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An agent-based model of school choice with information asymmetries
(2019)
Going from a neighbourhood-based to a choice-based system of school selection can have positive effects on enrolment in higher achievement schools, increasing average student achievement. We develop an Agent-Based model ...
On the road to social mobility? affirmative action and major choice
(2019-06-14)
Around the world, students from a disadvantaged background are underrepresented in prestigious and lucrative fields of study, such as medicine and STEM. We know little about whether universities can affect individuals' ...
Women's letters from the Chilean Nitrate Era: address choice, emotions and patriarchal reciprocity
(WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH, 2021)
Conhecimento metacognitivo e diferentes momentos da escolha: compreendendo o processo da escolha profissional e suas relações com componentes metacognitivos
(Universidade Federal de São CarlosUFSCarPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia - PPGPsiCâmpus São Carlos, 2021-04-01)
Professional choice is characterized as a process that concerns the construction of the occupational trajectory of individuals and can occur throughout life, including the transitions that may arise along this trajectory. ...
Job Preferences of Nurses and Midwives for Taking Up a Rural Job in Peru: A Discrete Choice Experiment
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background: Robust evidence on interventions to improve the shortage of health workers in rural areas is needed. We assessed stated factors that would attract short-term contract nurses and midwives to work in a rural area ...
Eating contexts determine the efficacy of nutrient warning labels to promote healthy food choices
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023)
Introduction: Unhealthy food choices increase the risk of obesity and its co-morbidities. Nutrition labels are a public health policy that aims to drive individuals toward healthier food choices. Chile has been an example ...
Female tawny-bellied seedeaters do not prefer more colorful males in choice experiments
(Springer Tokyo, 2013-09)
Plumage coloration has long been studied as a sexually selected character. The tawny-bellied seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha, is a sexually dichromatic species, with adult males the more colorful sex and juvenile males ...
Choosing a Secondary School
(Daily Express, 2008)
This article discusses a research study undertaken in Trinidad and Tobago on the secondary school choice process