introduction: level of mothers’ literacy, pregnancy history of more than four times, residence in villages, lack of receiving intensive care during pregnancy, as well as inaccessibility to obstetric emergency services have been reported, in iran and the world, as major factors for maternal mortality. considering significance of identifying indirect causes of maternal mortalities, the present st...

We propose a formal approach to the problem of transforming uncertainty into risk via information revelation processes. Abstractions and formalizations regarding information acquisition processes are common in different areas of information sciences. We investigate the relationships between the way information is acquired and the continuity properties of revelation processes. A class of revelat...

I examine two types of mechanisms, demand revelation mechanisms and preference revelation mechanisms, in many-to-one matching problems. As in Hatfield and Milgrom (2005), I consider general matching problems with contracts. I show that the core correspondence is not Nash-implementable by any demand/preference revelation mechanism. A strong version of Maskin monotonicity plays a crucial role for...

The revelation effect describes the increased tendency to call items old when a recognition judgment is preceded by an incidental task. In theory, the effect could come about either from a more liberal response bias or from a change in underlying memory sensitivity. Using analyses of receiver-operating characteristic curves, we show that the revelation effect occurs for each of these reasons, b...

Privacy Concerns, Voluntary Disclosure of Information, and Unraveling: An Experiment by Volker Benndorf, Dorothea Kübler and Hans-Theo Normann* We study the voluntary revelation of private, personal information in a labor-market experiment with a lemons structure where workers can reveal their productivity at a cost. While rational revelation improves a worker's payout, it imposes a negative ex...

philosophical – theological research the quarterly journal of qom university under the supervision of the vice – president for research vol. 15,  no. 2, winter 2013.  proprietor: university of qom chief director: muhammad zabihi. ph.d chief editor: ahmad beheshti, ph.d   board of writers ahmad beheshti, ph.d; gholam-hossein ebrahimi dinani, ph.d; mohsen javadi, ph.d; hojatoleslam sadeq larigani...