The phrase "cause a negative effect" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when describing a change in a situation that had a negative outcome. For example, "The new policy caused a negative effect on working hours."
In this case, we're talking about a study that was actually intended to cause a negative effect in many people, and one open question is how destructive it was in the worst instances that might have occurred.
Although the varied stocking densities (SD) applied presently had no impact on the survival rate (SR), increasing the stocking density but within this safe range may still cause a negative effect on the bioeconomic mechanism.
Accordingly, agglomerated/aggregated nanoparticles cause a negative effect on the modulus of nanocomposites.
HAWTs are very sensitive to the changes in wind direction and to the turbulence phenomena which cause a negative effect on their energy performance.
A dose at lower potency could cause "a negative effect almost immediately," he says.
Raising the total phenolics content, however, may cause a negative effect on apparent quality of the fruit.
The increased C N ratio and the amount of inoculum yielded a positive effect while the increase of the temperature caused a negative effect on biodegradation.
The estimation of KS using the median method to estimate 1/KS was much better than the direct estimation of KS, causing a negative effect of non-linearity of KS in the kinetic equation.
This student loan overhang may be causing a negative effect on home buying, net worth growth, and even marriage and family formation.
The gap in depth between the assumed fault model and the true slab geometry causes a negative effect in the inversion results.
