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Instruments of development : Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development

Deaton, Angus S. - 2009

-based evaluation of projects is unlikely to lead to scientific progress in the understanding of economic development. I welcome recent … trends in development experimentation away from the evaluation of projects and towards the evaluation of theoretical …

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S

Kapteyn, Arie - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Reflections on Americans' Views of the Euro Ex Ante

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2009

This paper was prepared for a session of the 2009 American Economic Association meeting devoted to examining the views of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro. I had written an article in 1992 in the Economist and...

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The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective

Landes, William M. - 1975

We believe that at a deeper level the independent judiciary is not only consistent with, but essential to, the interest …-group theory of government. Part I of this paper explains our theory of the independent judiciary. Part II discusses several …

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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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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Judicial Fact Discretion

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2006

Does it matter for the outcome of a trial who the judge is? Legal practitioners typically believe that the answer is yes, yet legal scholarship sees trial judges as predictably enforcing established law. Following Frank (1951), we suggest here that trial judges exercise considerable discretion...

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Judicial Lobbying : The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation

Iaryczower, Matias - 2005

the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available …

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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then started moving in the opposite direction in the second half of 2000s. This … military's influence and the broadening of effective political participation. As Turkey-European Union relations collapsed and …-paced and lower-quality growth Turkey has been experiencing since about 2007 …

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The Quality of Ideas : Measuring Innovation with Multiple Indicators

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1999

We model early expectations about the value and technological importance ('quality') of a patented innovation as a latent variable common to a set of four indicators: the number of patent claims, forward citations, backward citations and family size. The model is estimated for four technology...

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