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Promoting Safety Through Workers' Compensation: The Efficacy and Net Wage Costs of Injury Insurance
(The RAND Journal of Economics, 1989)
This article explores the effects of workers' compensation on fatality rates and wages using the 1982 Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the new occupational fatality data issued by the National Institute for Occupational ...
The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation, 1973-1983
(Rand Journal of Economics, 1986)
Using a sample of manufacturing industries from 1973 to 1983, this article reexamines
OSHA's impact on workplace safety. Evidence supporting OSHA's effectiveness is stronger than that presented in most previous studies ...
Two Hundred Years Ago Today
(Law and Inequality, 1988)
There is a tendency in the bicentennial year-and especially this week-to idealize the events of 1787. We tend to presume that the men who wrote the Constitution were near-perfect demigods, who crafted a brilliant and ...
Welcome to the Funhouse: The Incredible Maze of Modern Divorce Taxation
(Harvard Journal on Legislation, 1989)
Using legislative histories the article shows how the incidence of taxation began to fall more heavily on women in the context of divorce as women's social and political status rose during World War II and that this trend ...
Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Product Safety Regulation
(Journal of Law and Economics, 1985)
A recurring issue in the economic analysis of risk regulation agencies is whether these efforts have had any significant favorable effect on safety. Although the existence of such an effect would not necessarily imply that ...
The Ninth Amendment: Righting an Unwritten Constitution
(Chicago-Kent Law Review, 1988)
As the recent Symposium in these pages indicated, the preliminary debate over the meaning of the ninth amendment is essentially over. Despite the diversity of views expressed in the Symposium, all but one contributor agreed ...
Women's Virtue
(Tulane Law Review, 1989)
Michael Perry's thoughtful jurisprudential musings in Morality, Politics, and Law get most things just right. His framework of moral knowledge and a constitution of aspirations resonates with much of the best of contemporary ...
An Overview of the Uniform Land Transactions Act and the Uniform Simplification of Land Transfers Act
(Stetson Law Review, 1980)
The Uniform Land Transactions Act (ULTA) and the Uniform Simplification of Land Transfers Act (USLTA) recently were approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and recommended to the several ...
The Rutabaga That Ate Pittsburgh
(Virginia Law Review, 1986)
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first approved a field test of a bioengineered microbe, one EPA official remarked: "We're not expecting this to be the rutabaga that eats Pittsburgh.' But regulators
cannot ...
Toxic Tort Remedies: The Case Against the "Superduper Fund" and Other Reform Prososals
(Baylor Law Review, 1986)
This Article joins the enormous and growing body of literature examining the need for reform of toxic tort remedies for cases of exposure to hazardous substances released into the environment. It is different from most ...