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Divorce and the Excess Burden of Lawyers
Halla, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter … incentives as in the classical prisoners’ dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers’ fees, each spouse has … an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a simple institutional setting allowing for joint lawyers in order to overcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762445
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The Right to Health and the Health Effects of Denials
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernandez Sierra, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We use administrative data on judicial claims for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658264
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283985
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757344
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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game: Evidence from long run play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon Boyack - 2013
slowly evolved to a non-cooperative equilibrium where the use of lawyers becomes nearly universal, despite the fact that … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293160
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Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data
Winters, John V. - 2015
The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401669
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Bias in the legal profession: Self-assessed versus statistical measures of discrimination
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - 2011
that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278310
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513195
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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
slowly evolved to a non-cooperative equilibrium where the use of lawyers becomes nearly universal, despite the fact that … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010704403
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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150625