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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 ...
"New and Improved" Estimates of Qualification Discrimination
(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 ...
Financing a College Education: A Taxing Dilemma
(Ohio State Law Journal, 1989)
The cost of sending a child to college in the United States is rapidly increasing. As a result, the need for families to plan ahead to meet this cost has never been greater. Paramount in making those plans is the consideration ...
Sex Differences in Worker Quitting
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1980)
Although women quit more both overall and within major occupational groups than do men, this observation is not particularly informative due to the substantial heterogeneity of worker characteristics and job characteristics. ...
The Guilty But Mentally Ill Verdict
(George Washington Law Review, 1985)
The occasionally controversial consequences of the insanity defense,
epitomized by John Hinckley's acquittal, have recently
spawned a rash of legislative attempts to prevent similar outcomes
in future cases. Three states ...
Republican Citizenship in a Democratic Society
(Texas Law Review, 1988)
Amy Gutmann's Democratic Education might equally well be entitled Republican Education, for its central theme is how to produce true republican citizens-citizens who possess both the ability and the motivation
to participate ...
The Rutabaga That Ate Pittsburgh
(Virginia Law Review, 1986)
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first approved a field test of a bioengineered microbe, one EPA official remarked: "We're not expecting this to be the rutabaga that eats Pittsburgh.' But regulators
cannot ...