"cost behavior" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the manner in which costs change in response to various factors. For example, you might say, "We studied cost behavior to determine how changes to production output affected the cost of materials."
"This irrational secrecy at any cost behaviour leads us to ask what on earth is this government trying to hide?
That is, push measures were particularly perceived as unacceptable when: (1) they targeted high cost behaviour, and (2) when a weak social norm was experienced.
Results of a mixed 2 × 2 × 2 subjects design among 123 participants showed that pull measures were evaluated as more acceptable than push measures; and when environmental policies targeted high cost behaviour, participants evaluated policies as less acceptable than when low cost behaviour was targeted.
When a push measure targeted low cost behaviour or when it was clear that the majority of people supported this policy, the environmental policy was almost as acceptable as pull measures.
In addition to the well-known diseconomies of scale in the case of centralised sanitation, we find a similar generic cost behaviour for decentralised sanitation due to economies of density.
This study examined how policy characteristics (i.e. push versus pull measure and high versus low cost behaviour targeted) and social norms (i.e. strong versus weak social norms) influence the acceptability of environmental policies.
This paper aims to shed light 16 on low-cost price behaviour in the European context.
Although results reveal that 'feel-good' affect mostly drives low- rather than high-cost behaviour changes, harnessing people's intrinsic motivation to help the environment may be an underleveraged mechanism for promoting sustainability.
Taken together, our results suggest that female female mounting is a relatively low-cost behaviour that may be maintained in the population via selection on males.
As a case study, we reflect on a community-directed intervention in rural Gambia designed to reduce malaria by promoting a relatively simple and low-cost behaviour: repairing holes in mosquito bednets.
Adding low-cost behaviour change approaches, or integrating these into newly-developing initiatives, could maximise the health-promoting benefits of existing community resources.
