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Economic Costs of Inadequate Water and Sanitation: South Tarawa, Kiribati
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
The inadequate water supply and sanitation situation in South Tarawa has contributed to high rates of water … supply and sanitation infrastructure and ongoing operations and maintenance in South Tarawa, in part, as a result of low cost … estimate the total economic costs associated with inadequate water and sanitation services in South Tarawa. …
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Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations
Diekmann, Andreas; Przepiorka, Wojtek; Rauhut, Heiko - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2011
Norm violations can be contagious. Previous research analyzed two mechanisms of why knowledge about others’ norm violations triggers its spread: (1) Actors lower their subjective beliefs about the probability or severity of punishment, or (2) they condition their compliance on others’...
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Bangladesh: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Poverty remains high at 43 percent of the population subsist on less than United States (U.S.) $1.25 per day (2010). Bangladesh achieved several millennium development goal (MDG) targets in education, health, and poverty...
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Advancing Cervical Cancer Prevention in India: Insights from Research and Programs
Krishnan, Suneeta; Madsen, Emily; Porterfield, Deborah; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among … of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000 by 2025. Despite the considerable burden of cervical cancer … morbidity and mortality in India, there are few large-scale, organized cervical cancer prevention programs in the country. We …
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Boundedly Rational Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks: Does Indegree Matter?
Battiston, Pietro; Stanca, Luca - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2015
This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social in uence in directed communication networks. We study the theoretical properties of a boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive from their neighbors by using weights that are a...
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Local Convergence and Global Diversity: From Interpersonal to Social Influence
Flache, Andreas; Macy, Michael W. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 55 (2011) 6, pp. 970-955
How can minority cultures resist assimilation into a global monolith in an increasingly "small world"? Paradoxically, Axel rod found that local convergence can actually preserve global diversity if cultural influence is combined with homophily, the principle that "likes attract." However,...
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How Peer Influence Affects Attribute Preferences: A Bayesian Updating Mechanism
Narayan, Vishal; Rao, Vithala R.; Saunders, Carolyne - In: Marketing Science 30 (2011) 2, pp. 368-384
We study how multiattribute product choices are affected by peer influence. We propose a two-stage conjoint-based approach to examine three behavioral mechanisms of peer influence. We find that when faced with information on peer choices, consumers update their attribute preferences in a...
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Transition to Parenthood: The Role of Social Interaction and Endogenous Networks
Diaz, Belinda; Fent, Thomas; Prskawetz, Alexia; … - In: Demography 48 (2011) 2, pp. 559-579
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Simulating the Effect of Social Influence on Decision-Making in Small, Task-Oriented, Groups
Wilson, Roy - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10 (2007) 4, pp. 4-4
This paper describes a simulation study of decision-making. It is based on a model of social influence in small, task-oriented, groups. A process model of dyadic social influence is built on top of a dynamic model of status and task participation that describes the emergence of a stable power...
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Network models for social influence processes
Robins, Garry; Pattison, Philippa; Elliott, Peter - In: Psychometrika 66 (2001) 2, pp. 161-189
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