— The gender and politics literature has long debated how women’s proportional strength affects policy formulation within legislatures. Studies on gender and environmental governance have focused mainly on women’s limited participation in local institutions. Both bodies of work leave important aspects unexplored. The former neglects the in-between process — the impact of women’s numbers on thei...

The success of open source software (OSS) projects heavily depends on voluntary participation by a large number of developers. Developers new to an OSS community must participate by engaging in community interactions before they are qualified by the community as core developers. This exploratory study examines new peripheral developers’ temporal participation behavior and its impacts on the tim...

The globalization of English and a growing demand for good English speaking skills in English teachers place a great emphasis on the teaching of English on a Preservice EFL program in Colombia. The ‘Professional Development Program for Teachers of English‘ (PDPTE) offered by the ‘Otún University’ (OU) focuses during the four firsts semesters on providing instruction that may help pre-service te...

We analyze a class of two-candidate voter participation games under complete information that encompasses as special cases certain public good provision games. We characterize the Nash equilibria of these games as stationary points of a non-linear programming problem, the objective function of which is a Morse function (one that does not admit degenerate critical points) for almost all costs of...

We use a specially designed survey to evaluate the effect of several public policies on female labor force participation in Chile. First, we estimate a self-selection model to find the determinants of female labor participation and wages. Our participation estimates show that schooling is highly positively correlated with participation and being married or having a partner is negatively correla...

The concept of community participation gained universal attention with its formalization in the Alma Ata Conference focusing on Primary Health Care held in 1978. Thereafter the concept has attracted many a health planners, activists and policy makers. Following Alma Ata declaration, global frameworks on health, especially the Ottawa charter for Health promotion, 1986 and Jakarta Declaration, 19...