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Judging the Judges : Indexing of Complex Information Reduces Injustice
Caplin, Andrew; Gomberg, Andrei; Sadka, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We demonstrate that cognitive constraints produce injustice in its most paradigmatic form: incorrect verdicts in judicial trials. Responding to a request for help, we conducted a field study in Mexican labor courts in which time pressure on the judges leads to their making mistakes, many of...
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Decision-Making under the Gambler's Fallacy : Evidence from Asylum Judges, Loan Officers, and Baseball Umpires
Chen, Daniel - 2016
We find consistent evidence of negative autocorrelation in decision-making that is unrelated to the merits of the cases considered in three separate high-stakes field settings: refugee asylum court decisions, loan application reviews, and major league baseball umpire pitch calls. The evidence is...
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and what we know about the design of patent systems. We also...
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A Jury of Her Peers : The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
Anwar, Shamena - 2016
This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made females eligible to serve on English juries, providing a novel setting...
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Negotiator Behavior Under Arbitration
Bloom, David E. - 1987
The emerging empirical literature on the economics of arbitration has focused primarily on the behavior of arbitrators … under alternative forms of arbitration. This article suggests that it is natural for empirical economists to now expand … behavior are discussed: (1) the decision to settle a dispute voluntarily or to proceed to arbitration; (2) the strategy for …
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Lab Labor : What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
Charness, Gary - 2010
understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …
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Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents : An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2005
In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New Jersey with data we have …
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An Experimental Comparison of Dispute Rates in Alternative Arbitration Systems
Ashenfelter, Orley - 1990
This paper reports the results of a systematic experimental comparison of the effect of alternative arbitration systems …" awards in the different arbitration systems. This allows us to compare dispute rates across different arbitration procedures … where we hold fixed the amount of objective underlying uncertainty about the arbitration awards …
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Does Gender Matter for Promotion in Science? Evidence from Physicists in France
Mairesse, Jacques - 2020
In this study, we investigate what are the factors of the promotion of female and male scientists at the French Institute of Physics (INP) at CNRS, one of the largest European public research organizations. We construct a long panel of INP physicists combining various data sources on their...
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Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract : The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...
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