This paper explores the legitimacy of patent law. It presents two detailed case studies to demonstrate how the European Patent Office's practice Examination Guidelines transform contested inventive matter and methods into arguable patent claims. The analysis makes the broader conceptual point...

This paper uses panel data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) for 1988-2000 to examine the effects of family transitions during the teenage years on adolescent short-term high school performance and long-term adult outcomes. To deal with the potential endogeneity problem, I...

In this study we report an attempt to measure the value adult Swedes impute to an increased survival probability at high ages. A rating scale between the worst possible quality of life (=3D1) and the best possible quality of life (=3D10) is used to indicate the quality of life a person expects...