To be effective, criminal justice policies should affect the underlying social norms for which the policies were enacted. This study sought to determine whether public perceptions of criminal justice policies on domestic violence affected social norms. Two waves of data were collected via a telephone survey where a random probability sample of 973 residents was drawn from 4 communities. A struc...

Using data from China’s public debt markets, we study the value of corporate reputation and how it interacts with legal cultural forces to assure accountability. Exploring lawsuits that change reputation, find firms involved in experience a decrease bond values tightening borrowing terms. heterogeneities social capital environments across Chinese provinces, effects are more pronounced for priva...

background health is a complex phenomenon that can be studied from different approaches. despite a growing research in the areas of social determinants of health (sdh) and health equity, effects of macroeconomic policies on the social aspect of health are unknown in developing countries. this study aimed to determine the effect of macroeconomic policies on increasing of the social-health inequa...

Electronic Health Records (EHR) promise improvement for patient care and also offer great value for biomedical research including clinical, public health, and health services research. Unfortunately, the full potential of EHR big data research has remained largely unrealized. The purpose of this study was to identify rate limiting factors, and develop recommendations to better balance unrestric...