Affirmative Action Bans and the “Chilling Effect”
in American Law and Economics Review
March 2013; p ublished online January 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Demand and Supply of Labour; Demographic Economics; Education and Research Institutions; Employment and Labour Law; Labour Discrimination. 15685 words.
This paper examines whether California's Proposition 209, which led to the 1998 ban on the use of racial preferences in admissions at the University of California (UC) system, lowered the...
Indigent Defense Counsel, Attorney Quality, and Defendant Outcomes
in American Law and Economics Review
December 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; Demand and Supply of Labour. 15024 words.
County governments typically provide legal defense services for the indigent through one of two methods: public defenders and assigned counsel. I measure differences in defendant outcomes...