rohini Somanathan, ‘Child Labor and Schooling Decisions among Self-Help Groups Members in Rural India’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, pp 73-105, 2020.
5. with Catherine Guirkinger and Renate Hartwig, ‘Now or later? The allocation of the pot and the insurance motive in fixed roscas”, Journal of Development Economics, vol 140, pages 1-11, 2019
6. with Rohini Somanathan and Lore Vandewalle, ‘Socially disadvantaged groups and microfinance in India’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol 67 (3), 537-569, 2019
7. with Latta Gangadaran, Pushkar Maitra and Rohini Somanathan: ‘Repayment and Exclusion in a Microfinance Experiment’, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2017, vol. 137, pages 176-190.
8. with Isabelle Bonjean, Catherine Guirkinger and Roberta Ziparo: ‘The economic consequences of mutual help in extended families’, Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 38-56.
9. with Rohini Somanathan and Zaki Wahhaj: ‘Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending’, Journal of Development Economics, 2013, vol. 105, 131-9; CEPR WP6520 and BREAD WP.
10. with Jim Robinson: ‘The political value of land: political reforms and land prices in Chile’, American Journal of Political Science, 2012, vol 56(3), 601-619; CEPR WP.
11. with Catherine Guirkinger and Charlotte Mali: ‘Pretending to be poor: borrowing to escape forced solidarity in credit cooperatives in Cameroon’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, vol. 60(1), 1-16.
12. with Cedric Duprez: ‘Are labels effective against child labor?’, Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93, 1125-30; CEPR WP4542 and BREAD WP.
13. with Siwan Anderson and Karl-Ove Moene, 'Sustainability and organizational design in informal groups, with some evidence from Kenyan Roscas', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 90(1), 14-23; BREAD WP.
14. with Jim Robinson, ‘Land and Power, theory and evidence from Chile’, American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (5), 1737-66 (lead article); BREAD WP.
15. with Rohini Somanathan and Lore Vandewalle: ‘Microfinance lifespans: a study of attrition and exclusion in Self-Help Groups in India’, India Policy Forum, 2007, Vol. 4(1), pp 159-210.
16. with F. Gaspart , J.-P. Platteau and F. Place: ' The distributive impact of land markets in Uganda ', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, Vol. 55/2, pp 283-311
17. with F. Estevan: 'Mortality risks, education and child labor’, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 84, Issue 1, September 2007, Pages 118-13; CEPR WP4262 and BREAD WP.
18. with S. Anderson: 'The Economics of Roscas and intra-household resource allocation', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117(3), August 2002, pp 963-95.
19. with J. Robinson: 'Rotten parents', Journal of Public Economics, 2002, 84(3), 341-56.
20. with J. Robinson : 'Is child labour inefficient?', Journal of Political Economy, 2000 , 108(4), 663-79 (lead article).
21. with P. Francois: 'Investment Coordination and Demand Complementarities', Economic Theory, 1999, Vol. 13 No. 2, 495-505.
22. with J. Drèze and L. Leruth: 'Daily Wages and Piece Rates in Agrarian Economies', Journal of Development Economics, 1999, 59, 445-61.
23. with A. Kotwal: 'The Political Economy of Under-investment in Agriculture', Journal of Development Economics, 1998, 55, 233-47.
24. with P. Francois: 'Innovation, Monopolies and the Poverty Trap', Journal of Development Economics, 1996, Vol 49, n. 1, 151-78.
25. 'The Economics of price scissors : a defence of Preobrazhensky', European Economic Review, 1993, 37, 37-60
26. 'Foodgrain stocks and macrodynamic adjustement mechanisms in a dual semi-industrialized economy', Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 40, 171-185.
27. 'The wage-goods constraint on a developing economy: a critical appraisal of Dutta's model (1988)', Journal of Development Economics, 1992, 37, 387-9.
28. with D. Ray: 'Why does asset inequality affect unemployment ? A study of the demand composition problem', Journal of Development Economics, 1991, 35, 69-92.
