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Regulatory Economics in the Courts: An Analysis of Judge Scalia's NHTSA Bumper Decision
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1987)
The automobile bumper standard issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 1982 was the product of a decade of policy debate.' This debate continued in the courts until ultimately the NHTSA ...
The Structure and Enforcement of Job Safety Regulation
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986)
For more than a decade, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has been regulating the technology and work
practices of employers. This governmental function is relatively new and is
quite different ...
Informational Regulation of Consumer Health Risks: An Empirical Evaluation of Hazard Warnings
(The RAND Journal of Economics, 1986)
On the basis of data from a survey of almost 400 consumers, this article assesses whether consumer behavior is responsive to information about product hazards that is provided in response to regulation. We find that the ...
Product Liability Litigation With Risk Averson
(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 ...
Alternative Approaches to Valuing the Health Impacts of Accidents: Liability Law and Prospective Evaluations
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1983)
The task of valuing accidental injuries and deaths is intrinsically difficult for two reasons. First, unlike standard consumer commodities, individual health is not traded explicitly on the market. It may be traded implicitly ...
Promoting Safety Through Workers' Compensation: The Efficacy and Net Wage Costs of Injury Insurance
(The RAND Journal of Economics, 1989)
This article explores the effects of workers' compensation on fatality rates and wages using the 1982 Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the new occupational fatality data issued by the National Institute for Occupational ...
The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation, 1973-1983
(Rand Journal of Economics, 1986)
Using a sample of manufacturing industries from 1973 to 1983, this article reexamines
OSHA's impact on workplace safety. Evidence supporting OSHA's effectiveness is stronger than that presented in most previous studies ...
Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Product Safety Regulation
(Journal of Law and Economics, 1985)
A recurring issue in the economic analysis of risk regulation agencies is whether these efforts have had any significant favorable effect on safety. Although the existence of such an effect would not necessarily imply that ...
Workers' Compensation: Wage Effects, Benefit Inadequacies, and the Value of Health Losses
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987)
Using the 1977 Quality of Employment Survey in conjunction with BLS risk series and state workers' compensation benefit formulas, the authors assess the labor market implications of workers' compensation. Higher levels of ...
Phosphates and the Environmental Free Lunch
(Regulation, 1984)
The environmental rationale for a detergent phosphate ban is straightforward enough.
Phosphates are pollutants because, ironically enough, they are biodegradable. In fact, living things thrive on them. Excessive phosphate ...