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Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling: Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers?
(American Economic Review, 1984)
A fundamental issue in the economics of uncertainty is how individuals process information and make choices under uncertainty. In a recent analysis of the findings on risk perception, Kenneth Arrow (1982) concluded that ...
Frameworks for Analyzing the Effects of Risk and Environmental Regulations on Productivity
(American Economic Association, 1983)
The existence of a negative relationship between the regulatory burden and capital
investments, and consequently productivity,is not controversial. A conventional model of
this type is developed in Section I. If, however, ...
"New and Improved" Estimates of Qualification Discrimination
(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 ...
Financing a College Education: A Taxing Dilemma
(Ohio State Law Journal, 1989)
The cost of sending a child to college in the United States is rapidly increasing. As a result, the need for families to plan ahead to meet this cost has never been greater. Paramount in making those plans is the consideration ...
The Implications of Prison Privatization on the Conduct of Prisoner Litigation Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 1987)
Prisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of action brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 for violations of their constitutional rights caused by the overall condition of their confinement or by one ...
Interstate Pollution Control and Resource Development Planning: Outmoded Approaches or Outmoded Politics?
(Natural Resources Journal, 1988)
Arbitrary political boundaries are no barrier at all to the physical effects of pollution and resource development. Yet, despite the optimism that ushered in the heightened environmental consciousness of the past several ...
The Risks and Rewards of Criminal Activity: A Comprehensive Test of Criminal Deterrence
(Journal of Labor Economics, 1986)
Whereas previous analyses of criminal deterrence have focused on the effect of criminal enforcement on crime rates, this study analyzes the existence of compensating differentials for criminal pursuits. By analyzing the ...
Capacity to Contest a Search and Seizure: the Passing of Old Rules and Some Suggestions for New Ones
(American Criminal Law Review, 1981)
Professor Slobogin examines recent Supreme Court decisions involving standing to challenge search and seizure violations, and argues that the Court's commitment to a "totality of the circumstances" approach has permitted ...
Moral Hazard and Merit Rating Over Time: An Analysis of Optimal Intertemporal Wage Structures
(Southern Economic Journal, 1986)
In situations of uncertain worker productivity and risk aversion, labor market contracts have a dual objective of promoting incentives and risk spreading. A trade-off between these objectives is present in single period ...
The Lulling Effect: The Impact of Child-Resistant Packaging on Aspirin and Analgesic Ingestions
(AEA Papers and Proceedings, 1984)
In 1972 the Food and Drug Administration imposed a protective bottlecap requirement
on aspirin and other selected drugs. This regulation epitomizes the technological
approach to social regulation. The strategy for reducing ...