Title:The Influence of Educational Segregation on Educational Achievement
Author(s):ROBERT, PeterDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper investigates the impact of homogeneous vs. heterogeneous grouping of students with respect to their social origin on the differences in educational achievement. There are two competing hypotheses in this respect: ...
Title:The Influence of Shale Gas on U.S. Energy and Environmental Policy
Author(s):JACOBY, Henry D.; O'SULLIVAN, Francis M.; PALTSEV, SergeyDate:2011-10-06Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The emergence of U.S. shale gas resources to economic viability affects the nation’s energy outlook
and the expected role of natural gas in climate policy. Even in the face of the current shale gas boom,
however, questions ...
Title:The informal communication network built by Domingo del Monte from Havana between 1824 and 1845
Author(s):AGUILERA-MANZANO, José MaríaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The aim of this research is to study the informal channels of communication built by Domingo del Monte, and the circle of authors around him, during the transition from the Ancien Régime to liberalism, in order to spread ...
Title:Information Disclosure and the Equivalence of Prospective Payment and Cost Reimbursement
Author(s):MA, Ching-to Albert; MAK, Henry Y.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:A health care provider chooses medical service quality and cost-reduction effort. Both choices are non-contractible. An insurer observes both quality and cost effort, and may credibly disclose them to consumers. In prospective ...
Title:Innocent Victims of Red KZs? West German Representations of Soviet Internment 1945-55
Author(s):BEATTIE, AndrewDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on Soviet internment camps established in eastern Germany in the wake of the Second World War. Since 1990 there has been heated debate about who was in the camps and ...
Title:Innovative Features in Conditional Cash Transfers: The impact evaluation of Chile Solidario on households and children
Author(s):MARTORANO, Bruno; SANFILIPPO, MarcoDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:UNICEF Innocenti Working PaperAbstract:Social protection represents an important tool to mitigate poverty and to promote adequate living standards and conditions. In Latin America social protection has largely taken the form of large scale implementation of ...
Title:An Inquiry into the International Rule of Law
Author(s):BEAULAC, StephaneDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The modern articulation of the constitutional principle of the rule of law is credited to
A.V. Dicey, who identified three essential elements of what is generally considered a
formal version of the concept. Namely, (1) ...
Title:The Ins and Outs of Dualisation: A Literature Review
Author(s):DAVIDSSON, Johan; NACZYK, MarekDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:UO Barnett Papers in Social ResearchAbstract:Outsiders', the 'underclass', the 'working poor', the 'socially excluded', the 'disadvantaged' are all terms that point to what is deemed to be a key characteristic of post-industrial societies, i.e. increasing inequalities ...