Does Litigation Increase or Decrease Health Care Quality?

Hiv/aids: Does It Increase or Decrease Growth in Africa?

Infectious diseases matter greatly for Africa. Cross-country regressions for the 1990-97 period suggest that HIV/AIDS has reduced the rate of growth of Africa’s per capita income by 0.7 percentage points per year. For those African countries affected by malaria, growth was further lowered by 0.3 percentage points per year. Such reduction is large when compared with the historical growth of 0.4%...

Does natural selection increase or decrease variability at linked Loci.

Does self - consciousness increase or decrease priming effects ? It depends

Self-consciousness has been shown to both increase and decrease the magnitude of prime-to-behavior effects. In this paper, we decouple the facets of self-consciousness into internal state awareness and self-reflectiveness and show that self-consciousness can be associated with multiple influences on automatic behavior. Specifically, we conducted an experiment demonstrating that increased intern...

Does the Accountable Care Act Aim to Promote Quality, Health, and Control Costs or Has It Missed the Mark? ;Comment on “Health System Reform in the United States”

McDonough’s perspective on healthcare reform in the US provides a clear, coherent analysis of the mix of access and delivery reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare. As noted by McDonough, this major reform bill is designed to expand access for health coverage that includes both prevention and treatment benefits among uninsured Americans. Additionally, this legislation includes s...

Does Full Insurance Increase the Demand for Health Care?

We estimate the causal impact of having full health insurance on healthcare expenditures. We take advantage of a unique quasi-experimental setup in which deductibles and co-payments were zero in a managed care plan and nonzero in regular insurance, until a policy change forced all individuals with an active plan to cover a minimum amount of their expenses. Using panel data and a nonlinear diffe...