29. 'Social disarticulation models : an analytical critique and a reexposition', Journal of Development Studies, 1989, 25, 4 , 521-36.
Books and Chapters in Books
Co-editor with Francois Bourguignon, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Thierry Verdier, ‘Introduction’, in JM Baland, Francois Bourguignon, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Thierry Verdier (eds) ‘Economic Development and Institutions’, Princeton University Press, 2020.
With Roberta Ziparo: ‘Intra-household Bargaining in Poor Countries’, in Towards Gender Equity in Development, ed. by by Siwan Anderson, Lori Beaman and Jean-Philippe Platteau, WIDER, OUP, chapter 3, 2018.
with K. Moene and J. Robinson, ‘Governance and Development’, in D. Rodrik and M. Rosenzweig (eds), The Handbook of Development Economics Volume 5, Elsevier, North-Holland, Chapter 69, pp. 4597-4656, 2011.
with Jim Robinson: 'How does vote buying shape the economy' in Vote Buying: Who, What, When, and How? edited by Frederic Charles Schaffer and Andreas Schedler, chapter 8, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006.
with J.-P. Platteau: 'Impartible inheritance versus equal division : a comparative perspective centered on Europe and Subsaharan Africa' in Access to Land, Rural Poverty and Public Action, ed. by A. de Janvry, G. Gordillo, J.P. Platteau and E. Sadoulet, WIDER, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Environment and collective action
Publications in Refereed Journals
with Delbart, N., et Libois, F. ‘Régénération des forêts au Népal: le rôle moteur de la gestion participative’. Revue d'économie du développement, 35(3), 103-108, 2023.
with Bishal Bharadwaj and Mani Nepal, ‘What makes a ban on plastic bags effective? The case of Nepal’, Environment and Development Economics, Vol 25 (2), pp. 95 – 114, 2020.
with Francois Libois and Dilip Mookherjee: ‘Forest Degradation and Economic Growth in Nepal 2003-2010’, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 5(2), pages 401-439, 2018
With Asha Gunawardena: ‘Targeting Disaster Aid in post-Tsunami Sri Lanka’, Development Policy Review, 2015, 0 (0): 1-17
with Kjetil Bjorvatn: ‘The distributive impact of privatization of common property in a dynamic perspective’, Environment and Development Economics, 2013, 1-17.
with P. Bardhan, S. Das, and D. Mookherjee: ‘Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas’, World Development, 2010, vol. 38(11), 1642-56.
with P. Bardhan, S. Das, D. Mookherjee and R. Sarkar: 'The environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from firewood collection in Rural Nepal', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, vol. 59(1), pages 23-61.
with O. Dagnelie and D. Ray: 'Inequality and inefficiency in joint projects', Economic Journal, 2007, Volume 117, Issue 522, pp 922-35
with Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar: ‘Managing the environmental consequences of growth: forest degradation in the Indian Mid-Himalayas’, Indian Policy Forum, 2006, Vol 3(1), pp215-266.
with P. Francois: 'Commons as Insurance and the welfare impact of privatization', Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, 211-31.
with P. Francois: 'Rent seeking and Resource booms', Journal of Development Economics, 2000, 61, 527-42.
with J.-P. Platteau: 'The ambiguous impact of inequality on local resource management', World Development, 1999, 27, 5, 773-88.
with J.-P. Platteau: 'Wealth inequality and efficiency on the Commons, Part II : the Regulated case', Oxford Economic Papers, 1998, 50, 1-22.
with J.-P. Platteau : 'Division of the commons : a partial assessment of the new institutional economics of land rights', American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998 , 80, 2, 204-10.
with J.-P. Platteau, 'Coordination Problems in Resource Conservation Programs', Journal of Development Economics, 1997, 53, 197-210.
with J.-P. Platteau: 'Wealth inequality and efficiency on the Commons, Part I : the Unregulated case', Oxford Economic Papers, 1997, 49, 451-82.
