Understanding how policy settings affect developer decisions

How Does Monetary Policy Affect Household Income Distribution?

Over the last decades the research on monetary policy has largely concentrated on the impact of monetary authorities’ decisions on inflation and the fine-tuning of the macroeconomic, so that distributional effects of monetary policy which are non-trivial has been ignored. A view that has become increasingly popular since the financial crisis 2008 is that expansionary monetary policy can exacerb...

How Technology-Purchasing Decisions Are Really Made Understanding How Influence Networks Affect the Success of Major Technology-Purchasing Decisions

Understanding How Lifestyle Choices Affect Chronic Disease

Primary care doctors often treat patients with different cultural backgrounds and who have come from other countries. The immigrant population in the United States continues to grow and, in March 2003, there were 33.5 million people who were born in other countries (foreignborn) but were now living in the United States. Living conditions, income levels, and jobs deeply affect immigrant women at...

Understanding How First-year Seminars Affect Persistence

First-year seminars are nearly ubiquitous fixtures in American higher education, and research has documented their positive effect on student persistence. Only limited research, however, has attempted to isolate the impact of various aspects of firstyear seminars on persistence, especially on a cross-institutional basis. We use a survey of almost 20,000 first-year students at 45 four-year insti...

How Do Program Understanding Tools Affect How Programmers Understand Programs?

In this paper, we explore the question of whether program understanding tools enhance or change the way that programmers understand programs. The strategies that programmers use to comprehend programs vary widely. Program understanding tools should enhance or ease the programmer’s preferred strategies, rather than impose a fixed strategy that may not always be suitable. We present observations ...