Conditional and Conditioned Reasons

Must Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Be Conditioned to Be Effective?

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Reasons for participating in randomised controlled trials: conditional altruism and considerations for self

BACKGROUND Randomised controlled trials of healthcare interventions depend on the participation of volunteers who might not derive any personal health benefit from their participation. The idea that altruistic-type motives are important for trial participation is understandably widespread, but recent studies suggest considerations of personal benefit can influence participation decisions in var...

Total Variation Approximations and Conditional Limit Theorems for Multivariate Regularly Varying Random Walks Conditioned on Ruin

We study a new technique for the asymptotic analysis of heavy-tailed systems conditioned on large deviations events. We illustrate our approach in the context of ruin events of multidimensional regularly varying random walks. Our approach is to study the Markov process described by the random walk conditioned on hitting a rare target set. We construct a Markov chain whose transition kernel can ...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Conditional Stimulus Informativeness Governs Conditioned Stimulus—Unconditioned Stimulus Associability

Conditional Knockout of NMDA Receptors in Dopamine Neurons Prevents Nicotine-Conditioned Place Preference

Nicotine from smoking tobacco produces one of the most common forms of addictive behavior and has major societal and health consequences. It is known that nicotine triggers tobacco addiction by activating nicotine acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the midbrain dopaminergic reward system, primarily via the ventral tegmental area. Heterogeneity of cell populations in the region has made it diff...