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    Job Matching and Women's Wage-Tenure Profile 

    Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Reagan, Patricia B. (Applied Economics, 1994)
    Recently, researchers have challenged the validity of the dominant theories of wage growth, claiming that the observed positive relation between wages and tenure is an artefact of omitted job match quality. In sharp contrast ...
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    Allocating Responsibility for the Failure of Global Warming Policies 

    Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (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 ...
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    "New and Improved" Estimates of Qualification Discrimination 

    Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Stone, Joe A. (Joe Allan), 1948- (Southern Economic Journal, 1985)
    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 ...
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    Male-Female Differences in Hourly Wages: The Role of Human Capital, Working Conditions, and Housework 

    Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991)
    This study uses a new data set from a 1986 survey of workers to examine simultaneously the wage effects of human capital, household responsibilities, working conditions, and on-the-job training. The analysis suggests that ...
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    Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability After Calabresi 

    Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Law & Contemporary Problems, 2014)
    Calabresi’s theory of tort liability (1961) as a risk distribution mechanism established insurance as an objective of tort liability. Calabresi’s risk-spreading concept of tort has provided the impetus for much of the ...
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    Law and Economics as a Pillar of Legal Education 

    Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Review of Law and Economics, 2012)
    This paper reports the distribution of doctoral degrees in economics and in other fields among faculty at the 26 highest ranked law schools. Almost one-third of professors at the top 13 law schools have a Ph.D. degree, ...
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    Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height 

    Hersch, Joni, 1956- (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 ...
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    Skin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Pay 

    Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Emory Law Journal, 2008)
    In "Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height," (Journal of Labor Economics 2008), I present strong evidence of a wage penalty to darker skin color among new legal immigrants to the United ...
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    Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking 

    Viscusi, W. Kip; Del Rossi, Alison F.; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (2015-12-17)
    Voters' preferences for smoking restrictions in restaurants, bars, malls, indoor sporting events, and hospitals are consistent with state-level restrictions on smoking in each of these public areas. This analysis is based ...
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    Saving Lives Through Punitive Damages 

    Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Southern California Law Review, 2010)
    This Article proposes that the value of statistical life ("VSL ") be used to set the total damages amount needed for deterrence when punitive damages are warranted in wrongful death cases. The appropriate level of total ...
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    Viscusi, W. Kip (11)O'Connell, Jeffrey (2)Stratton, Leslie S. (2)Bullock, Blair Druhan (1)Del Rossi, Alison F. (1)Moran, Beverly I. (1)Reagan, Patricia B. (1)Stone, Joe A. (Joe Allan), 1948- (1)SubjectPay equity -- United States (4)Discrimination in employment -- United States (2)Exemplary damages -- United States (2)Housekeeping -- United States (2)Human skin color -- Economic aspects (2)Labor productivity (2)Law and economics (2)Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- United States (2)Payment -- United States (2)Smoking -- Law and legislation -- United States -- States (2)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2015 (8)2000 - 2009 (13)1990 - 1999 (8)1985 - 1989 (2)
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