Books and Chapters in Books
with Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee: ‘Forest Degradation in the Himalayas: Determinants and Policy Options’, Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta, Oxford University Press, Chapter 9, 2014.
Co-Editor with P. Bardhan and S. Bowles: 'Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability', Princeton University Press, 2006.
with Jean-Philippe Platteau: 'Collective action and the commons: the role of inequality', in J.M. Baland, P. Bardhan and S. Bowles (eds) 'Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability' Princeton University Press, 2006.
with P. Bardhan, S. Das, D. Mookherjee and R. Sarkar: 'Inequality, collective action and the environment: evidence from firewood collection in Nepal', in J.M. Baland, P. Bardhan and S. Bowles (eds) 'Inequality, Cooperation and Environmental Sustainability', Princeton University Press, 2006.
Baland J.M.: 'Inequality and collective action on the commons', in: "Environment, Inequalities and Collective Action", edited by Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini and Alessandro Vercelli, Routledge Inc., 2006.
with J.-P. Platteau : 'Economics of common property management regimes', K. G. Mahler and J. Vincent, eds, Handbook of Environmental Economics , Elsevier, North Holland, Chapter 4, pp 129-90, 2003.
with J.-P. Platteau: Halting Degradation of Natural Resources. Is there a Role for Rural Communities?, Oxford University Press, 1996.
with J.-P. Platteau: 'Should Common Property Resources be privatized? A re-examination of the Tragedy of the Commons', in P. Terhal ad G. De Vries (eds), Development, Transformation and State Policy, Silver Jubilee Volume, Centre for Development Planning, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Delhi: Manohar Pub, 1995.
Ongoing Research Projects
With Benoit Decerf and Guilhem Cassan: Integrating mortality into poverty measurement through the Poverty Adjusted Life Expectancy index
With Guilhem Cassan and Francois Woitrin: Gender difference in child mortality and sibling competition: a South Asian perspective.
With Guilhem Cassan and Francois Woitrin: Stopping rule as sex-selective abortions and instrumental births. A unified framework and world evidence
with Francois Libois, Nicolas Delbart and Subrendhu Pattanayak: Community Forest Management: Unveiling the Success Story of Nepal.
With Catherine Guikinger, Marie Boltz, Anna Jolivet and Roberta Ziparo: ‘Household Bargaining and Delegation, with an application.
With Francois Woitrin, Cedric Duprez and Wouter Gelade: ‘Made in Dignity’: the redistributive impact of Fair Trade.
With Catherine Guirkinger and Perrin Lefevre: Female empowerment and Domestic violence: Theory and evidence from Mexico.
With Francois Libois and Jeffrey Vincent: Proper weigting rules in environmental economics: an example from Nepal.
With Giorgio Ferroni: Do market forces erode moral actions? Re-visiting Dewatripont and Tirole (2024)
Other publications and unpublished papers
with Gani Aldashev: ‘AIDS, awareness and prevention: a political economy perspective’, CRED working paper, CEPR working paper, 2015.
with Kaivan Munshi, 2015: ‘Introduction’, Microfinance Special Issue, Journal of Development Economics.
With E. Somanathan, J. Krishnaswamy and F. Libois, The impact of the Forest Rights Act 2006 on deforestation, tribal welfare and povery, IGC working paper, april 2013.
with Jean-Philippe Platteau, ‘Compensations and Customary Rights in the context of Concessionaire companies: an Economic Approach’, IGC Report, Liberia, 2013.
‘Dégradations Forestières Himalayennes: le rôle des pouvoirs publics’, in Afrique contemporaine, 2009, N° 229, 43-70
‘Roscas’ in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by General Editors, Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf, 2008.
