Auteur Jean-Louis Arcand
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Jean-Louis Arcand, Auteur ; Linguère M'Baye, Auteur | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2011Illegal immigration from the developing world to rich countries is one of the most controversial topics today. Using a unique data set on potential illegal migrants collected in Dakar, Senegal, we characterize the preferences and characteristics[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand, Auteur ; Linguère Mously Mbaye, Auteur | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2013This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand ; Adama Bah ; Julien Labonne | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2010In this paper, we present a rent-seeking model of conflict, which highlights the role of ideology in determining whether the government or the rebels take the initiative. We use the model to interpret the impact of a large-scale Community-Driven[...]
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Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural land. W[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand ; Patrick Guillaumont ; Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2005Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural land. W[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand, Auteur ; Léandre Bassole, Auteur | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2006Community Driven Development (CDD) programs are an extremely important component of the World Bank's portfolio in the developing world, representing close to $7 billion in 2003, yet solid empirical evidence on their impact is relatively scarce, [...]
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Susana Carpio, Auteur ; Jean-Louis Arcand, Directeur de thèse | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | 2014-09-26EN: The purpose of this thesis is to empirically assess, through the use of novel and econometrically robust approaches, the drivers of school attendance, the role of informality in school dropout, and the linkages between youth work and product[...]
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Rania Ben Hamida, Auteur ; Jean-Louis Arcand, Directeur de thèse ; Sami Hammami, Directeur de thèse | Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I | 2014-11-05EN: This thesis has a dual purpose; it focused on the one hand on the role of energy in the industrial and economic development of the country and on the other hand on the impact of its use on the environment and health status of individuals. We[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand ; Marcel Dagenais | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2005We examine cross-sectional empirical evidence on the determinants of economic growth in light of an instrumental variables estimator, based on sample moments of order higher than two, which does not require extraneous instruments and which remai[...]
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Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Auteur ; Jean-Louis Arcand, Directeur de thèse | Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I | 2010-12-20This dissertation investigates the relationships between institutional quality, fiscal decentralization and ethnic conflict. We especially endorse the idea that taking into account institutions helps understanding the incidence of ethnic conflic[...]
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Frédéric Aubery, Auteur ; Jean-Louis Arcand, Auteur | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | 2014-09-26EN: This thesis contributes to the literatures on food consumption, child malnutrition and school achievement in developing countries. The first chapter aims at estimating the causal relationship between malnutrition and school achievement among[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand ; Daniela Borodak | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2006This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain productivity differentials in Moldovan agriculture. We compute non-parametric measures of technical efficiency for a sample o[...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand, Auteur ; Patrick Guillaumont, Auteur ; Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney, Auteur |Cet article fait apparaître empiriquement qu’en Afrique au sud du Sahara les dépréciations réelles de la monnaie sont polluantes en termes d’émission de CO2 et que cet effet s’estompe avec une augmentation du revenu par tête. Ces résultats sont [...]
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Jean-Louis Arcand ; Marcel Fafchamps | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi) | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957 | 2006Using a rich dataset from West Africa we study the determinants of membership in rural producer organizations (RPO). We ...nd that on average it is the more fortunate members of rural society who belong in RPOs. In Senegal, the dominant criteria[...]
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We formalize the link between optimal cost-sharing contracts and the production technology in the presence of moral hazard by appealing to several well-known results from duality theory. Building on intuitions from the interlinkage literature, w[...]
