Most longitudinal surveys recontact households only if they are still living in the same dwelling, producing very high attrition rates, especially in developing countries where rural–urban migration is prevalent. In this paper, we discuss the implications of the various follow-up rules used in...

After a few centuries of speeding up, the distribution of GNP’s growth rates has widely changed all round the world. Growth is slowing down in advanced countries and has accelerated in emerging countries. Moreover growth is questioned as a matter of principle. Considering the vast array of...

The consideration of the competition in the spatial construction of the new entrant’s retailing network The aim of this paper is to show in which measure the consideration of the location of networks’ competitors can be very important for a retailer to build spatially its own retailing...

This research examines the place of intuition in the decision making process. Our research is an action research on pluridisciplinary teams (called EMS) working in five local authorities to allocate “personalized allowance for autonomy” [APA]. The intuition supports a fast decision-making,...

This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

This article intends to understand the mechanisms underlying the receiver reactions towards a taboo advertising stimulus. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted in two different cultural contexts. This study reveals the importance of the normative social influence and the ambivalent...