Co-editor with V. Bodart : 'Pourquoi la modélisation en sciences économiques ?', in Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique, De Boeck, 2003.
with P. Van Kerm and S. Labenne: Exercice de Microéconomie, French Translation of Hal R. Varian and T. Bergstrom: Workouts in intermediate microeconomics, De Boeck Universite, 2000.
‘A Review of S. A. Vosti and T. Reardon, eds. (1997): Sustainability, Growth and Poverty Alleviation’, Journal of Development Economics, 1999, 59, 573-5.
with J.-P. Platteau and A. Abraham : 'Groupes informels de solidarite dans un bidonville du Tiers-Monde : le cas de Kibera, Nairobi', Non-Marchand , 1998, 2, 29-52 and Revue Sénégalaise de Sociologie, 2000, N° 4-5, pp. 263-294.
with P. Francois: 'Investment Uncertainty as a cause of Coordination Failure’, University of Namur, working paper, 1998.
with J.-P. Platteau: 'Income sharing through work-spreading arrangements : an economic analysis with special reference to small-scale fisheries', Cahiers de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales de Namur, 1989, 91, 45 p, reprinted as Population Pressure and management of natural resources, FAO Economic and social development paper 139, Roma, 1996.
with J.-P. Platteau : 'Les investissements extérieurs dans la pêche artisanale: imperfections de marché et rôle des associations informelles', in Le rôle de la femme dans le développement rural, Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-mer, Bruxelles, 1995.
‘A review of Raj K. Sah and J. Stiglitz : Peasants versus City-dwellers : Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 1995, 43, 3, 681-5.
with A. Kotwal: 'L'économie politique du sous-investissement public dans les économies en développement’, in "Croissance, répartition, environnement: Quelles régulations pour un développement durable?", 11th Congress of the French-Speaking Belgian Economists, CIFOP, Charleroi, 1994.
with J.-P. Platteau, 1993, 'Are Economists concerned with Power', IDS Bulletin, 1993, 24, 3, 12-20.
‘The Wage-Goods Constraint on Industrial Growth in Developing Economies: Dual Economy Models Reconsidered’, unpublished Phd thesis, University of Namur, 1991, 185 p.
'Intersectoral capital flows in a labour surplus economy : an extension of the Fei and Ranis model', Cahiers de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales de Namur,1989 , 95, 25 p.
'On the demand aspects of the Fei and Ranis model (1966)', Cahiers de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales de Namur,1987, 73, 24 p.
'Income distribution and sectoral growth patterns : the conditions of social disarticulation', Cahiers de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales de Namur, 1987, 75, 14 p.
Keynote lectures
May 2023, EUDN Summer School, Stockhom
June 2022, 1st Conference of the Association Francaise d’Economie du Developpement, CERDI Clermont Ferrand
June 2017, Summer School of the Italian Development Economics Association, Prato: The (in)-efficiency of intra-household bargaining in poor countries
September 2016, Development Conference, CERDI, Clermont Ferrand: The (in)-efficiency of intra-household bargaining in poor countries
June 2014, Transformative land and Water Governance Conference, Malaybalai, Philippines,‘Forest degradation in the Himalayas’.
November 2013, Aix-Marseilles School of Economics Globalization Lecture, ‘Family pressures and economic incentives in Cameroon’.
September 2013, Bari 4th international Conference on Economics of Global Interactions, ‘Family pressures and economic incentives in Cameroon’,
May 2013, CORE Louvain-la-Neuve, ESL Phd Workshop, ‘Family pressures and economic incentives in Cameroon’.
October 2012, Toulouse School of Economics, EUDN Phd workshop, ‘Family pressures and economic incentives in Cameroon’.
September 2012, Kiel Summer School Equity and Efficiency in Fisheries, Keynote Lecture, ‘Forest degradation in the Himalayas’.
September 2012, Cambridge UK, King’s College, BIOECON keynote, ‘Forest degradation in the Himalayas’.
June 2012, ESNIE Summer School, Cargese, ‘The distributive implications of group lending’.
