Spending adaptation money wisely

Getting from choosing wisely to spending wisely.

It is intuitively true that the most just ways of reducing health care costs are to reduce unnecessary tests and interventions and improve the efficiency of care. Neither of these imperils outcomes (and may improve many) nor involves restricting care (and developing efficient care may require expansion of overall care). The first activity comes under the aegis of reducing waste, and the second,...

Spending money to save money.

t is a challenging time to be taking up the reins of Sexually Transmitted Infections. After a prolonged period of decline, there are epidemics of bacterial STIs in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, including outbreaks of syphilis. HIV continues to escalate; the prevalence of HIV is escalating due to persistent or rising incidence combined with increased survival. Globally we face major epi...

Saving money by spending more.

Spending Wisely? How Resources Affect Knowledge Production in Universities

Every year billions of dollars are spent on research grants to produce new knowledge in universities. However, as grants may also affect other research funding the effects of financial resources on knowledge production remains unclear. To uncover how financial resources affect knowledge production we study the effects of research spending itself. Utilizing the legal constraints on university sp...

Spending money on others promotes happiness.

Although much research has examined the effect of income on happiness, we suggest that how people spend their money may be at least as important as how much money they earn. Specifically, we hypothesized that spending money on other people may have a more positive impact on happiness than spending money on oneself. Providing converging evidence for this hypothesis, we found that spending more o...