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How can gender discrimination explain fertility behaviors and family-friendly policies ?.

Recoules, Magali - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend...

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Family policies : what does the standard endogenous fertility model tell us ?.

Baudin, Thomas - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008

exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children …

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Missing Daughters, Missing Brides?.

d'Albis, Hippolyte; Croix, David de la - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the possible imbalance at steady state, taking into account the...

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La mesure du travail dans la famille : création, définition et mesure du travail parental.

Barrère-Maurisson, Marie-Agnès - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

How the transformations of the family, but also those of employment, did lead to new practices, specific and distinct from domestic work in the strict sense, around the assumption of responsibility of the children by the family ? How this particular work, the parental one, could be isolated and...

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Labour market uncertainties for the young workforce in France and Germany: Implications for family formation and fertility

Letablier, Marie-Thérèse; Salles, Anne - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013

This contribution to the Gusto research project for the European 7th framework programme (Work Package 3: individual pathways to Flexibility and Sustainability) examines how employment uncertainty during the transition into the labour force differently impacts family formation in Germany and...

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Les entreprises de l'économie sociale comme source d'innovation sociale. Un détour historique par le XIXe siècle.

Fretel, Anne - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009

The notion of association in the 19th century was throught as an alternatives mode of work organization which could solve the "social question". Though the study of author's as Saint-Simon or Blanc we are able to show that the innovating potential of their reforms is due to the moral framework...

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Does malaria control impact education? A study of the Global Fund in Africa.

Kuecken, Maria; Thuilliez, Josselin; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013

We examine the middle-run effects of the Global Fund's malaria control programs on the educational attainment of primary schoolchildren in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we exploit geographic variation in pre-campaign malaria prevalence (malaria ecology) and variation...

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Language Skills and Homophilous Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from Gender- and Racially-Differentiated Applications.

Edo, Anthony; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Yannelis, Constantine - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2013

This paper investigates the importance of ethnic homophily in the hiring discrimination process, and provides a novel test for statistical discrimination. Our evidence comes from a correspondence test performed in France, in which we use three different kinds of ethnic identification: French...

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The health consequences of Mozambican civil war : an anthropometric approach.

Domingues, Patrick - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010

survivors health is crucial for the design of post-war economic policies. This paper investigates this question for the … years of life have a weaker health, reflected by a lower height for age z-score (HAZ). Using the Infancy Childhood Puberty … indicates that months of civil war before a woman's birth also have a negative impact on her health highlighting the importance …

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Accounting for the Effects of AIDS on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011

In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we precisely account for the effects of the epidemic on income per capita through human and physical capital accumulations, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the...

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