June 2010, ‘The distributive implications of group lending’, EUDN summer school, Keynote lecture, University of Clermont-Ferrand.
April 2010: ‘Forests Degradation in the Himalayas’, Keynote lecture, University of Bologna (Forli)
March 2008, Catholic University of Louvain, Conference inaugurale de la Chaire Francqui: ‘Land and Power’.
April 2007: Distinguished Fellow Award at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, Guest lecture : ‘Land and Power’
June 2002, 'Collective action and the commons: the role of inequality', Sienna PHD summer school on "Environment, Inequalities and Collective Action"
Invited Seminars
2025: Universite d’Aix Marseilles; 2024: Université de Fribourg; 2023: Paris Sorbonne Maison des Sciences Economiques; 2018: UAuvergne ; 2016: UAuvergne CERDI ; 2015 : U Southampton; ScPos Paris; UAuvergne CERDI; African School of Economics Cotonou; SANDEE Sri Lanka ; 2014 : Berlin; CSAE Oxford; UAuvergne CERDI ; 2013 : Kent U, Delhi School of Economics, Munich U, Passau U, Frankfurt U, Graduate Institute Geneva, Gothenburg, CMI Bergen, U Auvergne CERDI: 2012: NHH Bergen, U Auvergne CERDI; 2011, Economics Duke U, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke U, Ottawa U, U of Columbia, LSE London; 2010: Boston U; 2009: Bocconi, LSE, Delhi School of Economics; 2008: University of Paris 1, ISI Delhi, Toulouse U, EHESS Paris; 2007: Michelsen Institute Bergen; Brunel U; 2006: U Oslo, Boston U, Stanford U, UC Berkeley, 2005: Harvard U, Aix Marseilles, IIES Stockholm, CORE Louvain, 2004: U East Anglia Norwich; 2004: Warwick, Ann Arbor; UCLouvain, CIRPEE Montreal; 2003: Dpt Economics Oxford, SITE Stanford, UCLondon; 2002: Delta Paris, Toulouse, ZEF Bonn, UAntwerpen; 2001: Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam; 2000: Boston U, Bocconi; 1999: UC Berkely, ECARES Bruxelles, CERGE Prague, Melbourne, Toulouse, Oslo, Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, 1997: INSEE Paris; 1996: U Amherst; 1995: UC Berkeley; 1988: ISI Delhi, Delhi School of Economics, 1987: CDS Trivandrum.
Conferences
2024: GOLFOR conference on Forestry in Nepal, ICIMOD; 2022: Workshop TREE-UPPA Universite de Bayonne; 2020: African School of Economics, Benin; 2019: Bordeaux conference on Household economics; 2018: EUDN Bergen, NoPoor Bruxelles; 2015: EUDN Oslo; 2012: Thred CIDE Mexico; 2011, Christmas meeting of the Belgian Economists Louvain; Twelfth Annual Global Development Conference, Universidad de los Andes; 2010: SANDEE 10th anniversary conference, Kathmandu; EUDN Paris, THRED Paris, ESOP Conference Oslo, Economic Science Association Conference Melbourne; 2009: Growth and Development Conference ISI Delhi; North Eastern Universities Development Conference; Microfinance and Entrepreneurship conference Oxford; World Social Science Forum, Bergen; Global Development Network Kuwait; 2008: LACEA Rio de Janeiro; EUDN Paris; 2007: AIID conference Aids Amsterdam; EUDN Paris, 2006: Conference in Development Ecomics Harvard; Conference on Inequality and the environment, Los Andes Bogota; Normative approaches to Liberalization conference, Centre de Sciences Humaines Delhi; 2005: EUDN Paris, Conference in Development Economics UCLouvain, BREAD CEPR Istanbul; CEPR Paris; Association Francaise des Sciences Economiques Clermont Ferrant; 2004: Mac Arthur network Rio de Janeiro; Political Economy conference ECARES Bruxelles; Aupelf Uref Marrakech; 2003: Mac Arthur MIT, BREAD Washington; 2002: IEA Lisbon; CSAE conference Oxford; EEA Venice; 2001: Aupelf Uref Montreal, Santa Fe Institute, 2000: Mac Arthur MIT, 1999: IEA Buenos Aires; 1998: Conference on Decentralization, Ministry of Finance, Calcutta; 1997: Mac Arthur Boston, Mac Arthur Boston, 1995: IEA Tunis; EEA Prague, Workshop in Applied Development Economics Delhi School of Economics; Aupelf Uref Rabat; 1994: French-speaking Belgian Economists, U of Louvain; Western Economic Association, Vancouver; 1993: EAERE Fontainebleau; 1992: French-speaking Belgian Economists, Mons; 1991: EEA Cambridge; 1987: Indian School of Political Economy Lonavla (Pune).
