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An Econometric Analysis of Intergenerational Reliance on Social Assistance [PDF]
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of participation in Québec's social assistance program. The analysis takes into account two sources of intergenerational transmission: one that is due to a causal link between parents' and children's
Beaulieu, Nicolas +3 more
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Economic Isolation, Inequality, and the Suits Index of Progressivity [PDF]
We present a class of social evaluation functions and inequality indices that obey standard axioms of welfare economics and that can be intuitively linked to measures of relative deprivation and economic isolation.
DUCLOS, Jean-Yves
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Bayesian Analysis of Road Accidents: A General Framework for the Multinomial Case [PDF]
The detection of dangerous road sites is usually performed using empirical methods which focus on observed accident frequencies and/or proportions of accidents with a given feature.
Bolduc, Denis, Bonin, Sylvie
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Serial Cost Sharing with Many Goods and General Aggregation [PDF]
The Serial Cost Sharing Rule has been conceived originally for problems where agents ask for different quantities of an homogeneous private good, the sum of which is produced by a single facility.
Truchon, Michel, Téjédo, Cyril
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An Extension of the Concordet Criterion and Kemeny Orders [PDF]
The usual Condorcet Criterion says that if an alternative is ranked ahead of all other alternatives by an absolute majority of voters, it should be declared the winner.
Truchon, Michel
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Enquête de terrain et travail de recherche à Cuba
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2016 Vanessa Oliveira, Xavier Calmettes
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Governance and Development [PDF]
In this paper we discuss whether or not `governance' is an important source of variation in development experiences. We draw four main conclusions. First, governance is best thought of a sub-set of `institutions' and as such emphasis on governance is ...
James A. Robinson +2 more
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Transformation of the Family under Rising Land Pressure: A Theoretical Essay [PDF]
If we understand well the individualization of land tenure rules under conditions of growing land scarcity and increased market integration, much less is known about the mode of evolution of the farm-cum-family units possessing the land.
Catherine Guirkinger +1 more
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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: an Integrated Approach [PDF]
The last 20 years have seen a significant evolution in the literature on horizontal inequity (HI) and have led to two major and "rival" methodological strands, namely, classical HI and reranking.
Araar, Abdelkrim +2 more
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