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Medical Malpractice Insurance in the Wake of Liability Reform
(The Journal of Legal Studies, 1995)
This article examines the effect of the liability reforms on medical malpractice insurance over the 1984-91 period. This is the first study to use data by firm and by state for every firm writing medical malpractice insurance ...
Workers' Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(The American Economic Review, 1995)
This paper examines the effect of workers' compensation on time out of work. It
introduces a "natural experiment" approach of comparing individuals injured
before and after increases in the maximum weekly benefit amount. ...
Carcinogen Regulation: Risk Characteristics and the Synthetic Risk Bias
(AEA Papers and Proceedings, 1995)
In this paper, I will explore the decision to regulate natural and synthetic chemicals. To what extent are regulatory decisions driven by the severity of the risk as opposed to the character of the risk exposure? The ...
Rates of Time Preference and Consumer Valuations of Automobile Safety and Fuel Efficiency
(Journal of Law and Economics, 1995)
This article estimates hedonic price models for automobiles using a data set on almost 3,000 households from the U.S. Department of Energy Residential Transportation Energy Consumption Survey. The standard hedonic models ...