Major Scientific Stays
AMSE Aix Marseilles, May-June 2017 and 2018
Delhi School of Economics, January 2013, September 2013
Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University, August 2010-August 2011
Department of Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, February 2010
Delhi School of Economics, August 2009, August 2008
Department of Economics, University of Oslo: November 2006, April 2000
Institute of Development Economics, Boston University, Boston: October 2006, January 2006, April 2004, October 2000, May 1997, October 1996
Wheatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University: August 2005-July 2006
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi: November 2004, January 2004, September 2003, October 2000, May 2000, December 1999, September 1987-March 1988
William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: October 2004
Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota: November 2003
Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: October 2003, July 2003, October 2002, October 1994, November-December 1993, March 1992
Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley: November 2002, September-October 2001, November 2000, November 1999
Department of Economics, CenteR, KUB, Tillburg: April 2000
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne: June 1999
Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles: October 1998
International Centre for Research in Agro-Forestry and Department of Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya: September 1996-July 1997
Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada: May 1997, October 1996, October 1995
Department of Economics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK: June 1993
Department of Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain: June 1988
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Visva Bharati, West-Bengal, India: September 1984-January 1985
Thesis supervision (and first affiliation)
Erika Seki (co-director), 2000, An Economic analysis of fishermen communities in Japan, assistant professor, University of Aberdeen Business School.
Olivier Dagnelie, 2007, Inequality and Local Provision of Public Goods, post doctoral fellow at the Department of Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
Philippe Lemay-Boucher, 2007, Informal Insurance Networks in Africa, assistant professor, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics, University of Edinburgh
Fernanda Estevan (co-director, UCL), 2009, Child Labour and Child Education, assistant professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa
Cedric Duprez , 2009, Social Labelling and International Trade, Research department, National Bank of Belgium
Michel Tenikue, 2009, Gender Discrimination and Education in West Africa, SEPS, Luxembourg
Giacomo DeLucca, 2009, Essays in Political Economy and Development, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Economics, KU Leuven.
Lore Vandewalle, 2011, Microfinance in India, assistant professor, IHEI, Geneva.
Timothee Demont (co-supervision), 2012, Financial Intermediation in poor rural economies, post-doctoral fellow, University of Clermont-Ferrand.
Bastien Chabé-Ferret (co-supervision UCL), 2013, Three essays on the fertility of Minority Groups, post-doctoral fellow, Paris School of Economics.
Miron Tequame, 2013, The Social determinants of the Aids epidemics in Africa.
Roberta Ziparo, 2013, Household bargaining and intra-household solidarity, AXXA post-doctoral fellow, Paris School of Economics.
Francois Libois, 2015, Deforestation and collective action, Post doctoral fellow, INRA-Paris School of Economics
Wouter Gelade (co-supervision), 2016, ‘Informal insurance networks in developing economies’, Federal government, Belgium.
Ludovic Bequet, 2021, ‘Essays on agricultural productivity and intrahousehold dynamics in the Philippines’, Invited lecturer, University of Namur, Consultant World Bank.
