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Race, poverty, and American tort awards : evidence from three data sets

Helland, Eric; Tabarrok, Alexander - In: The journal of legal studies 32 (2003) 1, pp. 27-58

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Race, poverty, and American tort awards : evidence from three datasets

Helland, Eric (contributor); Tabarrok, Alexander (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We investigate the impact of the race and income of the jury pool on trial awards. We find that the average tort award increases as black and Hispanic county population rates increase and especially as black and Hispanic county poverty rates increase. An increase in the black countypoverty rate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001769019

In Supreme Judgment of the Poor : The Role of the United States Supreme Court in Welfare Law and Policy

Baldwin, Bridgette - 2011

This Article examines the major Supreme Court rulings since the late 1960s that have directly addressed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), commonly known as welfare. The Supreme Court decided cases, such as King v. Smith, Shapiro v. Thompson, and Goldberg v. Kelly, in favor of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117309

Targeting Poverty in the Courts : Improving the Measurement of Ability to Pay

O'Neil, Meghan M. - 2019

Ability-to-pay determinations are essential when governments use money-based alternative sanctions, like fines, to enforce laws. One longstanding difficulty in the U.S. has been the extreme lack of guidance on how courts are to determine a litigant's ability to pay. The result has been a...

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Constitutional Castaways : Poverty and the Mclachlin Court

Jackman, Martha - 2015

The author argues that the Supreme Court has not fulfilled the expectations of marginalized groups that government action and inaction would be subject to Canadian Charter scrutiny. Instead it has perpetuated exclusion, disadvantage and discrimination against the poor. By exploring the few...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035279

The effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia

Beyene, Berhe Mekonnen - 2012

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330245

Evaluation of the Commission of the European Union's co-operation with Ethiopia : Country Level Evaluation ; Final Report ; Volume 1

Hennion, Max (contributor); Christensen, Peter (contributor) - ECO Consult - 2012

findings of the 2010 Country Level Evaluation of the European Union‘s support to Ethiopia. The evaluation was carried out to … cooperation programme with Ethiopia between 2004 and 2008, an earlier period of cooperation having been covered by the 2003 … to Ethiopia. Lessons learned from the results of the EU's support to Ethiopia may also be fruitful for other ACP …

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Economic reconstruction and the peasants in Ethiopia : two papers presented at the Symposium on the Ethiopian Economy, with a postscript

Cheru, Fantu; Pausewang, Siegfried - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000897731

Economic reconstruction and the peasants in Ethiopia : two papers presented at the symposium on the Ethiopian economy, with a postscript

Cheru, Fantu; Pausewang, Siegfried - 1992

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000148883

The Ethiopian economy : poverty and poverty alleviation ; proceedings of the fifth Annual Conference on the Ethiopian Economy

Kebede, Bereket (contributor) - 1996

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000680649

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