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Working Papers

2012

1. Foreign Direct Investments in Africa's Farmlands: Threat or Opportunity for Local Populations?
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (5)
2. The Global Fight against Child Trafficking: How Can It Be Won ?
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE
3. The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
4. The Political Economy of Social Inclusion
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE

2010

5. Are Foster Children Made Better Off by Informal Fostering Arrangements?
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (4)
6. Is Temporary Emigration of Unskilled Workers a Solution to the Child Labor Problem?
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE
7. The Economic Foundations of Institutional Stagnation in Commodity-Exporting Countries
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE

2009

8. Immigration Policy, Remittances, and Growth in the Migrant-Sending Country
   Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (4)

2007

9. Why Is Child Labor Illegal?
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
   Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2001) View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article Why is child labor illegal?, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2008) View citations (16) (2008)

2006

10. Democratic Voting and Social Exclusion
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE
11. Microfinance and Female Empowerment
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (3)
12. Understanding the Persistent Low Performance of African Agriculture
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE

2005

13. Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (1)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2005) View citations (1)
14. On the Mechanics of Trade-Induced Structural Transformation
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article On the mechanics of trade-induced structural transformation, Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier (2010) View citations (2) (2010)
15. The Economics of Child Trafficking (Part II)
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (5)

2003

16. Endogenous Technical Progress and the Emergence of Child Labor Laws
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2003)
17. Gender Discrimination, Human Capital, and Marriage
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (1)
18. The Economics of Child Trafficking
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (6)

2002

19. A Theory of the Emergence of Compulsory Education Laws
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
20. Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Policy Response to Child Labour
    Cahiers de recherche, HEC Montréal, Institut d'économie appliquée View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Explaining cross-country differences in policy response to child labour, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association (2003) View citations (20) (2003)
21. Fertility, Education, and Market Failures
    Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal

2001

22. Taxes, Inequality and the Size of the Informal Sector
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
    See also Journal Article Taxes, inequality and the size of the informal sector, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2003) View citations (58) (2003)
23. Why Banning the Worst Forms of Child Labour Would Hurt Poor Countries
    Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal View citations (3)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2001) View citations (1)
24. Why Don't Poor Countries Adopt Better Technologies?
    Cahiers de recherche du Département des sciences économiques, UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences économiques

2000

25. Child Labor and Coordination Failures
    Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal View citations (20)
    See also Journal Article Child labor and coordination failures, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2001) View citations (64) (2001)

1998

26. Education Subsidy, Fertility, and Growth
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique View citations (1)
27. Government Expenditures on Education, Fertility Rate, and Child Schooling
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
28. Redistributive Taxation, Democracy and Growth
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
    Also in Working Papers, Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique (1998)
29. The Economics of Private Tutoring
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique View citations (2)

1996

30. On the Diffusion of Development: a Late-Industrializing Model
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
31. Subsidy-Allocation Rules for Infant Industries
    Working Papers, Laval - Recherche en Energie
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (1996)

Journal Articles

2010

1. High-Powered Careers and Marriage: Can Women Have It All?
   The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10, (1), 33 View citations (9)
2. On the mechanics of trade-induced structural transformation
   Journal of Macroeconomics, 2010, 32, (1), 251-264 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper On the Mechanics of Trade-Induced Structural Transformation, Cahiers de recherche (2005) View citations (1) (2005)

2008

3. Why is child labor illegal?
   European Economic Review, 2008, 52, (7), 1275-1311 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper Why Is Child Labor Illegal?, IZA Discussion Papers (2007) (2007)

2005

4. A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour
   Economic Journal, 2005, 115, (500), 68-87 View citations (40)

2003

5. Explaining cross-country differences in policy response to child labour
   Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003, 36, (1), 1-20 View citations (20)
   See also Working Paper Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Policy Response to Child Labour, Cahiers de recherche (2002) View citations (4) (2002)
6. Taxes, inequality and the size of the informal sector
   Journal of Development Economics, 2003, 70, (1), 225-233 View citations (58)
   See also Working Paper Taxes, Inequality and the Size of the Informal Sector, Cahiers de recherche (2001) (2001)

2001

7. Child labor and coordination failures
   Journal of Development Economics, 2001, 65, (2), 469-476 View citations (64)
   See also Working Paper Child Labor and Coordination Failures, Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers (2000) View citations (20) (2000)

2000

8. A defense of compulsive measures against child labor
   Journal of Development Economics, 2000, 62, (1), 261-275 View citations (93)