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Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims
(American Law and Economics Review, 2007)
This article analyzes tort liability litigation costs using the Texas Department of Insurance Commercial Liability Insurance Closed Claim database for the years 1988–2004. Insurer costs to defend claims in which a suit was ...
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2007)
The early offer reform proposal for medical malpractice provides an option for claimants to receive prompt payment of all their net economic losses and reasonable attorney fees. Using a large sample of closed individual ...
Allocating Responsibility for the Failure of Global Warming Policies
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2007)
A recent series of climate change lawsuits has sought to mimic the "regulation through litigation" approach of the claims brought by the states against cigarette manufacturers. What is distinctive about the cigarette cases ...
Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height
(Journal of Labor Economics, 2008)
Using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this paper shows that skin color and height affect wages among new lawful immigrants to the U.S. controlling for education, English language proficiency, occupation in source ...
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2007)
The early offer reform proposal for medical malpractice provides an option for claimants to
receive prompt payment of all their net economic Losses and reasonable attorney fees. Using a Large sample of closed individual ...
Demand for a Jury Trial and the Selection of Cases for Trial
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2006)
This paper uses a unique data set to examine how parties in civil litigation choose whether
to demand a jury trial or to waive this right and whether trial forum influences the probability of trial versus settlement. ...
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 ...
Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2004)
This paper presents the first empirical anatysis that demonstrates that juries differ from judges in awarding punitive damages. Our review of punitive damages awards of $100 million or more identified 63 such awards, of ...
Household Specialization and the Male Marriage Wage Premium
(Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2000)
Empirical research has consistently shown that married men have substantially higher wages, on average, than otherwise similar unmarried men. One commonly cited hypothesis to explain this pattern is that marriage allows ...
Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market
(Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006)
This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in ...