The predetermined choice set of each agent includes non-participation plus 6 job opportunities for each sector, yielding 169 job combinations for each couple.
While many people have a predetermined choice of vote, when it comes to the actual vote, when they are standing at the booth, alone with no one to judge them and complete anonymity, some will go with what they truly believe is right for them.
Overall, both models fit the observed data very well, and their estimated coefficients are found to be robust to alternative specifications of the predetermined choice-sets for the two spouses.
Overall, the literature reinforces that the mechanisms of peer influence towards smoking appear to be more covert and subtle, reflecting predetermined choices about fitting in, social approval, popularity, and autonomy [ 4, 25].
This means that households predetermine the choice of farmgate or market centre before realising the information available to them about these choices.
Switching from running a railway through a state body to a system of franchise contracts and regulations necessitates the civil service quickly acquiring specialised commercial nous.What the majority of the public servants do, how they do it, how many are needed and the skills they must have are predetermined by a choice of instruments made at a time and place often remote from them.
The referendum has been predetermined as a choice between two slightly different nightmare visions of a heavily corporate, disturbingly nationalist Britain.
In simulations such as these, the end results are predetermined by the choice of models and parameters.
Those that have, have tended to use differing approaches, with some including blood parameters (e.g., anaemia), clinical signs (e.g., hepatosplenomegaly) and complications (e.g., renal failure), or predetermining symptom choices, while others did not.
It is this in-group (which always necessitates an out-group) aspect of religion that so many of us find so off-putting, particularly the implication that you already know who your fiends (and enemies) are and that you social interactions should be predetermined by these choices.
In George's view, if I have no rational basis for picking one goal over another, then I have no free choice, only predetermined "passions" — the result of genetics, a blow to the head, whatever made me prefer either curing the sick or killing the Jews.
