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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 ...
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 ...
Punitive Damages by Numbers: Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker
(Supreme Court Economic Review, 2010)
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker is a landmark that establishes an upper bound ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages of 1:1 for maritime cases, with potential implications for other ...
Saving Lives Through Punitive Damages
(Southern California Law Review, 2010)
This Article proposes that the value of statistical life ("VSL ") be used to set the total damages amount needed for deterrence when punitive damages are warranted in wrongful death cases. The appropriate level of total ...
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 ...
He Said, She Said, Let's Hear What the Data Say: Sexual Harassment in the Media, Courts , EEOC, and Social Science
(Kentucky Law Journal, 2013)
We examine whether two national newspapers (The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal) provide a realistic representation of sexual harassment in the workplace by comparing media coverage to empirical evidence on ...
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 ...