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Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice

Ash, Elliott; Chen, Daniel L.; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...

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Task Allocation and On-the-job Training

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Lee, SangMok; Yariv, Leeat - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study dynamic task allocation when providers' expertise evolves endogenously through training. We characterize optimal assignment protocols and compare them to discretionary procedures, where it is the clients who select their service providers. Our results indicate that welfare gains from...

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The Market for Lawyers : The Determinants of the Demand for and Supply ofLawyers

Pashigian, B. Peter - 1976

Some additional evidence on the comparative effect of income, regulation, and other variables on the demand for lawyers … demand for lawyers. Section I presents a theoretical model of the demand for and supply of lawyers. The empirical … compares the actual number of lawyers with the number that would have existed if lawyers earned a normal return on their …

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Professional Interactions and Hiring Decisions : Evidence from the Federal Judiciary

Battaglini, Marco - 2020

We examine the effect of hearing cases alongside female judicial colleagues on the probability that a federal judge hires a female law clerk. Federal judges are assigned to cases and to judicial panels at random and have few limitations on their choices of law clerks: these two features make the...

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Racial Bias and In-group Bias in Judicial Decisions : Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms

Bielen, Samantha - 2018

students, economics students, practicing lawyers and judges are randomly assigned to watch with VR headsets, the trials that … a small sample of judges and prosecutors with the sample of lawyers provides results that are very similar to those … obtained from the analysis of lawyers …

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Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts

Ash, Elliott - 2020

Anecdotal evidence often points to aging as a cause for reduced work performance. This paper provides empirical evidence on this issue in a context where performance is measurable and there is variation in mandatory retirement policies: U.S. state supreme courts. We find that introducing...

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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin : The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion

Coviello, Decio - 2010

We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of...

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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs : Evidence From U.S. Law Firms

Garicano, Luis - 2009

.S. law offices on lawyers' organization and earnings, we study the extent to which the mechanism suggested by Lucas (1978 … in inequality. We first show that earnings inequality among lawyers increased substantially between 1977 and 1992, and … by about 30% more in 1992 than 1977. We find also that changes in lawyers' hierarchical organization account for about 2 …

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Strategic Judicial Decision Making

Spiller, Pablo T. - 2007

This survey paper starts from the basic, and intuitive, assumption that judges are human and as such, can be modeled in the same fashion we model politicians, activists, managers: driven by well-defined preferences, behaving in a purposive and forward-looking fashion. We explore, then, the role...

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The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

Avery, Christopher - 2007

In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow...

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