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Applying the Capability Approach to the French Education System: An Assessment of the "Pourquoi pas moi ?" Programme

André, Kévin - HAL - 2013

This paper attempts to re-examine the notion of equality, going beyond the classic opposition in France between affirmative action and meritocratic equality. Hence, we propose shifting the French debate about equality of opportunities in education to the question of how to raise equality of...

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Is introducing rapid culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative tuberculosis cost-effective?

YAKHELEF, Nadia; Audibert, Martine; VARAINE, Francis; … - HAL - 2013

Setting: In 2007, WHO recommended introducing rapid Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) culture in the diagnostic algorithm of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of the introduction of rapid non-commercial culture method (Thin Layer Agar)...

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Disability and social security reforms: The French case

Behaghel, Luc; Blanchet, Didier; Debrand, Thierry; … - HAL - 2011

retirement. These routes have exempted French workers from massively relying on disability motives for early exits, contrarily to …-retirement schemes almost non-existent. Yet the role of disability remains interesting to examine in the French case, at least for … underlines that disability routes have often acted as a substitute to other retirement routes. Changes in the claiming of …

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Welfare economics

Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2013

This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the...

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A Reformulation of Libertarian Paternalism

Lecouteux, Guilhem - HAL - 2013

Conventional normative economics is built on the assumption that people act as if seeking to satisfy coherent and a priori preferences. This model has however been challenged by many empirical works highlighting the existence of systematic deviations from the behaviour predicted by the...

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Abram Bergson

Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2013

This paper briefly presents the life of Abram Bergson (Burk). It summarizes its most important contributions to economic theory : microeconomics, welfare economics, comparative economics and sovietology. The role of value judgments in the construction of social indexes or in the comparison of...

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