The Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) is one of two inventories operationalizing John L. Holland’s person-environment fit theory. The other inventory, the Self-Directed Search, is intended to simulate the vocational guidance experience, whereas the VPI is intended to be a personality-interest inventory. The item content of the VPI consists of 160 occupational titles. Respondents choose either
Decision making is a fact of life, both for individuals and for policy makers acting on behalf of society. All decisions result in costs and benefits. The purpose of economic evaluation is to compare these and determine whether the costs of a policy are justified by the benefits. Economic evaluations comprise two steps. First, a
Preference Reversals Definition Preference reversals refer to the observation that there are systematic changes in people’s preference order between options. Preference order refers to an abstract relation between two options. It is assumed that when an individual is presented with options A and B, he or she either prefers A to B or prefers B