Development micro

Explaining Productivity Differentials in Eastern European Agriculture: Efficiency or Class Structure ?
This paper considers whether it is differences in technical efficiency or differences in factor endowments that explain productivity …
Daniela Borodak, Jean-Louis Arcand
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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil
The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Béatrice d'Hombres
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Rendement de l'éducation et choix des instruments. Application sur données vietnamiennes
This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using VLSS data, we explore …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Béatrice d'Hombres, Paul Gyselinck
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Racial Discrimination in the Brazilian Labour Market: Wage, Employment and Segregation Effects
The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Béatrice d'Hombres
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Instrument Choice and the Returns to Education: New Evidence from Vietnam
This paper focuses on instrument choice while consistently estimating the returns to education in Vietnam. Using data culled from the 2 …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Béatrice d'Hombres, Paul Gyselinck
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Is Adverse Selection Relevant? Spence-Mirlees Meets the Tunisian Peasant
In the standard problem of mechanism design under adverse selection, it is well known that the transfer function from the principal to …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Mbolatiana de Montalembert Rambonilaza
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Class position and Economic Behavior in a Tunisian Village: Selective Separability in a Multi-Factor Household Model
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we examine, using a unique dataset collected in the Tunisian village of El Oulja, what …
Jean-Louis Arcand, Jonathan Conning, François Éthier
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Inefficacité marshallienne, partage de coûts et modèles contractuels avec marchés manquants
When moral hazard concerns are present, standard contract theory predicts the "Marshallian inefficiency" of sharecropping …
Chunrong Ai, Jean-Louis Arcand, François Éthier
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