Is Your Lawyer a Lemon? Incentives and Selection in the Public Provision of Criminal Defense

Amanda Agan, Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens

NBER Working Paper No. 24579
Issued in May 2018

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We are grateful for helpful comments from Lisa Barrow, Damon Clark, Sara Heller, John Matsusaka, Michael Mueller-Smith, David Neumark, Emily Nix, Anne Piehl, Todd Sorensen, Mark Stehr, Betsey Stevenson, Megan Stevenson, and Matthew Weinberg as well as numerous conference and seminar participants. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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