(June 2014) 5 papers...in 5 minutes !
- Sons as Widowhood Insurance: Evidence from Senegal - Sylvie Lambert and Pauline Rossi. In developing countries, the family is often considered as a palliative in the absence of formal insurance systems. Implicitly, the participation of these networks of solidarity is assumed not to generate any costs other than that of reciprocity...
- Harsanyi’s aggregation theorem with incomplete preferences - Eric Danan, Thibault Gajdos and Jean-Marc Tallon. Economists often base their recommendations on an aggregate measure of the gains promised by a certain policy. Ideally, the measure should reflect the increased well-being for the society that the policy will bring, but quantifying this social well-being is difficult...
- Merger analysis and public transport service contract - Philippe Gagnepain, Chantal Latgé-Roucolle and Marc Ivaldi. Assessment of the effects on social well-being of a merger of two firms in the public sector context is a crucial matter. In the urban transport industry in France, the possibility of managing a network is allocated to transport operators after it has responded to a call for tenders...
- Evaluation of the French Affelnet procedure - Victor Hiller and Olivier Tercieux. Every year, in every academy, education authorities have an impact on the lives of thousands of students in hundreds of lycées, juggling the preferences of the parents and the positions of priority allocated to the students...
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