eprintid: 4972 rev_number: 22 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/49/72 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:07:58 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:15:47 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:07:58 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Kohler, H.-P. creators_id: 7449 title: Learning in Informal Networks: Contraceptive Choice and Other Technological Dynamics ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_inn internal_subjects: iis_mnt internal_subjects: iis_mod divisions: prog_ted abstract: This paper devises three formal models of 'learning in informal networks' to study the long term implications of word-of-mouth communications for the diffusion of contraceptive knowledge. The models differ in the information that is shared among network partners, and with respect to the sophistication of women's decision rules. The theoretical properties of these models are compared with empirical evidence based on the 1973 Korean survey on women's social networks and contraceptive choices. The analysis proposes a qualitative choice rule that models women's contraceptive decisions as an econometrician's problem to infer the differential quality of contraceptives from informal conversations. date: 1996-06 date_type: published publisher: WP-96-054 iiasapubid: WP-96-054 price: 10 creators_browse_id: 1380 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 38 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Kohler, H.-P. (1996). Learning in Informal Networks: Contraceptive Choice and Other Technological Dynamics. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-054 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4972/1/WP-96-054.pdf