DETERMINING PRESCHOOLERS' PREFERENCES FOR CHOICE-MAKING OPPORTUNITIES: CHOICE OF TASK VERSUS CHOICE OF CONSEQUENCE

Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice.

THE PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHIER AMERICA (PHA) is devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation’s youth by helping solve the childhood obesity crisis. PHA brings together public, private, and nonprofit leaders to broker meaningful commitments and develop strategies to end childhood obesity. Founded in 2010 in conjunction with—but independent from—Let’s Move!, PHA ...

Utilities , Preferences and Choice

Dating Preferences and Meeting Opportunities in Mate Choice Decisions

Much empirical evidence shows that female and male partners look alike along a variety of attributes. It is however unclear how this positive sorting comes about, because marriage is an equilibrium outcome arising from a process that entails searching, meeting and choosing one another. This study takes advantage of a unique data set to shed light on the forces driving choices at the earliest st...

Childbirth choice and effect of education

Annually, many women become pregnant worldwide; however, pregnancy and childbirth is not a pleasant event for all them. In fact, more than 90% of maternal anxiety could be related to the delivery process. It should be noted that delivery is also a stressful event that sometimes, due to different reasons and in order to avoid its potential hazards which could threaten the lives of mother and bab...

Justifiable Preferences for Freedom of Choice

In this paper we say that a preference for freedom of choice is justifiable if there exists a reflexive and complete binary relation on the set of alternatives, such that one opportunity set is at least as good as a second, if and only if the there is at least one alternative from the first set which is no worse than any alternative of the two sets combined together, with respect to the binary ...