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Les pays d'Afrique subsaharienne ont à scolariser un nombre croissant d'enfants, dans un contexte d'approfondissement de la pauvreté. Si les taux de scolarisation sont plus faibles en milieu rural, les villes connaissent également de fortes difficultés. Cet article analyse, pour Conakry,...
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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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The extent of racial discrimination in the labor market is now clearly identified, but its nature largely remains an open question. This paper reports results from an experiment in which fabricated resumes are sent to help-wanted advertisements in Chicago newpapers. We use three groups of...
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Située au cœur d'une région aux conditions climatiques favorables, Bangui, capital de la République Centrafricaine, ne semble pas, à première vue, connaître de difficultés d'approvisionnement majeures, contrairement, aux grandes capitales africaines ou aux villes sahéliennes. Cependant,...
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Cette étude faite au niveau général du budget ne présage cependant rien en ce qui concerne le détail de chacun des postes de dépense. Or, l'hypothèse d'un investissement en grande partie lié aux dépenses passées et aux caractéristiques actuelles est tout à fait plausible pour le...
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We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply. We characterize the steady-state equilibrium when exogenous divorce is the only source of risk. The estimated matching probabilities that can be derived from the steady-state...
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Nous présentons les principaux résultats obtenus à partir des premières applications de la méthode expérimentale à l'analyse économique du droit. Nous commençons par recenser les travaux qui évaluent la pertinence empirique du monde sans friction décrit par le théorème de Coase,...
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Herein we explore whether the social psychology theory of commitment via a truth-telling oath can reduce coordination failure. Using a classic sequential coordination game, we ask all players to sign voluntarily a truth-telling oath before playing the game with cheap-talk communication. Three...
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Hypothetical bias is a long-standing issue in stated preference and contingent valuation studies - people tend to overstate their preferences when they do not experience the real monetary consequences of their decision. This view, however, has been challenged by recent evidence based on the...
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In experiments based on the Beard and Beil (1994) game, second movers very often fail to select the decision that maximizes both players payoff. This note reports on a new experimental treatment, in which we neutralize the potential effect of inequality aversion on the likelihood of this...
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