Humans restrain self-interest with moral and social values. They are the only species known to exhibit reciprocal fairness, which implies the punishment of other individuals' unfair behaviors, even if it hurts the punisher's economic self-interest. Reciprocal fairness has been demonstrated in the Ultimatum Game, where players often reject their bargaining partner's unfair offers. Despite progre...

This study proposes to rethink malaria economic analysis by combining economic epidemiology tools with the poverty trap literature. The endogeneity of malaria with respect to households and individuals socioeconomic characteristics and choices remains a particularly relevant and unresolved issue. In spite of massive efforts to generalize efficient prevention (such as ITNs), malaria remains prev...

An empirical work is described which compares the optimization levels produced by a group of economic agents versus those of a similar group of economic agents which additionally employ a genetic algorithm (GA) to attain a higher level of optimization. The problem domain is multimodal. It incorporates multiple hard and soft constraints and dynamical behaviors. It also has areas of infeasibility...

This paper deals with the identification of effective entrepreneurial behaviors in hostile environments. Extant contributions argue that entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon, which needs to be addressed in a multidimensional perspective (i.e. strategic posture, behavioral attitudes, economic performance, and so forth). Drawing from fifteen streams of research in the entrepreneurship domain,...

Background and Aim: The pandemic of coronavirus can be considered as one of the most important issues in the world in the last two years. Undoubtedly, reducing the outbreak of coronavirus requires preventive behaviors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of preventive behaviors of people and its relationship with demographic and socio-economic variables. Materials and Metho...