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Estimation of State-Dependent Utility Functions Using Survey Data
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)
Abstract-Surveys of individual's risk-dollar tradeoffs illuminate not only the local tradeoff rates but also can be used to address more fundamental questions about the structure of
utility functions. This largely unexplored ...
Age Variations in Risk Perceptions and Smoking Decisions
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)
Abstract-The results of a national survey of smoking risks and smoking behavior are analyzed. Smoking risk perceptions follow the expected patterns given age differences in risk information acquired and differences in ...
The Impact of Nonmarket Work on Market Wages
(American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 1991)
Oil Pollution Act of 1990: Opening a New Era in Federal and Texas Regulation of Oil Spill Prevention, Containment and Cleanup, and Liability
(South Texas Law Review, 1991)
This article assesses Congress' effort, through enactment of OPA, to meet the goals it stated in 1989. Part II provides an overview of the fragmented" condition of pre-OPA federal law addressing oil spills and an examination ...
World Without a Fourth Amendment
(UCLA Law Review, 1991)
The subject of this Article is suggested by a single question: How would we regulate searches and seizures if the Fourth Amendment did not exist? This question is a useful one to ask even leaving aside the possibility of ...
Is the Federal Government Suiting Up to Play in the Reform Game?
(Capital University Law Review, 1991)
A recent Louis Harris poll revealed that seventy-five percent of the American public believes that college athletics are a mess.' Certainly, if you had read such books as College Sports Inc. ,2 Undue Process,3 Major ...
Minority Law Teachers Conference
(Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 1991)
The 1990 Minority Law Teachers Conference was dedicated to expanding the number of minorities in law teaching. To this end, the volume addresses a wide variety of concerns for new and veteran teachers including: teaching, ...
The Plight of the Passive Past Owner: Defining the Limits of Superfund Liability
(Southwestern Law Journal, 1991)
These days, if you want to stir up high emotions in Congress, statehouses, corporate boardrooms or citizen group meetings, mention the word Superfund. That alias for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, ...
Choice of Law and Succession to Wealth: A Critical Analysis of the Ramifications of the Hague Convention on Succession to Decedents' Estates
(Virginia Journal of International Law, 1991)
The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons' is an exceptionally complex document with the avowed purpose of radically altering the choice of law rules in the succession field ...
Speaking of Virtue: A Republican Approach to University Regulation of Hate Speech
(Minnesota Law Review, 1991)
There is a disturbing new trend among American universities. Many universities, both public and private, are adopting regulations that punish what is commonly called '"hate speech." Hate speech is expression that is ...