This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law %u … extensions of the central theory, including: activity level; errors; the costs of imposing fines; general enforcement; marginal …

We examine whether stronger age discrimination laws at the state level moderated the impact of the Great Recession on … evidence that stronger age discrimination protections helped older workers weather the Great Recession, relative to younger … workers. The evidence sometimes points in the opposite direction, with stronger state age discrimination protections …

may be frustrated by age discrimination. We test for policy complementarities between these reforms and demand …-side efforts to deter age discrimination, specifically studying whether stronger state-level age discrimination protections … age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit …

This paper reviews evidence on age discrimination in U.S. labor markets and on the effects of the Age Discrimination in … Employment Act (ADEA) in combating this discrimination. It focuses on the challenge of population aging facing the U.S. economy … in coming decades. Combating age discrimination is likely to help in meeting this challenge by encouraging employment of …

adversely affect the labor market outcomes of ex-offenders. A model of statistical discrimination also predicts that non … predictions of the statistical discrimination model, but the estimates are not significantly different from zero. These estimates … unique setting for testing theories of statistical discrimination. …

This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature …