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Women’s longevity is an important health issue: although they live longer than men, their additional years of life are mainly years of poor health and disability. These health situations alter the quality of life and often require extensive care. In this context, the gender gap raises questions a

Life-cycle ceremonies and festive sociability spending; a growing phenomenon among Central Asian populations (in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) has taken ostentatious dimensions between the end of the 1960s and this day. These practices have taken on such proportion that they dro

Part 1 explores the methods of redistribution of wealth, with a particular focus on the tax burden weighing on the middle classes. Part 2 aims to estimate the impact of the evolution, both real and as relayed by the media, of the socio-fiscal system on the vote of the extreme right. This analysis wi

Gender inequalities are still persistent in France. For instance, women continue to face a glass ceiling in their workplace, earn 18.6% less than men, and are 4.5 times more likely to interrupt their career for childcare. In social psychology several models endeavor to identify factors that motivate

This research project deals with the migrations from the French overseas territories in order to analyze the political and institutional logics of these migrations along with the invidual and family logics presiding over the use of state-run migration and mobility programs.The overseas territories t

Inspired by Albert Hirschman’ triptych (exit, voice, loyalty), forced loyalty is what people have to resign to when they are exposed to an authoritarian shift while unable to challenge it or to escape it through exile. It more precisely designates a state of subjection to a coercive power, and helps

The research project will pay close attention to the generation differences. It is notable that the most vocal citizens belong to the first generations of descendants who are between 25 and 35 years old. It will also focus on the impact of the collective mobilisation since 2010 and the diffusion of

The birth of the notion of “race” in early modern Europe has long been thought to be closely linked with the development of scientific thought and practices. The conflicts that pitted science against religion have first crystallised on the question of the origins of mankind, and before scientific

Since the beginning of the 2000s, numerous national and international political and economic organizations have put the fight against corruption at the top of their agenda. It has been the case for the IMF, the OAS, the OECD, the World Bank, national governments and NGOs such as Transparency Interna

This project first aims at building a new political economy of colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It will be grounded in the study of the French case yet with other colonial empires in mind. Our research hypothesis is that colonialism was mainly beneficial to a minority of politically and e

Since the end of the Cold War, the use of military force and its many changes have had a significant impact on populations directly involved. contemporary transformations in warfare correspond to the proliferation of «asymmetrical« confrontations (opposing states and subversive groups, insurgents or

Incapacities were imposed on bastards by the producers of canonical and customary norms, who were nevertheless careful to ensure that these discriminations were also tempered. This social construction has conditioned kinship relations in tension between duties under the law of nature ('to nurture')

Evidence suggests that inequalities in health begin from the starting gate and that therefore early childhood is crucial to our understanding of the production of health inequalities in later life. Compared to other national settings, there is less data and empirical research about the dynamics of h

CosPo addresses this issue by studying how governments use opinion surveys. A primary objective is to study the mechanisms that determine why an issue enters the polling agenda (of governments) at a particular moment in time, how it is taken up by policy makers (type of inquiry used, its framing, q