Currie, Janet; MacLeod, W. Bentley - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (2008) 2, pp. 795-830
In the 1980s and 1990s many states adopted tort reforms. It has been argued that these reforms have reduced the practice of defensive medicine arising from excess tort liability. We find that this does not appear to be true for a large and important class of cases-childbirth in the United...