“Deregulation is so nineteen eighties, we’re into ‘better regulation’ now”

New antiplatelet agents: are we better off now than we were with aspirin?

Time is now: recruitment into rebel organizations

Recent literature has pointed at the importance of (changes) in the economic environment for the understanding of conflict dynamics. Two channels, negative income shocks on the one hand and the presence of exportable commodities on the other hand are considered as drivers of conflict. This paper studies these two channels with a new fifteen-year panel of community level data on Burundi. We find...

Why is health care regulation so complex?

of external supervision of this field. Policy debates, for the most part, swirl not around whether oversight should exist but, instead, around the way it should be structured. However, the present regulatory structure is neither uniform nor consistent. A broad range of regulatory bodies and programs apply in different ways to various aspects of the industry. Health care regulations are develope...

Regulation, Deregulation, and Happiness

O10: Why Preschool Education Programs Is So Important

Neurological development is largely a result of the learning that takes place starting at birth and during the earliest years of life. Child Care and Preschool Education Programs are key to predicting ultimate success in school and life. Children who attend preschool or other early education programs have enhanced cognitive, verbal, and social development (which is maintained into the first few...