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The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence
(Journal of Labor Economics, 1986)
Whereas previous analyses of criminal deterrence have focused on the effect of criminal enforcement on crime rates, this study analyzes the existence of compensating differentials for criminal pursuits. By analyzing the ...
Separation of Powers: Asking a Different Question
(Williamn and Mary Law Review, 1989)
What I find most intriguing about Professor Casper's essay1 is its historical description of the founders' attitude not so much toward "separation of powers," but toward separation of powers "questions." In other words, I ...
Interstate Pollution Control and Resource Development Planning: Outmoded Approaches or Outmoded Politics?
(Natural Resources Journal, 1988)
Arbitrary political boundaries are no barrier at all to the physical effects of pollution and resource development. Yet, despite the optimism that ushered in the heightened environmental consciousness of the past several ...
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 ...
The Implications of Prison Privatization on the Conduct of Prisoner Litigation Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1987)
Prisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of action brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for violations of their constitutional rights caused by the overall condition of their confinement or by one ...
Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling: Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers?
(American Economic Review, 1984)
A fundamental issue in the economics of uncertainty is how individuals process information and make choices under uncertainty. In a recent analysis of the findings on risk perception, Kenneth Arrow (1982) concluded that ...
Frameworks for Analyzing the Effects of Risk and Environmental Regulations on Productivity
(American Economic Association, 1983)
The existence of a negative relationship between the regulatory burden and capital
investments, and consequently productivity,is not controversial. A conventional model of
this type is developed in Section I. If, however, ...
The Lulling Effect: The Impact of Child-Resistant Packaging on Aspirin and Analgesic Ingestions
(AEA Papers and Proceedings, 1984)
In 1972 the Food and Drug Administration imposed a protective bottlecap requirement
on aspirin and other selected drugs. This regulation epitomizes the technological
approach to social regulation. The strategy for reducing ...
Gender Justice
(Constitutional Commentary, 1989)
GENDER JUSTICE is an avowedly liberal tract on the problems of gender discrimination in our society. It seeks to provide an alternative to the visions of both conservatives and radical feminists. The book fails in its ...