Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Law and Economics"
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(2019-03-07)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation studies the relationship between state laws, federal regulations, and the ongoing opioid epidemic. Chapter one studies the effect of naloxone access laws on opioid overdoses. Using a richly detailed ...
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(2017-03-30)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation is the first work to empirically examine a growing type of credit for cash-constrained tort plaintiffs called consumer litigation funding (“CLF”), which takes the form of a nonrecourse loan. A plaintiff ...
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(2019-03-22)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation examines the effect of various aspects of defendant appearance on criminal case outcomes. Chapter One uses an experimental vignette study to investigate the effect of defendant race on conviction rates ...
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(2018-03-30)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation seeks to shed further light on the issue of concussions in athletics—a topic that has garnered increased attention over the past decade. Chapter 1 examines youth sports concussion laws, which have now ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation uses Python-based programming to retrieve and analyze a sample of approximately 400,000 material contracts that companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission between 2001 and 2013, focusing ...
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(2013-07-26)Department: Law and EconomicsAlthough Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963 to promote public health and welfare, there has been relatively little research into the effectiveness of its monitoring and enforcement. This dissertation investigates ...
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(2018-03-26)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation empirically examines three distinct instances of immigration federalism. Though immigration law and policy is inherently federal, state and local governments have recently implemented various laws and ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Law and EconomicsEach branch of the federal government has a role in enforcing the federal nondiscrimination statutes. Congress creates and amends the statutes; the federal courts apply the law when parties file lawsuits under the statutes; ...
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(2016-03-23)Department: Law and EconomicsIn this dissertation, I examine consumer response to information available on product risks, and the response to regulatory changes in the type of risk disclosure specifically. My underlying theses relate to phenomena ...
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(2012-04-19)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation examines the impact of obesity on the labor market from a legal point of view. Previous scholars have documented a discrepancy between the wages of the obese and the non-obese that is particularly large ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: Law and EconomicsAs millions of new patients enter the healthcare system in the wake of the Affordable Care Act, the greater use of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) represents an important option for increasing the ...
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(2016-04-11)Department: Law and EconomicsThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the risks associated with pharmaceutical products; however, some drug uses are not directly regulated, and appropriate usage is left to the physician’s discretion. These ...
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(2014-04-26)Department: Law and EconomicsAdvances in horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing have allowed operators to profit from oil and gas extracted from the extensive shale formations found in the United States. The resulting boom in shale ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: Law and EconomicsThe Endangered Species Act is a strong environmental law that gives federal agencies authority to conserve imperiled species by regulating private and public parties. In this dissertation, I use data on timber harvests ...