Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Hersch, Joni, 1956-"

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    • Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (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 ...
    • Punitive Damages by Numbers: Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Viscusi, W. Kip (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 ...
    • Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Legal Studies, 2004)
      This paper presents the first empirical anatysis that demonstrates that juries differ from judges in awarding punitive damages. Our review of punitive damages awards of $100 million or more identified 63 such awards, of ...
    • Saving Lives Through Punitive Damages 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (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 ...
    • Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2006)
      This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in ...
    • Skin Color Discrimination and Immigrant Pay 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Emory Law Journalwww.law.emory.edu/elj, 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 ...
    • Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2006)
      It is commonly assumed that lighter skinned African Americans receive preferential treatment over darker skinned counterparts. Using individual data from three sources, this paper examines the influence of skin tone on ...
    • Teen Smoking Behavior and the Regulatory Environment 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Duke Law Journal, 1998)
      Professor Hersch argues that most state regulations aimed at fighting teen smoking have had little or no effect. She provides evidence that despite widespread age restrictions on purchasing tobacco, most teens do not ...
    • Tort Liability Litigation Costs for Commercial Claims 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Viscusi, W. Kip (American Law and Economics Review, 2007)
      This article analyzes tort liability litigation costs using the Texas Department of Insurance Commercial Liability Insurance Closed Claim database for the years 1988–2004. Insurer costs to defend claims in which a suit was ...
    • The Use and Misuse of Econometric Evidence in Employment Discrimination Cases 
      Hersch, Joni, 1956-; Bullock, Blair Druhan (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 ...
    • Voter Preferences and State Regulation of Smoking 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Del Rossi, Alison F.; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (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 ...