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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative...
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This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …
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The article aims at assessing the effectiveness of a role-play in addressing two concerns: clarifying the concept of sustainable development and teaching sustainable development issues. The effectiveness is gauged by surveying students to reveal how the game matches a set of "significant...
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The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … by alternative explanations. One of them is that participation aims not to increase education quality but rather to …
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This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …
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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an OLG model, where human capital dynamics depend on the current environment, through its impact on children's school attendance. In turn, environmental quality dynamics depend on...
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The paper presents the GAMEO model. It is a dynamic microsimulation model which aims at analyse educational output. It develops a generational approach and put the stress on the ditribution of educational output differentiated by type an level of degree.
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WWII in France. In order to identify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the small group of people … graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles) remained stable, while the rest of the system experienced tremendous … cohorts that received more education have a lower wage gap, relative to Grandes Ecoles. We show that such a large scale …
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argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the existence of diminishing returns to education that limit the extension …
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Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas … existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben …-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining between the parent and the child. We develop a three-period OLG …
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