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2009
w15535 Richard T. Boylan
Naci H. Mocan

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform

w15422 W. Kip Viscusi
Joni Hersch

Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement

w15354 Dave E. Marcotte
Sara Markowitz

A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends

w15279 Frederick Schauer
Richard Zeckhauser

The Trouble with Cases

w15220 Andrew Gelman
Nate Silver
Aaron Edlin

What is the probability your vote will make a difference?

w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

w15183 Seth M. Freedman
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Mara Lederman

Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls

w15061 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

w15051 Randall Morck
Generalized Agency Problems

w14940 Nisvan Erkal
Suzanne Scotchmer

Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it

w14634 Guy David
Sara Markowitz
Seth Richards

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation


2008
w14501 Ernst Fehr
Oliver D. Hart
Christian Zehnder

Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence

w14393 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History

w14279 Timothy Brezina
Erdal Tekin
Volkan Topalli

"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830

w13968 Edward Miguel
Sebastián M. Saiegh
Shanker Satyanath

National Cultures and Soccer Violence

w13945 Dalton Conley
Brian J. McCabe

Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring

w13759 Angela K. Dills
Jeffrey A. Miron
Garrett Summers

What Do Economists Know About Crime?

w13757 Gary Richardson
Dan Bogart

Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830


2007
w13608 Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins

w13342 Braz Camargo
Todd Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Evidence about the Potential Role for Affirmative Action in Higher Education

w13321 Pablo T. Spiller
Rafael Gely

Strategic Judicial Decision Making

w13294 Petra Moser
Why Don't Inventors Patent?

w13230 Christine Jolls
Employment Law and the Labor Market

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

w12879 Christine Jolls
Behavioral Law and Economics


2006
w12795 Douglass C North
John Joseph Wallis
Barry R. Weingast

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

w12631 Naci H. Mocan
R. Kaj Gittings

The Impact of Incentives on Human Behavior: Can We Make It Disappear? The Case of the Death Penalty

w12093 Raghuram G. Rajan
Competitive Rent Preservation, Reform Paralysis, and the Persistence of Underdevelopment


2005
w11781 Steven Shavell
Liability for Accidents

w11772 Karla Hoff
Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Creation of the Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Property Rights: The Political and Economic Consequences of a Corrupt Privatization

w11738 Christine Jolls
Cass R. Sunstein

Debiasing through Law

w11659 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Christopher Woock
James P. Ziliak

How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life

w11162 Craig Doidge
G. Andrew Karolyi
Karl V. Lins
Darius P. Miller
Rene M. Stulz

Private Benefits of Control, Ownership, and the Cross-Listing Decision

w11110 Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau
Diego Comin

Testing out Contractual Incompleteness: Evidence from Soccer

w11052 Jun Qian
Philip E. Strahan

How Law and Institutions Shape Financial Contracts: The Case of Bank Loans


2004
w10825 Daniel P. Kessler
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System

w10677 David Becker
Daniel Kessler
Mark McClellan

Detecting Medicare Abuse

w10634 Kate L. Antonovics
Brian G. Knight

A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department

w10553 John M. de Figueiredo
James J. Kim

When Do Firms Hire Lobbyists? The Organization of Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission

w10271 B. Zorina Khan
Does Copyright Piracy Pay? The Effects of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920


2003
w9994 Jonathan Klick
Sara Markowitz

Are Mental Health Insurance Mandates Effective? Evidence from Suicides

w9810 Youngjae Lim
Chin Hee Hahn

Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea

w9678 Joshua Graff Zivin
Richard Just
David Zilberman

Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety

w9409 Stephen Ansolabehere
John M. de Figueiredo
James M. Snyder

Why Is There So Little Money in Politics?


2002
w9336 Ian Ayres
John J. Donohue III

Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

w9315 David S. Lee
Enrico Moretti
Matthew J. Butler

Credibility and Policy Convergence: Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records

w9064 John M. de Figueiredo
Brian S. Silverman

Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying

w8759 Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Andrei Shleifer

The Guarantees of Freedom


2001
w8638 Avner Bar-Ilan
Bruce Sacerdote

The Response to Fines and Probability of Detection in a Series of Experiments

w8532 Francesco Caselli
Massimo Morelli

Bad Politicians

w8469 James E. Anderson
Oriana Bandiera

From Wild West to the Godfather: Enforcement Market Structure


2000
w7982 Sara Markowitz
An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

w7760 David M. Cutler
Jonathan Gruber
Raymond S. Hartman
M.B. Landrum
J. Newhouse
Meredith B. Rosenthal

The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

w7747 D. Cutler
R.G. Frank
C. King III
M.B. Rosenthal
E.R. Vigdor
A.M. Epstein
R.S. Hartman
J.P. Newhouse

How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts

w7480 Ravi Jagannathan
Shaker B. Srinivasan

Does Product Market Competition Reduce Agency Costs?


1999
w7142 Gary D. Libecap
James L. Smith

The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements: Theory and Evidence

w7086 Mark Schankerman
Suzanne Scotchmer

Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools

w6960 Louis Kaplow
Steven Shavell

Economic Analysis of Law


1994
w4457 Louis Kaplow
Steven Shavell

The Efficiency of the Legal System versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income


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