NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Law and Economics: Other Substantive Areas of Law


2012
w17807 Tal Gross
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Jialan Wang
Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates


2011
w17693 Sean Dougherty
Verónica C. Frisancho Robles
Kala Krishna
Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India

w17637 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell
Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

w17603 Nuno Limao
Kamal Saggi
Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements

w17569 Joseph E. Aldy
Robert Stavins
The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

w17467 David Neumark
Joanne Song
Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

w17448 Igor Livshits
James MacGee
Michèle Tertilt
Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit

w17265 Serguey Braguinsky
Lee G. Branstetter
Andre Regateiro
The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm

w17237 Michelle J. White
Corporate and Personal Bankruptcy Law

w17051 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman
Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

w16860 Hilary Sigman
Howard F. Chang
The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets With Imperfect Enforcement

w16839 Kevin S. Markle
Douglas A. Shackelford
Cross-Country Comparisons of Corporate Income Taxes

w16773 Jin Young Lee
Gary Solon
The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates

w16756 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD


2010
w16632 Rohan Pitchford
Mark L. J. Wright
Holdouts in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Theory of Negotiation in a Weak Contractual Environment

w16626 Morris M. Kleiner
David Weil
Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

w16560 Morris M. Kleiner
Kyoung Won Park
Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists

w16484 Viral V. Acharya
Ramin P. Baghai
Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian
Labor Laws and Innovation

w16433 Melissa Schettini Kearney
Peter Tufano
Jonathan Guryan
Erik Hurst
Making Savers Winners: An Overview of Prize-Linked Savings Products

w16268 Louis Kaplow
Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change

w16235 Steven Shavell
The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities

w16234 Steven Shavell
Corrective Taxation versus Liability

w16209 Howard F. Chang
Hilary Sigman
An Empirical Analysis of Cost Recovery in Superfund Cases: Implications for Brownfields and Joint and Several Liability

w16129 Jennifer Blouin
Jana Raedy
Douglas Shackelford
Dividends, Share Repurchases, and Tax Clienteles: Evidence from the 2003 Reductions in Shareholder Taxes

w16123 Lawrence H. Goulder
Robert N. Stavins
Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

w16048 W. Bentley MacLeod
Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance

w15968 Wenli Li
Michelle J. White
Ning Zhu
Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Default to Rise?

w15963 Damon Jones
Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds

w15818 Louis Kaplow
On the Taxation of Private Transfers

w15728 Betsey Stevenson
Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports


2009
w15603 Tomas J. Philipson
Eric C. Sun
Dana Goldman
The Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA

w15585 W. Kip Viscusi
Joel Huber
Jason Bell
Caroline Cecot
Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits

w15541 Robert W. Staiger
Alan O. Sykes
International Trade and Domestic Regulation

w15472 Wenli Li
Michelle J. White
Mortgage Default, Foreclosure, and Bankruptcy

w15460 Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger
Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements

w15439 Robert Kaestner
Benjamin Yarnoff
Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities

w15248 Michael Faulkender
Mitchell Petersen
Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act

w15177 John R. Graham
Hyunseob Kim
The Effects of the Length of the Tax-Loss Carryback Period on Tax Receipts and Corporate Marginal Tax Rates

w15161 Kasey S. Buckles
Melanie E. Guldi
Joseph Price
Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements

w15100 Haitao Yin
Howard Kunreuther
Matthew White
Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?

w15091 Kevin S. Markle
Douglas Shackelford
Do Multinationals or Domestic Firms Face Higher Effective Tax Rates?

w15036 Philip Oreopoulos
Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

w15017 Hilary Sigman
Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land

w14979 Morris M. Kleiner
Alan B. Krueger
Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market


2008
w14600 Robert W. Staiger
Alan O. Sykes
"Currency Manipulation" and World Trade

w14549 Michelle J. White
Bankruptcy: Past Puzzles, Recent Reforms, and the Mortgage Crisis

w14346 Betsey Stevenson
Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

w14276 Jesse Rothstein
Albert H. Yoon
Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?

