Economics serving society

(January 2019) 5 papers... in 5 minutes !

Accelerating Diffusion of Climate-Friendly Technologies: A Network Approach

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Solmaria Halleck Vega, Antoine Mandel and Katrin Millock

Technology transfers and diffusion of green technologies are considered essential means to obtain the objectives of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Such transfers typically occur through firms engaging in international trade, foreign direct investment, and licensing....

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Prenatal care and socioeconomic status: effect on cesarean delivery

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Carine Milcent

Controlling health expenditure and using it more efficiently is a major issue today. The plan unveiled by President Macron in September 2018 shows this. According to this plan, the lack of money in health establishments – which are on the verge of implosion – is not the major reason for their current state...

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The “flight to safety” and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crisis in France during the Great Depression

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Patrice Baubeau, Eric Monnet, Angelo Riva and Stefano Ungaro

How does a banking crisis lead to a credit crunch and an economic crisis? Traditional interpretations – founded on analysis of the run on the banks in the 1930s in the United States – described the roles of monetary and non-monetary factors....

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Metacognitive ability predicts learning cue-stimulus associations in the absence of external feedback

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Marine Hainguerlot, Jean-Christophe Vergnaud and Vincent De Gardelle

A funny saying has it that “predictions are difficult to make, especially when they concern the future!”. However, a good knowledge of our environment allows us, even so, in certain cases to predict whether one future event is more probable than another...

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What can education policy do about social inequality?

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Luc Behaghel, Clément De Chaisemartin and Marc Gurgand

The “Equality of educational opportunity” report, also known as the Coleman Report (1966) is often interpreted as a demonstration of the relative impotence of schools policy: social and familial milieus have greater influence on students’ trajectories than the distribution of public resources...