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The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
(American Law and Economics Review, 2009)
This article investigates the determinants of the blockbuster punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. As of the end of 2008, there had been 100 such awards with an average value of $3.0 billion. The U.S. Supreme ...
Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2010)
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects ...
An Empirical Assessment of Early Offer Reform for Medical Malpractice
(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 ...
The National Implications of Liability Reforms for General Liability and Medical Malpractice Insurance
(Seton Hall Law Review, 1994)
The stabilization of the insurance market may lead to lower prices for products and for medical care, but will also generally lead to lower values of tort awards as well. If the social objective was simply to reduce losses, ...
How Do Judges Think About Risk?
(American Law and Economics Review, 1999)
A sample of almost 100 judges exhibited well-known patterns of biases in risk beliefs and reasonable implicit values of life. These biases and personal preferences largely do not affect attitudes toward judicial risk ...
Using Warnings to Extend the Boundaries of Consumer Sovereignty
(Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 1999)
We make decisions every day for which we may not have full information. Not all such decisions lead to negative consequences, however. For example, scientists still know very little about why aspirin has its beneficial ...
Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008)
To resolve the theoretical ambiguity in the effect of age on the value of statistical life (VSL), this article uses a novel, age-dependent fatal risk measure to estimate age-specific hedonic wage regressions. VSL exhibits ...
Estimation of Revealed Probabilities and Utility Functions for Product Safety Decisions
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998)
Using survey data on consumer product purchases, this paper introduces an approach to estimate jointly individual utility functions and risk perceptions implied by their decisions. The behavioral risk beliefs reflected in ...
Law and Economics as a Pillar of Legal Education
(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, ...
The Benefits of Mortality Risk Reduction: Happiness Surveys vs. The Value of a Statistical Life
(Duke Law Journal, 2013)
A principal component of many benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of health, safety, and environmental regulations is the valuation of the fatality risk effects of the underlying policy. Government agencies currently value these ...