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Utility Functions that Depend on Health Status: Estimates and Economic Implications
(The American Economic Review, 1990)
Taylor's series and logarithmic estimates of health state-dependent utility functions
both imply that job injuries reduce one's utility and marginal utility of income, thus rejecting the monetary loss equivalent formulation. ...
Quantum Leap: A Black Woman Uses Legal Education to Obtain Her Honorary White Pass
(Berkeley Women's Law Journal, 1990)
The nature of privilege is that it is hidden from those who possess it even more than it is hidden from those who lack privilege. Privilege's invisibility to its owner makes privilege difficult to both identify and fight.
Treatment of the Mentally Disabled: Rethinking the Community-First Idea
(Nebraska Law Review, 1990)
In the past several decades the treatment, habilitation and education of the mentally disabled has been heavily influenced by what could be called the "community-first" movement. This movement which encompasses such ...
Effectiveness of the EPA's Regulatory Enforcement: The Case of Industrial Effluent Standards
(Journal of Law and Economics, 1990)
The EPA water pollution regulations-the focus of this study represent an interesting departure from past patterns of regulatory failure. First, the nature of the regulations-discharge limits-relates directly to the policy ...
The Enterprise Zone Concept at the Federal Level: Are Proposed Tax Incentives the Needed Ingredient?
(Virginia Tax Review, 1990)
This article examines the concept of enterprise zones in the United States. Part II explores this concept from an historical perspective: first, the conceptual origins of the enterprise zone systein and how it made its way ...
Sources of Inconsistency in Societal Responses to Health Risks
(The American Economic Review, 1990)
Society has until recently devoted insufficient attention to the long-run environmental problems that we face, including acid rain and the greenhouse effect. Our inaction with respect to these risks can hardly be characterized ...
Hedonic Damages for Wrongful Death: Are Tortfeasors Getting Away with Murder?
(Georgetown Law Journal, 1990)
This note argues that to deter negligent behavior adequately, tortfeasors should be held liable for what may be the most substantial cost they impose on accident victims-"hedonic damages," or the loss of the value of life ...
Employment Discrimination: An Overview of the 1989 Supreme Court Term
(Law & Inequality, 1990)
Many of you have seen or heard in the media much discussion about last term's employment discrimination cases. Indeed, last term there was an extraordinary amount of activity in the Supreme Court on employment discrimination. ...
Do Smokers Underestimate Risks?
(Journal of Political Economy, 1990)
This paper uses a national survey of 3,119 individuals to examine the effect of lung cancer risk perceptions on smoking activity. Both smokers and nonsmokers greatly overestimate the lung cancer risk of cigarette smoking, ...
The Eleventh Amendment and Stare Decisis: Overruling Hans v. Louisiana
(The University of Chicago Law Review, 1990)
There is currently a dispute raging about the meaning of the Eleventh Amendment, which protects states from suits in federal court. The language of that amendment appears to deny federal jurisdiction only over suits brought ...