Randomly Albright: The End of Judge Shopping in the Western District of Texas?
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection obscures the causal mechanisms that drive these preferences.
Christian Helmers +2 more
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A review of youth mental health in the U.S.: the current landscape, youth perspectives, and strategies for equitable solutions. [PDF]
Front Health ServGolden TL +5 more
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Quality Regulation and Unexpected Gaming: Evidence From Mandating Flight Delay Compensation
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policies that target a single aspect of agents' motivation may lead to their diminished efforts in other areas. This paper examines the effect of the European Union's flight delay compensation policy on flight on‐time performance by exploiting a unique policy variation in a difference‐in‐differences framework.
Jingyi Xing
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Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
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The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning. [PDF]
Sociol Methods ResChausson S +4 more
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When attentive insider trading matters: Evidence from government investment
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We examine whether insiders can exploit public information to increase their trading profitability. By exploiting, as a quasi‐natural experiment, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), announced in the U.S. in March 2021 and implemented in November 2021, we provide evidence that insiders earn higher profits when government investment plans ...
Dimitris Petmezas +3 more
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Driving the grid forward: How electric vehicle adoption shapes power system infrastructure and emissions. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AHanig L, Harper CD, Nock D, Michalek JJ.
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The Welfare and Distributional Consequences of Corporate Tax Cuts in Open Economies
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract We develop an open‐economy heterogeneous household model with incomplete markets to quantitatively evaluate the welfare and distributional effects—both within and across countries—of the corporate tax cut (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, TCJA) implemented in the U.S. in 2017. The model allows for examining outcomes under various possibilities including
MAMOON KADER +3 more
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State Health Care Cost Commissions: Their Priorities and How States' Political Leanings, Commercial Hospital Prices, and Medicaid Spending Predict Their Establishment. [PDF]
Milbank QFulton BD +3 more
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Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
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