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Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking
(2015-12-17)
Voters' preferences for smoking restrictions in restaurants, bars, malls, indoor sporting events, and hospitals are consistent with state-level restrictions on smoking in each of these public areas. This analysis is based ...
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, ...
Assessing the Insurance Role of Tort Liability After Calabresi
(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 ...
Male-Female Differences in Hourly Wages: The Role of Human Capital, Working Conditions, and Housework
(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 ...
Skin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Pay
(Emory Law Journal, 2008)
In "Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height," (Journal of Labor Economics 2008), I present strong evidence of a wage penalty to darker skin color among new legal immigrants to the United ...
Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height
(Journal of Labor Economics, 2008)
Using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this paper shows that skin color and height affect wages among new lawful immigrants to the U.S. controlling for education, English language proficiency, occupation in source ...
The Use and Misuse of Econometric Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases
(Washington & Lee Law Review, 2014)
Experts routinely criticize three aspects of regression analyses presented by the opposing party in employment discrimination cases: omitted explanatory variables, sample size, and statistical significance. However, these ...
Job Matching and Women's Wage-Tenure Profile
(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 ...
Compensating Differentials for Gender-Specific Job Injury Risks
(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. ...
Compensating Differentials for Sexual Harassment
(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 ...