Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Hersch, Joni, 1956-"
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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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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Applied Economics, 1985)The supply of effort on the job has been virtually ignored as a component of the effective supply of labour. Typically, labour supply models assume the worker chooses the utility-maximizing number of hours to supply on the ...
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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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Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Viscusi, W. Kip (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001)Using a large data set, the authors find that smokers select riskier jobs, but receive lower total wage compensation for risk than do nonsmokers. This finding is inconsistent with conventional models of compensating ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (The American Economic Review, 1998)Women have largely been excluded from analyses of compensating differentials for job risk since they are predominantly employed in safer, white-collar occupations. New data reveal that their injury experience is considerable. ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2011)This paper provides evidence of the relation between the risk of sexual harassment and wages. While one approach to detecting the effect on wages of sexual harassment would be to estimate wage equations controlling for ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Journal of Legal Studies, 2006)This paper uses a unique data set to examine how parties in civil litigation choose whether to demand a jury trial or to waive this right and whether trial forum influences the probability of trial versus settlement. ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies, 1997)The composition of the labor force has changed dramatically since 1960. In 1960, only one-third of the labor force participants were female. However, since the 1960s, the labor force rates of men have declined, from 83.3% ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991)Using a new data set, this paper gives evidence in support of the intuitive notion that overqualified workers are less satisfied with their jobs and are more likely to quit. However, training time is inversely related to ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Viscusi, W. Kip; O'Connell, Jeffrey (Journal of Legal Studies, 2007)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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Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956-; O'Connell, Jeffrey (Journal of Legal Studies, 2007)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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Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Moran, Beverly I. (Kentucky Law Journal, 2013)We examine whether two national newspapers (The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal) provide a realistic representation of sexual harassment in the workplace by comparing media coverage to empirical evidence on ...
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Stratton, Leslie S.; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2000)Empirical research has consistently shown that married men have substantially higher wages, on average, than otherwise similar unmarried men. One commonly cited hypothesis to explain this pattern is that marriage allows ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Stratton, Leslie S. (American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 1994)While the popular press may have declared housework passe with the advent of the two-income household (see "Housework is Obsolescent" by Barbara Ehrenreich [1993] for one such example), the facts indicate that housework ...
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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 1991)
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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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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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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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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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Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Cardozo Women's Law Journal, 2003)To examine the magnitude and source of the gender pay disparity among lawyers, this paper uses data from a large national survey reporting individual information for 1990 and 1993 on a wide array of work related and personal ...