<alinea/> On October 12th, 2009 Elinor Ostrom received the Nobel Prize in Economics for her analysis of the commons. This article presents a survey of her work. We shall begin by redrawing the academic route of Ostrom. In the second part, we show how she successively used various methods of...

This paper investigates the extent to which different measures of trust are connected to a community's ability to undertake collective action. The objective is to clarify what trust measurement method is better at explaining how heterogeneous individuals manage to engage in joint activities,...

Because of limited governmental resources, communities in Africa often rely on collective action to provide basic public goods such as schools. What drives the ability of communities to produce better schools? Two important lines of research shaped our understanding of the ability of communities...

French Abstract: Les inégalités d'accès à la santé constituent une préoccupation majeure des pouvoirs publics dans les pays en voie de développement. Dans ce document, nous cherchons à comprendre les sources de ces inégalités en utilisant une base de données d'enquête du DHS de 12...