From Adjusting to Rebuilding Police Institutions

Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions in Post-Conflict Countries -- December 10, 2004

Title: Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police

Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India collaborated with researchers at US and Ind...

Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police

Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India collaborated with researchers at US and Ind...

Adjusting insulin doses: from knowledge to decision.

The aim of this study was to analyze the absence of adjustment of insulin doses in type 1 diabetic patients with poorly controlled diabetes. Twenty-eight patients (HbA(1)c higher than 8.5% during the last 6 months, performing at least three capillary blood glucose determinations per day), completed a questionnaire on the degree of confidence in their own knowledge, the nature of their health be...

Rebuilding Neuroaesthetics from the Ground Up

Introduction One of the most remarkable features of the human mind is its capacity for aesthetic appreciation. In the visual modality, aesthetics can be defined as the ability to derive pleasure from arrangements of colors, forms and patterns. This piece of our psychology acts in subtle ways, but it nonetheless plays an extremely consequential role in many people's lives. The sense of aesthetic...