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Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2001)
A sample of almost 500 jury-eligible citizens considered a series of experimental
situations involving accidents. The juror sample did not properly apply negligence
rules, as their errors were particularly great for ...
The Challenge of Punitive Damages Mathematics
(The Journal of Legal Studies, 2001)
Proposals to provide juries with specific numerical instructions for setting punitive damages should bring greater rationality to punitive damages awards. This approach is tested using evidence from 353 jury-eligible ...
Cigarette Smokers as Job Risk Takers
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001)
Using a large data set, the authors find that smokers select riskier jobs, but receive lower total wage compensation for risk than do nonsmokers. This finding is inconsistent with conventional models of compensating ...