Law and Business

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U.S.-Soviet Trade in the 1980s — Jan 1, 1987

Judged by either absolute or relative size, trade with the Soviet Union is not quantitatively significant for any country in the Western world, except Finland.

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Essays on Economic Policy and Foreign Policy — Jan 1, 1987

Contains eleven "op-ed" essays that originally appeared, sometimes in slightly abbreviated form, in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post from April 1985 to March 1987.

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Punitive Damages: Empirical Findings — Jan 1, 1987

Based on cases that reached jury verdict in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, from 1960 to 1984, this report presents analytically derived answers to questions surrounding the award of punitive damages.

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Posttrial Adjustments to Jury Awards — Jan 1, 1987

Motivated by national debate on the growth of jury awards, this report examines how jury awards change after trial. It considers not just tort actions, but all civil suits for money damages.

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Expanding Options for Criminal Sentencing — Jan 1, 1987

Describes a number of new programs that have been developed nationwide in response to crowding in prisons and jails.

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Assessing the Effects of Tort Reforms — Jan 1, 1987

This report offers a framework for assessing the effects of tort reforms. It attempts to provide a coherent structure for systematically thinking about how research can contribute to the policy debate over tort reform.

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Research Brief

Soviet Behavior in International Financial Markets — Jan 1, 1987

The Soviet Union enjoys a good name in international credit markets, and hidden borrowing is probably minimal. As the Soviets enter the Euronote market, however, current reporting requirements may not capture debt issues and unobserved lending.

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Tort Reform...How Will We Know Whether It "Worked"? A Summary of Research Results, 1987 — Jan 1, 1987

New data collection systems must be put into place before we can know how soon to expect changes, whether tort reform influenced outcomes, and whether tort reform affected economic behavior or injuries.

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Opening the Black Box of Civil Jury Behavior: A Summary of Research Results, 1987 — Jan 1, 1987

Drawing on social and cognitive psychology and on criminal jury research, Robert MacCoun outlines approaches that can provide data essential to legislative and judicial policymakers who seek to understand how civil juries arrive at decisions.

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Journal Article

Setting Standards of Performance for Program Evaluations: The Case of the Teaching Hospital General Medicine Group Practice Program — Jan 1, 1986

Program evaluation is like research in its use of the scientific method.

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Journal Article

Medicare Capitation and Quality of Care for the Frail Elderly — Jan 1, 1986

Previous studies have shown that the quality of care provided in health maintenance organizations (HMO's) is either similar or better than that in fee-for-service settings; however, few studies have included sufficiently large numbers of older persons.

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Evaluation of the Effects on the Quality of Care of Selected Alternatives for Paying Physicians Under the Medicare Program — Jan 1, 1986

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Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans — Jan 1, 1986

Examines geographic variation in the rate of inappropriate hospitalization and the effect of cost sharing on that rate. The medical records of 1132 adults hospitalized in a randomized trial of health insurance plans were reviewed by two physicians who were blinded to the patients' insurance plan.

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Termination of Medi-Cal Benefits: A Follow-Up Study One Year Later — Jan 1, 1986

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Changing Physician Payment for Medicare Patients: Projected Effects on the Quality of Care — Jan 1, 1986

Congress and the Reagan Administration, in an effort to contain costs, are considering changes in the way physicians are paid when they care for Medicare patients.

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Work Satisfaction and Career Aspirations of Internists Working in Teaching Hospital Group Practices — Jan 1, 1986

This paper presents data on the characteristics, work activities, job-related stress, work satisfaction, and career aspirations of 150 faculty and 595 housestaff physicians who regularly provide continuous primary care in 15 teaching hospital-based group practices.

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Evaluation of Ambulatory Care Training by Graduates of Internal Medicine Residencies — Jan 1, 1986

In 1984, 154 physicians who had completed residencies in internal medicine at 15 major teaching hospitals in 1982 evaluated their residency training in ambulatory care.

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Comparison of Health Outcomes at Health Maintenance Organization with Those of Fee-for-Service Care — Jan 1, 1986

This research sought to determine whether health outcomes in a health maintenance organisation (HMO) differed from those in the fee-for-service (FFS) system.

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Dental Insurance and the Oral Health of Preschool Children — Jan 1, 1986

Using data from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment, the effects of cost-sharing plans on the health of the primary teeth in 264 children aged 3 to 5 years were investigated.

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Job Mobility and the Careers of Young Men — Jan 1, 1986

The authors study the process of job change among young men and consider those characteristics of workers and firms that make for lasting employment relationships.

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