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Student and worker mobility under university and government competition

Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: Journal of Public Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 26-41

We provide a normative analysis of endogenous student and worker mobility in the presence of diverging interests between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a...

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Remittances, savings and return migration under uncertainty

Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-43

Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty. In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving...

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Is informal risk-sharing less effective for the poor? : Risk externalities and moral hazard in mutual insurance

Delpierre, Matthieu - In: Journal of development economics 118 (2016), pp. 282-297

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The impact of liquidity constraints and imperfect commitment on migration decisions of offspring of rural households

Delpierre, Matthieu - In: Review of Economics of the Household 10 (2012) 1, pp. 153-170

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Farm Input Use in a Context of Liquidity Constraints and Contract Unenforceability

Delpierre, Matthieu - In: Journal of African Economies 18 (2009) 3, pp. 496-528

The African cash crop sector has witnessed widespread liberalisation reforms aimed at strengthening price incentives to farmers. However, some areas are confronted with a decline in input use. We have recourse to a two-stage Cournot game to account for the issue. In a context of credit rationing...

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Risk as impediment to privatization? : the role of collective fields in extended agricultural households

Delpierre, Matthieu; Guirkinger, Catherine; Platteau, … - 2017

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Birth Order and Schooling: Theory and Evidence from Twelve Sub-Saharan Countries

Tenikue, Michel; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: Journal of African Economies 19 (2010) 4, pp. 459-495

This paper examines the impact of birth order on the discrimination between siblings in terms of schooling and child labour. Our dynamic model shows how birth order interacts with current and future consumption and highlights the crucial role of household wealth. Whereas in poor families...

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Togetherness in the household

Cosaert, Sam; Theloudis, Alexandros; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: American economic journal 15 (2023) 1, pp. 529-579

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CESifo Conference in Law and Economics : Munich, May 2010

Deffains, Bruno (contributor) - CESifo GmbH - 2011

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Designing the new European Union

Berger, Helge (contributor); Moutos, Thomas (contributor) - 2007 - 1st ed

This volume is based on papers delivered at the second CESifo-Delphi Conferences (Munich, November 2003, and Delphi …, June 2004), which are jointly organized by CESifo and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the … Athens University of Economics and Business. The CESifo-Delphi Conferences are organized every two years and involve a two …

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