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Transportation Conditions and Access to Services in a Context of Urban Sprawl and Deregulation. The Case of Dar es Salaam

Olvera, Lourdes Diaz; Plat, Didier; Pochet, Pascal - HAL - 2003

Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...

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Social Exclusion and Capability

Salais, Robert - HAL - 2003

This lecture delivered to an international Conference in Norway on social exclusion and marginalization offered a preliminary approach to capture social exclusion phenomena as capability deprivation. It also offers a first sketch about the several methods of inquiry with regards to the different...

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Somebody may scold you! A dictator experiment

Festré, Agnès; Pierre, Garrouste - HAL - 2015

In this contribution, we investigate the effects of observation-only and observation with feedback from a third-party, in a one-shot dictator game (DG). In addition to a baseline condition (DG), a third-party anonymous subject is introduced who either silently observes or observes and gives...

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Social psychology and environmental economics : a new look at ex ante corrections of biased preference evaluation

Jacquemet, Nicolas; James, Alexander; Luchini, Stephane; … - HAL - 2010

Environmental economics is now a long standing field of research ; much has been learned on how environmental policy can use incentives to drive individual behaviors. Among the many examples, preference elicitation is the most discussed case in which incentives fail to accurately implement...

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Social psychology and environmental economics: a new look at ex ante corrections of biased preference evaluation

Jacquemet, Nicolas; James, Alexander; Luchini, Stephane; … - HAL - 2011

The field of social psychology explores how a person behaves within the context of other people. The social context can play a substantive role in non-market allocation decisions given peoples choices and values extend beyond the classic market-based exchange institution. Herein we explore how...

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Information Technology Conceptualization: Respective Contributions of Sociology and Information Systems

Vaujany, François-Xavier De - HAL - 2005

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …

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Can open source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field.

JULLIEN, Nicolas; Roudaut, Karine - HAL - 2012

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative...

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On the origin of the wta-wtp divergence in public good valuation

Flachaire, Emmanuel; Hollard, Guillaume; Shogren, Jason - HAL - 2011

This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of...

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Measuring demand for sanitation in developing countries: A new theoretical and methodological framework for contingent valuation surveys

Milanesi, Julien - HAL - 2010

A review shows that contingent valuation (CV) studies implemented in developing countries are generally used to measure demands (for water, sanitation or health services) and neglect the valuation of nonmarket goods (like ecosystems, biodiversity, or environmental amenities). These studies also...

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Reciprocal relationships in tax compliance decisions

Bazart, Cécile; Bonein, Aurélie - HAL - 2014

Reciprocity considerations are important to the tax compliance problem as they may explain the global dynamics of tax evasion, beyond individual tax evasion decisions, toward a downward or upward spiral. To provide evidence on reciprocity in tax compliance decisions, we have conducted a...

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