w14275 Jesse Rothstein
Albert Yoon
Mismatch in Law School

w14179 Michelle J. White
Ning Zhu
Saving Your Home in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

w14170 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences

w14167 Price V. Fishback
Rebecca Holmes
Samuel Allen
Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era

w14067 Giovanni Maggi
Robert W. Staiger
On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements

w14062 Michael D. Grubb
Paul Oyer
Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking

w13920 John Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Helena Schweiger
Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations


2007
w13700 Alma Cohen
Rajeev Dehejia
Dmitri Romanov
Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

w13684 Morris M. Kleiner
Richard M. Todd
Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers

w13575 Richard L. Revesz
Robert Stavins
Environmental Law and Policy

w13574 Robert N. Stavins
Environmental Economics

w13563 Steven Shavell
On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering

w13363 Igor Livshits
James MacGee
Michèle Tertilt
Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies

w13330 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney
Kory Kroft
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

w13265 Michelle J. White
Bankruptcy Reform and Credit Cards

w13230 Christine Jolls
Employment Law and the Labor Market

w13206 Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

w13142 Robert A. Pollak
Bargaining Around the Hearth

w13002 Jedidiah Brewer
Robert Glennon
Alan Ker
Gary D. Libecap
Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms

w12944 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

w12860 David H. Autor
William R. Kerr
Adriana D. Kugler
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

w12831 Alberto Abadie
Alexis Diamond
Jens Hainmueller
Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

t0335 Alberto Abadie
Alexis Diamond
Jens Hainmueller
Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

w12821 Howard C. Kunreuther
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
Climate Change, Insurability of Large-scale Disasters and the Emerging Liability Challenge


2006
w12803 Allan Begosh
John Goldsmith
Ed Hass
Randall W. Lutter
Clark Nardinelli
John A. Vernon
Black Box Warnings and Drug Safety: Examining the Determinants and Timing of FDA Warning Labels

w12368 Justin McCrary
The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police

w12339 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation

w12259 Louis Kaplow
Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax

w12239 Louis Kaplow
Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency

w12061 Louis Kaplow
Taxation

w11934 W. Kip Viscusi
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks


2005
w11817 Paul Oyer
Salary or Benefits?

w11667 Howard F. Chang
Hilary Sigman
The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields

w11613 Jeff DeSimone
Sara Markowitz
The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Non-Fatal Gun Injuries

w11241 Mihir A. Desai
Dhammika Dharmapala
Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value

w11067 Michelle Hanlon
Terry Shevlin
Bank-Tax Conformity for Corporate Income: An Introduction to the Issues


2004
w10946 Robert Bornholz
James J. Heckman
Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation

w10708 Christine Jolls
The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws


2003
w10129 James Heckman
Carmen Pages
Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

w9717 Bronwyn H. Hall
Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

w9562 William J. Collins
The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1960-970


2002
w9363 Josh Lerner
Jean Tirole
The Scope of Open Source Licensing

w8980 Iain M. Cockburn
Samuel Kortum
Scott Stern
Are All Patent Examiners Equal? The Impact of Examiner Characteristics

w8953 Michael Kremer
Seema Jayachandran
Odious Debt


2000
w7704 Hilary Sigman
The Pace of Progress at Superfund Sites: Policy Goals and Interest Group Influence

w7557 David H. Autor
Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment


1998
w6398 Leora Friedberg
Did Unilateral Divorce Raise Divorce Rates? Evidence from Panel Data


1997
w6127 David Neumark
William Wascher
Do Minimum Wages Fight Poverty?


1996
w5840 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor
The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States 1900-1930

h0095 Price V. Fishback
Shawn Everett Kantor
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930

w5460 Scott Smart
Joel Waldfogel
A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals


1995
w5368 Janet Currie
Joseph Ferrie
Strikes and the Law in the U.S., 1881-1894: New Evidence on the Origins of American Exceptionalism


1992
w4176 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell
Optimal Cleanup and Liability After Environmentally Harmful Discharges

w3723 Louis Kaplow
The Income Tax as Insurance: The Casualty Loss and Medical Expense Deductions and the Exclusion of the Medical Insurance Premiums

w4071 Dan Kovenock
Marie Thursby
GATT, Dispute Settlement and Cooperation


1991
w3774 Wayne B. Gray
John T. Scholz
Do OSHA Inspections Reduce Injuries? A Panel Analysis

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