The density conundrum: does legislation help or hurt?

Does bribery help or hurt firm growth around the world?

Does bribery help or hurt firm growth? Some suggest that bribery greases the wheel of commerce, while others believe that bribery sands the wheel of growth. We argue that firms endogenously choose their level of bribery according to their environments and that the benefits and costs may differ for different types of bribery. Specifically, small firms are more likely to be forced to engage in br...

Emotion Regulation and Self-Regulation 1 Running Head: Emotion Regulation and Self-Regulation Does Emotion Regulation Help or Hurt Self-Regulation?

Principles of cognitive science in education: the effects of generation, errors, and feedback.

Principles of cognitive science hold the promise of helping children to study more effectively, yet they do not always make successful transitions from the laboratory to applied settings and have rarely been tested in such settings. For example, self-generation of answers to questions should help children to remember. But what if children cannot generate anything? And what if they make an error...

Does the Accountable Care Act Aim to Promote Quality, Health, and Control Costs or Has It Missed the Mark? ;Comment on “Health System Reform in the United States”

McDonough’s perspective on healthcare reform in the US provides a clear, coherent analysis of the mix of access and delivery reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare. As noted by McDonough, this major reform bill is designed to expand access for health coverage that includes both prevention and treatment benefits among uninsured Americans. Additionally, this legislation includes s...

مفهوم منفعت عمومی و جایگاه آن در قانونگذاری ایران

Public interest is one of the multifaceted concepts in the social sciences. In a simple definition, this concept includes things that are beneficial to the masses of people and benefit everyone. The importance of public interest is so far as it has been able to transform intellectual thinking into the concept of state. Accordingly, the government refers to organizations that apply power to prov...