requires relatively nonrestrictive sparsity assumptions for identification, thus being applicable to dense networks with …

Before the middle of the nineteenth century most laws enacted in the United States were special bills that granted … constitutions to ban the most common types of special legislation and, at the same time, mandate that all laws be general in their …

likely, to make necessarily general policy on the basis of unwarranted assumptions about the typicality of one or a few high …

A large literature has documented relationships between state clean indoor air laws (SCIALs) and smoking …-related outcomes in the US. These laws vary within states over time and across venues such as schools, government buildings, and bars …-experimental models indicate robust effects of SCIALs restricting smoking in bars: these laws significantly increased the presence of …

improve land previously bound by landholding and inheritance laws. This essay provides a factual foundation for research on …

affected and builds up the overall index from 17 categories of regulation; the number of pages of laws; appropriations for …

replace existing legal rules with new ones. We use a legal realist model, in which judges change the law to reflect their own … legal rules that rarely converge to efficiency. The selection of disputes for litigation does not change this conclusion …