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(Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1991)
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(Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991)Litigation over product liability has escalated because of shifting liability standards, and the role of workers' compensation has increased both because of the changing injury mix and the provision of more generous benefit ...
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(American Economic Association, 2012)Society has several institutional mechanisms that promote the control of product health and safety risks and compensation of the income losses that these risks generated. For risks traded in the market, economic forces at ...
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(The Journal of Legal Studies, 1988)The recent law and economics literature has directed much energy toward identifying the various factors that determine whether parties will litigate or settle accident claims.' The substantive interest in this area rests ...
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(The Journal of Political Economy, 1993)Product liability ideally should promote efficient levels of product safety, but misdirected liability efforts may depress beneficial innovations. This paper examines these competing effects of liability costs on product ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Jacobs (1969) argues that uncompensated knowledge spillovers have played a crucial role in population agglomeration and thus in the generation of cities. We explore this idea formally by extending the Romer (1986) model ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2017)How much will our budget be cut be this year? This question has loomed ominously over regulatory agencies for over three decades. After the 2016 presidential election, it now stands front and center in federal policy, with ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCancer metastasis, the spread of cancer to a secondary organ, mainly occurs by tumor cells detaching from the primary site and traveling in the bloodstream. High levels of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are associated with ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: Science, Communication and ChemistryWith the rise of sharing science online through social media platforms, scientists, science educators, and communicators have turned to become producers of science videos. Based on science filmmaking practices and online ...
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(2015-07-31)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three chapters investigating topics on international trade and immigration in China. In the first chapter, which is a joint work with Joel Rodrigue, Yong Tan and Chunhai Yu, we studies ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)We use data from the manuscript census of manufacturing to estimate the effects of the length of the working day on output and wages. We find that the elasticity of output with respect to daily hours was positive but less ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)In this paper we examine the behavior of a firm that produces a product with a privately-observed safety attribute; that is, consumers cannot observe directly the product¬πs safety. The firm may, at a cost, disclose its ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-10-19)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(2021-08-08)The Laundromat Project (The LP) is an arts-based non-profit organization that is deeply committed to providing professional development and leadership training opportunities for their staff members. However, leadership ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-04)