In this paper, we focus on childbearing after the dissolution of the first marital union. The discussion of what drives fertility decisions after dissolution has been largely dominated by the arguments that: (a) people want to have a child as a way to achieve the adult status of parenthood (the "parenthood hypothesis"), and that (b) a shared child can signal the partners' commitment to each oth...

Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...

A commonly observed two-stage pricing strategy for a custom-made product involves a prepurchase entry fee for a potential consumer and a purchase price if he decides to buy the product. We solve and compare two settings: In the first, the firm does not commit in advance to the second-stage price and in the second, the firm does. We show that without a commitment mechanism, the two price points ...

Taking a grounded theory approach, this paper explores human resources (HR) Analytics legitimacy in three organisations over period of 3 years. The research aims to investigate (i) how the HR process presents and develops (ii) what decisions, activities, events can shape organisations. We draw on institutional industry creation literatures understand constitutes through three-dimensional perspe...

This paper presents a novel approach to solve the Multi-Area unit –commitment problem using a evolutionary programming technique. The objective of the Multi-Area unit commitment problem is to determine the optimal or a near optimal commitment strategy for generating units located in multiple areas that are interconnected via tie –lines and joint operation of generation resources can result in s...

Theoretical and empirical studies have generally weighed the effect of peer punishment and pool punishment for sanctioning free riders separately. However, these sanctioning mechanisms often pose a puzzling tradeoff between efficiency and stability in detecting and punishing free riders. Here, we combine the key aspects of these qualitatively different mechanisms in terms of evolutionary game t...

Non-malleability is an important security property of commitment schemes. The property means security against the man-in-the-middle attack, and it is defined and proved in the simulation paradigm using the corresponding simulator. Many known non-malleable commitment schemes have the common drawback that their corresponding simulators do not work in a straight-line manner, requires rewinding of ...

Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...

Over 1,000 U.S. Army officers responded to two surveys over a two-year period. Results indicated that mentoring was positively related to affective commitment and continuance commitment and negatively related to “turnover behavior.” The relationship with affective commitment was moderated by the conditions of mentorship (supervisory versus nonsupervisory) but not by the type of mentoring suppor...