in both developing and developed countries, health ministries closely examine use of so-called nudges to promote population health and welfare. cass sunstein and richard thaler, who developed the concept, define a nudge as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. ...

the present study aimed at validating the structure of career decision-making difficulties questionnaire (cddq).five hundred and eleven undergraduate students took part in this research; from these participants, 63 males and 200 females took part in the first study, and 63 males and 185 females completed the survey for the second study.the results of exploratory factor analysis (efa) indicated ...

background: understanding why the graduates from the high schools choose nursing is essential for the health policy makers in each country and iran is not an exception. the aim of this study was to develop an instrument measuring the influential factors on career choice among iranian nursing students. materials and methods: this methodological study employed both qualitative and quantitative ap...

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...

Truthful revelation of preferences has emerged as a desideratum in the design of school choice programs. Gale-Shapley’s deferred acceptance mechanism is strategy-proof for students but limits their ability to communicate their preference intensities. This results in ex-ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are broken randomly. We propose a variant of deferred acceptance mechanism wh...

This paper is an updated version of the paper \Discrete choice models with multiplicative error terms" by Fosgerau and Bierlaire (2006). We propose a multiplicative speci cation of a discrete choice model that renders choice probabilities independent of the scale of the utility. The scale can thus be random with unspeci ed distribution. The model mostly outperforms the classical additive formul...

The paper considers decision contexts in which the set of alternatives from which choices have to be made (the 'menu ' ) may convey information about the desirability of these alternatives. Our analysis is motivated by the fact fl~at in specifying an appropriate description of a choice situation an outside observer always has to neglect some 'dimensions ' of the decision problem. The central cl...