Clarice Manuel, 2023, ‘Female Empowerment in Asia’, financial manager, DUSS Bruxelles.
Francois Woitrin, 2023, ‘Essays in Development Economics’, lecturer, University of Namur.
Andrea Renk, 2023, ‘Essays in Development Economics’, analyst at Safe Brussels
Quentin Richard (co-supervision)
Thesis committees
University of Namur:
Bertrand Verheyden, 2008, Petros Sekeris, 2009; Tatiana Goethgebuer, 2011; Imane Chaara, 2012, Ombeline de Bock, 2014, Isabelle Bonjean, 2014, Joaquim Morales, 2015, Elena Serfilippi, 2016; Nicolas Gonne, 2016, Astrid Simillon, 2017; Olivier Hubert, 2018, Helene Laurent, 2018; Jeremie Gross, 2018; Jolan Mohimont, 2018, Anne Michels 2019, Francoise Delmez, 2019, Modeste Daye, 2020; Luca Fare, 2023; Doux Baraka, 2024; Pablo Alvarez Aragon, 2025.
In other universities:
Celine Dutilly Diane, 2001, University of Clermont Ferrand; Squalli Drisse, 2002, Department of Agricultural Econ., Catholic University of Louvain; Pierre-Emmanuel Couralet, 2002, Delta, Paris; Ingela Terstrom, 2002, Stockholm School of Economics (opponent); Eugenio Proto, 2004, Department of Economics, Free University of Bruxelles; Tessa Bold, 2007, Oxford University; Pierre Ly, 2007, University of Toulouse; Jibirila Leonyuy, 2008, University of Toulouse; Elise Huillery, 2008, Paris School of Economics; Thomas Markussen, 2009, University of Copenhagen; Stephane Straub, 2010, HDR, Department of Economics, Toulouse; Paolo Casini, 2010, Department of Economics, Free University of Bruxelles; Blanca Zulualega, 2010, Department of Economics, KU Leuven; Stefanie Sieber, 2011, London School of Economics; Karine Landry, 2011, Department of Economics, Université de Liège; Guilhem Cassan, 2011, Paris School of Economics; Ashokankur Datta, 2012, Indian Statistical Institute; Melanie Lefevre, 2012, Department of Economics, Université de Liège; Miriam Sinn, 2012, London School of Economics; Outi Korkeala, 2012, Department of Economics, University of Sussex; Antoine Leblois, 2012, CIRED, Nogent-sur-Marne; Maria Cheung, 2013, Stockholm University (opponent); Kanupriya Gupta, 2013, Delhi School of Economics. Julien Labonne, 2013, Oxford University.
Omar Sene, 2013, Université Paris 1- Sorbonne ; Nazia Mansoor, 2013, University of Kent; Margherita Comola, 2014, HDR, Paris School of Economics, Paris 1; Kenneth Houngbedji, 2015, Paris School of Economics; Marie Boltz-Lemmel, 2015, Paris School of Economics; Mequanint Biset Melesse, 2015, Wageningen University; Kartika Bathia, 2015, Toulouse School of Economics; Mahreen Mahmud, 2015, University of Kent; Sebastien Desbureaux, 2016, CERDI; Hemanshu Kumar, 2016, Delhi University; Marine de Talance, 2017, Paris Dauphine; Kelbesa Megersa, 2017, University of Antwerp/University of Namur; Aditi Dimri, 2017, University of Louvain/Paris School of Economics; Andras Gregor, 2018, University of Louvain; Victor Pouliquen, 2019, Paris School of Economics; Marcos Diaz Ramirez, 2020, Sc Pos, Paris; Jordan Loper, 2020, AMSE, Marseilles; Hughes Champeaux, CERDI, 2021; Nicolas Berman HDR, AMSE, 2021; Louis Olié, Bordeaux, 2021; Jeanne de Montalembert, Paris-Dauphine, 2025; Laura Peralta, Strasbourg, 2025.