Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

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Volume 18, issue 4, 2021

Assessing the Influence of Amici on Supreme Court Decision Making pp. 700-741

Ronald Mann and Michael Fronk

The Dogma Within? Examining Religious Bias in Private Title VII Claims pp. 742-764

Matthew Dahl, Devan N. Patel and Matthew E. K. Hall

Prosecution or Persecution? Extraneous Events and Prosecutorial Decisions pp. 765-800

Samantha Bielen and Peter Grajzl

Does the Bar Exam Protect the Public? pp. 801-848

Kyle Rozema

The Effectiveness of Certificates of Relief: A Correspondence Audit of Hiring Outcomes pp. 849-875

Peter Leasure and Robert J. Kaminski

Understanding the Decline in Drinking and Driving During “The Other Great Moderation” pp. 876-907

Darren Grant

The Canada Trademarks Dataset pp. 908-955

Jeremy N. Sheff

Volume 18, issue 3, 2021

Death Penalty Statutes and Murder Rates: Evidence From Synthetic Controls pp. 488-533

Brett Parker

The Federal Enforcement Threat: The Effect of Overfiling Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act pp. 534-568

Caroline Cecot

Consumption Tax Reform and the Real Economy: Evidence From India's Adoption of a Value‐Added Tax pp. 569-602

Abhay Aneja, Nirupama Kulkarni and S. K. Ritadhi

Ideology, Disadvantage, and Federal District Court Inmate Civil Rights Filings: The Troubling Effects of Pro Se Status pp. 603-628

Anna Gunderson

Physician Licensing and Discipline: Lessons From Indiana pp. 629-659

Jing Liu and David A. Hyman

The Impact of Employers' Liability on 19th‐Century U.K. Coalmining Fatalities pp. 660-683

Cento Veljanovski

Revisiting the Business of State Supreme Courts in the 21st Century pp. 684-696

Brent D. Boyea and Paul Brace

Volume 18, issue 2, 2021

Who Votes Without Identification? Using Individual‐Level Administrative Data to Measure the Burden of Strict Voter Identification Laws pp. 256-286

Phoebe Henninger, Marc Meredith and Michael Morse

Is “Not Guilty” the Same as “Innocent”? Evidence from SEC Financial Fraud Investigations pp. 287-327

David H. Solomon and Eugene Soltes

The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Disclosure and Behavior: A Case Study of Korea and a Comparison of Research Designs pp. 328-376

Bernard Black, Woochan Kim and Julia Nasev

Life “With” Or “Without”? An Empirical Study of Homicide Sentencing pp. 377-420

Michael O'Hear and Darren Wheelock

Do People Like Mandatory Rules? The Choice Between Disclosures, Defaults, and Mandatory Rules in Supplier‐Customer Relationships pp. 421-460

Ori Katz and Eyal Zamir

Affirming the District Judge: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of District Judges Sitting by Designation on Circuit Court Panels pp. 461-484

Andrew Sayer, Melanie Hess and Matthew E. K. Hall

Volume 18, issue 1, 2021

Measuring Lawyer Well‐Being Systematically: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey pp. 4-46

Yair Listokin and Raymond Noonan

Does Alice Target Patent Trolls? pp. 47-89

Mark A. Lemley and Samantha Zyontz

Comparing Conventional and Machine‐Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases pp. 90-130

Jeffrey Grogger, Sean Gupta, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

Medical Malpractice and Physician Discipline: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly pp. 131-166

David A. Hyman, Mohammad Rahmati and Bernard Black

Goldilocks Deference? pp. 167-188

Daniel H. Cole, Elizabeth Baldwin and Katie Meehan

Can Mandating Corporate Social Responsibility Backfire? pp. 189-251

Hajin Kim

Volume 17, issue 4, 2020

Foreword: The 2019 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies pp. 644-645

David Bjerk, Eric Helland and Dan Krauss

Filibuster Change and Judicial Appointments pp. 646-695

Jonathan Remy Nash and Joanna Shepherd

Copyright and Economic Viability: Evidence from the Music Industry pp. 696-721

Kristelia García, James Hicks and Justin McCrary

Manna from Heaven for Judges: Judges’ Reaction to a Quasi‐Random Reduction in Caseload pp. 722-751

