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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
This research overview focuses on differences between individuals when it comes to results in learning foreign languages in school. The aim is to identify and discuss studies about factors responsible for differences in the potential to learn foreign languages from one individual to the next as well as the various tools designed to evaluate them (MLAT, LLAMA, CANAL-FT, FLCAS etc.). The ...
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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
This research overview focuses on differences between individuals when it comes to results in learning foreign languages in school. The aim is to identify and discuss studies about factors responsible for differences in the potential to learn foreign languages from one individual to the next as well as the various tools designed to evaluate them (MLAT, LLAMA, CANAL-FT, FLCAS etc.). The research...
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(Working Papers SES ; 428)
This paper examines how family and non-family ownership affects the performance of Swiss listed firms from 2003 to 2010. We distinguish between these two types of controlling shareholders since they have different objectives. We hypothesise that only family shareholders have a real incentive to reduce agency costs whereas non-family blockholders are similar to widely held companies. Our results...
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(Working Papers SES ; 460)
This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality level information from the census as well as nationwide elections and referenda to characterize a student›s home environment with respect to religious and political attitudes towards gender equality...
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(Working Papers SES ; 521)
Causal estimation of the short-term effects of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on vegetable producer prices is hampered by the large variety and different growing seasons of vegetables and is therefore rarely performed. We quantify the effects of Swiss seasonal TRQs on domestic producer prices of a variety of vegetables based on a difference-indifferences estimation using a novel dataset of weekly...
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Dans le cadre du projet « Concept de qualité pour l’offre de cours fide », l’encouragement linguistique dans le domaine migratoire en Suisse a été examiné sous l’angle de l’assurance et du développement de la qualité, l’analyse s’articulant autour des deux questions suivantes : - A quels mesures ou instruments les mandataires de cours de langue recourent-ils pour assurer et...
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Cette recherche en didactique s’interroge sur les conditions d’une éducation aux valeurs en Suisse romande pour des élèves du cycle 3 âgés de 13 à 15 ans. Afin de répondre à cette question, le contexte est étudié pour que le lecteur prenne connaissance du plan d’études en vigueur et de ses attentes quant à l’éducation aux valeurs. Cette partie consacrée au contexte...
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(Working Papers SES ; 518)
Spatial isolation is considered as one of the main determinants of poverty. Therefore, many transport investments are undertaken with a stated objective of poverty reduction. In our paper, we evaluate a Tanzanian program that rehabilitated 2500km of major roads between 2008 and 2013. We deal with endogenous placement issues with a household fixed-effect strategy combined with a propensity score...
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