When a person embarks upon a professional scientific career, what features define their training process? How is this process related to scientific practice and, in general, its development within the organisational setting of the R&D system? The changes affecting contemporary science since the...

This paper investigates the effect of poverty and good intentions on dictator game giving. Previous experimental studies in which information was supplied to dictators about recipients have shown that dictator giving increases overall in this context. We develop a new design of standard informed...

This paper aims to contribute further insights into the valuation individuals make of agriculture performance taking into account its multifunctional feature. Using data from the 2003 Survey on Individuals’ Opinion on Rurality and Agriculture in Andalucía (Agrobarometre 2003) an ordered...

User´s satisfaction is an important tool to evaluate the performance of healthcare services. This paper aims to provide the most suitable measure of quality assessment that can help policy-makers in the design and implementation of programs oriented to successfully increase healthcare...

We study the determinants of the demand of cultural goods using two different approaches. Starting by a simple analytical model that deals with the optimal demand of cultural goods for a consumer that lives two periods, we investigate the relevance of cultural capital on taste formation. Some...

El presente artículo analiza las representaciones sociales sobre la agricultura predominantes en la sociedad andaluza. Los datos en los que se basa dicho análisis proceden de una encuesta aplicada a una muestra de 3.192 sujetos de toda Andalucía (Opinión Pública, Agricultura y Sociedad...

This article is based on the study Public Opinion and Rural Development. The Intermediate Evaluation of the European Union Initiative Leader Plus in Andalusia, carried out between the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004 by the Institute of Social Studies of Andalusia (IESA-CSIC). In these...

In this article we explore the positive use of “social identity” in order to explain certain instances of social action. We attempt to isolate its explanatory power alongside the two great motivational mechanisms of the sociological tradition: interests and instrumental rationality, on the...