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Coming into the World Social environment at Birth, Family Structures and Early Education – VENIROMOND
The aim of the project is twofold. 1) To analyse caring and educational practices during the first year of life, and the development over time of the relations that mothers and fathers establish with their children. 2) To capture the diversity of these relations and practices through the mothers’ an
Place and Role of Quality and Safety Indicators in Hospitals – PRIQS
Background Different countries have launched national reporting programs on hospitals based on quality and safety measurements. Beyond technical definitions, a key-issue is to ensure that an effective improvement is ensured due to the implementation of these measurements. However, the hypothesis
Quantitative Public Policy Evaluation using ex-ante and ex-post techniques – EVALPOLPUB
Research in economics is divided somewhat artificially into two different strands of different but complementary logics. On the one hand, ex-post evaluation methods generally use data collected from natural experiments. The typical approach is to use a difference-in-difference estimate of the ca
French legal codes dictionnary – DICODEX
The project's purpose is to exhume the definitions contained in the codes of French law in order to know the nature, the legal force and reality. At the time of the interim report in July 2012, many codes are still exploring. However, the challenge set at the beginning of the research is on a positi
Discrimination considered as a social experience and a practical political philosophy – DISCRI
The present conception of social justice is progressively concentrating on fighting discriminations. One questions less the inequalities between social positions than the access of a number of individuals and groups to all kinds of social positions. In this picture, the inequalities considered most
Experimentation of the archiving and secondary analysis of qualitative research – REANALYSE
The creation of a qualitative research database, containing material likely to be reanalysed, seems to to address a number of recurring problems posed by the use of qualitative methods in the social sciences. Such a data base would address concerns about efficiency and resolve issues of access to sa
Territorial Risk Complexity, Expertise and Research – CRITERE
This project considers risks’integration in socio-economic territorial management policies from a point of view based on complex systems. Risks’ integration (and more accurately road risk which this research deals with) at local level, faces various interactions and regulations, which are operated
Professional trajectories in hybridizing regimes: the case of nanotechnologies – Hybridtrajectories
The emergence of scientific and technological fields can follow three distinct technological trajectories: 1) a major disruption with regard to the previous technologies (e.g. biotechnologies which emerged through “destructive creation” among the life sciences); 2) a cumulative regime where previous
Unequel Capital, 1807-2007 – Capital
What do we know about the long-run tendencies of income and wealth distribution in capitalist societies? Very little. Yet inequality has generated heated political discussions and theoretical speculations for centuries. To this day it remains a central focus of much research in social science. Un
Cross-disciplinary research ventures in postwar American social science: Six case studies (Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan and MIT). – ISS
In recent years the decades following World War II have often been presented as an era of critical transformation in American social science, with the changes occasioned by the war being consolidated during the Cold War. Whether one considers increasing disciplinary autonomy, the avoidance of ethic
The Multiple Dimensions of Inequality – MULTINEQ
During the last twenty years, the world has changed in a profound way, largely associated with globalisation. We have witnessed the rapid expansion of Asian economies, the collapse of the Soviet Union, economic and social decline in sub-Saharan Africa, stagnation in many parts of the Pacific, and in
Corporate Governance, Organization and Sustainable Development – GEODD
The grant proposal CGOSD (Corporate Governance, Organization and Sustainable Development) is set on two types of premises: - first, the widely shared assumption that in the face of the recent failure of the Copenhagen summit and of the multiple crisis – social, economic, financial, ecological – sig
Impact of Global Warming on Polar Arctic Cryosphere : Loven East Glacier Basin, 79°N, Spitsbergen – Cryo-Sensors
Arctic and sub-arctic regions are very reactive to climatic changes. Because of the significant air-temperature increase (+2°C over 40 years, or +0.5 °C/decade) and the increased liquid precipitations (an additional few tens of mm/decade), the continental cryosphere (permafrost, glacier, snow) is si
Modelling the major transitions in the evolution of settlement systems in Old and New Worlds: environemental constraints, spatial interactions and social inovations in complex systems multi-scalar dynamics – TransMonDyn
The concept of settlement system is useful to deal with societies’ ways of inhabiting the earth, at the local scale as well as that of the planet. It suggests that interactions among places, agents, and between agents and their environments, play a driving role in transforming spatial configurations
Econometric Approaches for Risk Modelling – Econom&Risks
The objective of Econom&Risk project was to contribute to a better financial risk analysis, not only in normal market conditions, but also in times of financial crisis. This research project focused on two dimensions of risk: (i) market risk and (ii) liquidity risk. Measurement of financial risks is
Individual and collective behavior toward risk : risk sharing, risk management & risk attitudes – RISK
Une fois ces hypothèse relâchées, s’ouvre alors un nouveau domaine d’investigation très riche et les directions de recherche sont nombreuses. Parmi d’autres se posent les questions suivantes : Comment se forment les anticipations des investisseurs ? Comment évoluent ces anticipations ? Quel est l’im
New Information Services – NIS
The extraordinary technological progress in information technologies is at the same time creating new industries and disrupting old ones. The importance of these disruptions is well known, but is still understudied by economists. Understanding the new issues requires developing our knowledge on the
information and communication in large networks – net
Our main objective is to analyze how information is transmitted in large networks. The main question we are interested in is the efficiency of the information transmission process, taking into account the behaviour of the protagonists. To this end, we will develop game-theoretic models that captur