| Halting degradation of natural resources: is there a role for rural communities? JM Baland, JP Platteau Food & Agriculture Org., 1996 | 3108 | 1996 |
| Is child labor inefficient? JM Baland, JA Robinson journal of Political Economy 108 (4), 663-679, 2000 | 1098 | 2000 |
| The economics of roscas and intrahousehold resource allocation S Anderson, JM Baland The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (3), 963-995, 2002 | 691 | 2002 |
| The ambiguous impact of inequality on local resource management JM Baland, JP Platteau World development 27 (5), 773-788, 1999 | 561 | 1999 |
| Rent-seeking and resource booms JM Baland, P Francois Journal of development Economics 61 (2), 527-542, 2000 | 513 | 2000 |
| Land and power: Theory and evidence from Chile JM Baland, JA Robinson American Economic Review 98 (5), 1737-65, 2008 | 332 | 2008 |
| Wealth inequality and efficiency in the commons Part I: the unregulated case JM Baland, JP Platteau Oxford Economic Papers 49 (4), 451-482, 1997 | 309 | 1997 |
| Pretending to be poor: Borrowing to escape forced solidarity in Cameroon JM Baland, C Guirkinger, C Mali Economic development and cultural change 60 (1), 1-16, 2011 | 243 | 2011 |
| Division of the commons: a partial assessment of the new institutional economics of land rights JM Baland, JP Platteau American journal of agricultural economics 80 (3), 644-650, 1998 | 184 | 1998 |
| Inequality, cooperation, and environmental sustainability PK Bardhan, JM Baland, S Bowles Princeton University Press, 2007 | 183 | 2007 |
| The environmental impact of poverty: evidence from firewood collection in rural Nepal JM Baland, P Bardhan, S Das, D Mookherjee, R Sarkar Economic Development and Cultural Change 59 (1), 23-61, 2010 | 182 | 2010 |
| Wealth inequality and efficiency in the Commons, part II: the regulated case JM Baland, JP Platteau Oxford Economic Papers 50 (1), 1-22, 1998 | 149 | 1998 |
| Forests to the people: Decentralization and forest degradation in the Indian Himalayas JM Baland, P Bardhan, S Das, D Mookherjee World Development 38 (11), 1642-1656, 2010 | 120 | 2010 |
| Enforcement in informal saving groups S Anderson, JM Baland, KO Moene Journal of development Economics 90 (1), 14-23, 2009 | 120 | 2009 |
| Commons as insurance and the welfare impact of privatization JM Baland, P Francois Journal of Public Economics 89 (2-3), 211-231, 2005 | 116 | 2005 |
| Governance and development JM Baland, KO Moene, JA Robinson Handbook of development economics 5, 4597-4656, 2010 | 109 | 2010 |
| Economics of common property management regimes JM Baland, JP Platteau Handbook of environmental economics 1, 127-190, 2003 | 96 | 2003 |
| The distributive impact of land markets in Uganda JM Baland, F Gaspart, JP Platteau, F Place Economic Development and Cultural Change 55 (2), 283-311, 2007 | 95 | 2007 |
| Collective action on the commons: the role of inequality JM Baland, JP Platteau Inequality, cooperation, and environmental sustainability, 10-35, 2007 | 79 | 2007 |
| Coordination problems in local-level resource management JM Baland, JP Platteau Journal of development economics 53 (1), 197-210, 1997 | 78 | 1997 |
