Title:Just A Matter of Time: Empirical Evidence of the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility in Italy
Author(s):FORT, MargheritaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper assesses the causal effects of education on fertility, allowing for
heterogeneity in the effects while controlling for the self-selection of women into
education. Identification relies on exogenous variation ...
Title:Keeping Government Secrecy Safe: Beyond Whack-a-Mole
Author(s):CURTIN, DeirdreDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:The concept of secrecy as a mechanism for not providing government information, on the one hand, and the commitment to openness of government, on the other, reflect certain historical understandings of the relationship ...
Title:La Invención de Edmundo O’Gorman
Author(s):AVILÉS FLORES, Pablo; CHEIRIF WOLOSKY, Alejandro; DELMAS, AdrienDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Il y a certainement quelque chose d’ironique à organiser un colloque sur Edmundo O’Gorman à Paris, Paris qu’il qualifiait volontiers de temple de l’orthodoxie de l’histoire pour mieux se déclarer lui-même hétérodoxe. Non ...
Title:Laws and Norms
Author(s):BENABOU, Roland; TIROLE, JeanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first ...
Title:Le choix rationnel en science politique. Débats critiques
Author(s):DELORI, Mathias; DESCHAUX-BEAUME, Delphine; SAURUGGER, SabineDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Les sciences politiques françaises et, plus largement, continentales sont restées largement imperméables à une dynamique théorique majeure de ces dernières années : la montée en puissance du paradigme du choix rationnel ...