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Sons as Widowhood Insurance: Evidence from Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Rossi, Pauline - HAL - 2014
Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly … to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until they get a son. Insurance through sons entails substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750980
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How Can Gender Discrimination Explain Fertility Behaviors and Family-friends Policies ?
Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2008
gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738524
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Stature, Skills and Adult Life Outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia
Bargain, Olivier; Zeidan, Jinan - HAL - 2014
We investigate the effect of height on earnings, occupational choices and a subjective measure of well-being among Indonesian men. We explore the extent to which height captures the effects of human capital endowments set before entry on the labor market. Cognitive skills, co-determined with...
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Preferences for redistribution : an empirical analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2011
People's preferences for state intervention in social policies vary. A cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data is conducted here to highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand for redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually...
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738889
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784107
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Using Financial Ratios to Identify Romanian Distressed Companies
Andreica, Madalina; Andreica, Mugurel Ionut; Andreica, Marin - HAL - 2009
In the context of the current financial crisis, when more companies are facing bankruptcy or insolvency, the paper aims to find methods to identify distressed firms by using financial ratios. The study will focus on identifying a group of Romanian listed companies, for which financial data for...
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Competition in the quality of higher education: the impact of students' mobility
Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert - HAL - 2010
This paper analyzes in a two-country model the impact of students' mobility on the country-specific level of higher educational quality. Individuals decide whether and where to study based on their individual ability and the implemented quality of education. We show that the mobility of students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738913
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Information technologies, students'e-skills and diversity of learning process
Youssef, Adel Ben; Dahmani, Mounir; Omrani, Nessrine - HAL - 2013
Driven by Information Technologies (IT), universities are making in depth changes to the nature and form of learning processes, which are intended to better prepare students for entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of IT in an institution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820850
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Should you believe in the Shanghai ranking?
Billaut, Jean-Charles; Bouyssou, Denis; Vincke, Philippe - HAL - 2010
This paper proposes a critical analysis of the "Academic Ranking of World Universities", published every year by the Institute of Higher Education of the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and more commonly known as the Shanghai ranking. After having recalled how the ranking is built, we first...
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