Open AccessEvaluating reproductive decisions as discrete choices under social influence
Author(s) -
R. Alexander Bentley,
William A. Brock,
Camila Caiado,
Michael J. O’Brien
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2015.0154
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , fertility , heuristic , computer science , reproductive health , diagram , horizontal axis , psychology , econometrics , social psychology , cognitive psychology , economics , mathematics , statistics , artificial intelligence , population , engineering , demography , sociology , computer security , structural engineering
Discrete choice, coupled with social influence, plays a significant role in evolutionary studies of human fertility, as investigators explore how and why reproductive decisions are made. We have previously proposed that the relative magnitude of social influence can be compared against the transparency of pay-off, also known as the transparency of a decision, through a heuristic diagram that maps decision-making along two axes. The horizontal axis represents the degree to which an agent makes a decision individually versus one that is socially influenced, and the vertical axis represents the degree to which there is transparency in the pay-offs and risks associated with the decision the agent makes. Having previously parametrized the functions that underlie the diagram, we detail here how our estimation methods can be applied to real-world datasets concerning sexual health and contraception
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