When random assignment fails: Some lessons from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment

Happiness and Myopia: Evidence from a Random-Assignment Experiment

Myopia—time preference—has been shown to be commonplace and is believed to lead to a series of negative outcomes, such as overconsumption and addiction. Yet, little is known about the determinants of myopia. Using a random-assignment experiment, we investigate whether happiness decreases myopia. Subjects are randomly assigned to receive a happyor neutral-affect inducement. Immediately following...

The Heterogeneity of Spouse Abuse: A Review

Some Things That Can Happen When the Minimum Principle Fails

Most analysts feel about scalar valued, linear heat flows the way they do about their grandparents: they are stable, reliable, but dull. To a large extent, the origin of their stability is the minimum principle, which says that the flow preserves non-negativity. In this lecture, I will describe some examples of what can happen when one introduces boundary conditions which destroy the minimum pr...

prevalence of spouse abuse and some affecting factors among women

background: violence against women is one of the social difficulties all over the world that has negative effects on other health prioritization such as mothers health، family planning and mental health. the purpose of this study was determining of the prevalence rate of spouse abuse and some affecting factors among women in arak city. methods: an analytical and cross-sectional research was car...

Spouse Abuse & Marital System Based on Enrich

This study examined spouse abuse from the ecological perspective using the data from a national sample of 20,951 couples that took the ENRICH couple inventory. ENRICH assessed three ecological areas –contextual and socio-cultural factors; individual traits and behaviors; and couple interaction processes. Using the ENRICH couple typology, devitalized couples had the highest level of abuse while ...