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There exists a large consensus in the economic literature and in the economic institutions about the legitimacy of policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a standard framework of endogenous fertility, the present...
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democracies, governments need to convince their populations through efficient and persuasive information campaigns. In the context …, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate …, and that it is information of a purely scientific nature that has the only significant positive effect on intention to …
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We study the impact of information manipulation by a principal on the agent's effort. In a context of asymmetric … information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under …-estimate) the information she gives to her agent on his ability in order to motivate him to exert more effort. We find that i …
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This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
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We develop an overlapping generations model with environmental quality and endogenous environmental culture. Based upon empirical evidence, preferences over culturally-weighted consumption and envi- ronmental quality are assumed to follow a Leontie function. We fi nd that four diff erent regimes...
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In this article we study the implication of thresholds in preferences. To model this we extend the basic model of John and Pecchenino (1994) by allowing the current level of environmental quality to have a discrete impact on how an agent trades off future consumption and environmental quality....
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de l'information et de la connaissance. Nous opposons, ce qui est banal dans le domaine de sciences cognitives, et ne l …
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Dans cet article, nous formalisons deux critères de décisions qui tentent de rendre compte de deux logiques différentes d'interprétation du Principe de précaution. Le premier critère correspond à la maximisation du minimum de l'espérance d'utilité alors que le second critère correspond...
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stored - an approach more deserving of the label Information Management. Recently there has been recognition that some …
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social et politique, et de soutenir son propre développement. Cela dépend, notamment, de la production d'une information …
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