nature of decision making in such marriages. Therefore, we know very little about the efficacy of traditional methods of … decision making in arranged marriages. Given this state of affairs, I have three goals in this paper. First, I formalize the … traditional decision making process in arranged marriages. Second, I study the characteristics of this formalized decision making …

The notion of a reservation quality or utility is a key feature of Batabyal’s (2003a) recent analysis of decision … decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent’s reservation utility as … making in arranged marriages. In this model, the magnitude of the reservation utility has a non-trivial impact on the …

The notion of a reservation quality or utility is a key feature of Batabyal's (2003a) recent analysis of decision … decision to accept or decline a marriage proposal. Even so, Batabyal (2003a) treats the marrying agent's reservation utility as … making in arranged marriages. In this model, the magnitude of the reservation utility has a non-trivial impact on the …

nature of decision making in such marriages. Therefore, we know very little about the efficacy of traditional methods of … decision making in arranged marriages. Given this state of affairs, I have three goals in this paper. First, I formalize the … traditional decision making process in arranged marriages. Second, I study the characteristics of this formalized decision making …

We analyze the medical decision-making process, first from the perspective of a patient and then from the perspective … of a health care provider. Using a decision-tree, we describe the different actions a mother can take to treat her … different socioeconomic variables influence the mother's decision making process. With regard to the health care provider, we …

Recently, Batabyal (1999) has shown that when the decision to get married in an arranged marriage is analyzed in an … a marrying agent uses the following decision rule: Get married as long as the quality of a marriage proposal exceeds a … probability of getting married with this decision rule is always positive. Even so, we point out that on average, an agent who …

expected utility of a marrying agent when this agent uses, respectively, time invariant and time variant decision rules. Third … to the nature of decision making in such marriages. Therefore, very little is known about the impacts of alternate … decision rules on the spouse selection question in arranged marriages. Given this state of affairs, our paper has three …