An Analysis of the Performance of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel

Radha Iyengar

NBER Working Paper No. 13187
Issued in June 2007

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I am extraordinarily grateful to Henry Farber for continued advice and support. I would like to thank Josh Palazola for research assistance and Manda Wilson for programming assistance. I would also like to thank Mark Motivans at the Bureau of Justice Statistics and George Drakulich at the Administrative Office of the US Courts for generous assistance with data. Orley Ashenfelter, Lawrence Katz, Jeffrey Kling, Jesse Rothstein, Cecilia Rouse, Courtney Stoddard, James Wilson, and participants at the Industrial Relation Section labor lunch provided numerous insightful suggestions. I am grateful to the Princeton Industrial Relations Section, the Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for financial support. The opinions and conclusions are solely those of the author. Any remaining errors are entirely my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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