Christoph Engel and Keren Weinshall

A Nationalist Backlash to International Refugee Law: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey pp. 752-788

Kevin L. Cope and Charles Crabtree

Responses to Liability Immunization: Evidence from Medical Devices pp. 789-819

Elissa P. Gentry and Benjamin J. McMichael

Persistent Effects of Colonial Institutions on Long‐Run Development: Local Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina pp. 820-861

Rok Spruk and Mitja Kovac

ALL‐CAPS pp. 862-896

Yonathan A. Arbel and Andrew Toler

Volume 17, issue 3, 2020

Working Hard or Making Work? Plaintiffs’ Attorney Fees in Securities Fraud Class Actions pp. 438-465

Stephen J. Choi, Jessica Erickson and A. C. Pritchard

Mapping the Iceberg: The Impact of Data Sources on the Study of District Courts pp. 466-492

Christina L. Boyd, Pauline T. Kim and Margo Schlanger

Economic Gender Equality and the Decline of Alimony in Switzerland pp. 493-518

Dorian Kessler

Inputs and Outputs on Appeal: An Empirical Study of Briefs, Big Law, and Case Complexity pp. 519-555

Adam M. Samaha, Michael Heise and Gregory C. Sisk

Factoring the Role of Eyewitness Evidence in the Courtroom pp. 556-579

Brandon L. Garrett, Alice Liu, Karen Kafadar, Joanne Yaffe and Chad S. Dodson

Judicial Disparity, Deviation, and Departures from Sentencing Guidelines: The Case of Hong Kong pp. 580-614

Kevin Kwok‐yin Cheng, Sayaka Ri and Natasha Pushkarna

Patent Similarity Data and Innovation Metrics pp. 615-639

Ryan Whalen, Alina Lungeanu, Leslie DeChurch and Noshir Contractor

Volume 17, issue 2, 2020

Improving Scientific Judgments in Law and Government: A Field Experiment of Patent Peer Review pp. 190-223

Daniel E. Ho and Lisa Ouellette

The Problem of Data Bias in the Pool of Published U.S. Appellate Court Opinions pp. 224-261

Keith Carlson, Michael A. Livermore and Daniel N. Rockmore

Subsidizing Liquidity with Wider Ticks: Evidence from the Tick Size Pilot Study pp. 262-316

Robert P. Bartlett and Justin McCrary

How Would Judges Compose Judicial Panels? Theory and Evidence from the Supreme Court of Israel pp. 317-341

Yehonatan Givati and Israel Rosenberg

Randomness Pre‐Considered: Recognizing and Accounting for “De‐Randomizing” Events When Utilizing Random Judicial Assignment pp. 342-382

Dane Thorley

Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in Bi‐Dimensional Courts: Evidence from Catalonia pp. 383-415

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Nuno Garoupa and Marian Gili

Developing High‐Quality Data Infrastructure for Legal Analytics: Introducing the Israeli Supreme Court Database pp. 416-434

Keren Weinshall and Lee Epstein

Volume 17, issue 1, 2020

Defensive Medicine and Obstetric Practices: Evidence from the Military Health System pp. 4-37

Michael Frakes and Jonathan Gruber

The Cost of Legal Restrictions on Experience Rating pp. 38-70

Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Darcy Steeg Morris and Joshua Teitelbaum

Does Capital Bear the U.S. Corporate Tax After All? New Evidence from Corporate Tax Returns pp. 71-115

Edward Fox

Separate Opinion Writing Under Mandatory Appellate Jurisdiction: Three‐Judge District Court Panels and the Voting Rights Act pp. 116-138

Maxwell Mak and Andrew H. Sidman

Criminal Sentencing by Preferred Numbers pp. 139-163

Mandeep K. Dhami, Ian K. Belton, Elizabeth Merrall, Andrew McGrath and Sheila M. Bird

Social Solidarity and Sentencing Disparities Between Ethnic Groups: The Case of Hit‐and‐Run Traffic Offenses pp. 164-185

Roni Factor and Miriam Gur‐Arye