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infrastructure and the Demographic and Health Surveys collected in six African countries. Firstly we show that living in proximity to …. Secondly, our ndings reveal that road infrastructure improves the level of HIV/AIDS-knowledge and facilitates access to condoms …
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Given the low condom use and high prevalence in some African countries, this paper addresses the question of whether these evidences are driven by a supply-side or a demandside issue. The role of road infrastructures on HIV/AIDS outcomes is investigated using data from the Demographic and Health...
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Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk … figuring out the possible futures of the technology and of the industry. Avoiding oligopoly capture relies on an understanding …
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In Africa, boundaries delineated during the colonial era now divide young independent states. By applying regression discontinuity designs to a large set of surveys covering the 1986-2001 period, this paper identifies many large and significant jumps in welfare at the borders between five...
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This paper presents a new methodology aimed at building institutional indicators. Up to now, all the available indicators have relied on an analysis of the supply of legal protection. Conversely we propose here a methodology based on the analysis of the demand for legal protection, as it is...
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We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...
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2008 ; Ahrens & Chapman 2007 a, Chenhall 2003). Given the pervasiveness of technology use today, we aim at developing an … approach that takes into account the role of technology. Our results derive from an empirical work made of an exploratory … technology-in-practice (Orlikowski 2007, 2000, Feldman & Orlikowski 2010). …
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Developing term structure models can be tricky, as unknown factors and non-observable variables can affect futures prices. But principal components analysis is useful in tackling these problems. Here, Delphine Lautier uses PCA to pin down price movements, test their stability over time and to...
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