Category Archives: Methods

Giving, Taking, Altruism, and more

Posted on April 11, 2013 by | Comments Off

Adam Grant (University of PA – Wharton) has been receiving a good amount of buzz regarding his work on altruism and organizational theory – garnering a NY Times magazine feature, Today Show interview, and more. Here he is below showing off his magic skills and explaining his book “Give and Take”.

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Race in the War on Drugs: The Social Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric

Posted on March 31, 2013 by | Comments Off

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Our paper “Race in the War on Drugs The Social Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric” can be found on SSRN. It was presented at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies and published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. The abstract is available below the fold. Continue reading →

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Posted in Academia, Andy, Conferences, Courts, Data, Jeff, Law, Methods, Policy, Presidency, War on Drugs

Elite Cues and Public Support for the Supreme Court

Posted on March 27, 2013 by | Comments Off

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Tom Clark and Jonathan Kastellec have posted “Elite Cues and Public Support for the Supreme Court” to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Continue reading →

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Judicial Elections and Opinion Quality in State Supreme Courts

Posted on March 27, 2013 by | Comments Off

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Damon Cann and Greg Goelzhauser have recently posted “Judicial Elections and Opinion Quality in State Supreme Courts” on SSRN. The graph above provides some of the basics on their measures of opinion clarity. Here’s the abstract: Continue reading →

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Attack Advertising in State Supreme Court Elections

Posted on March 23, 2013 by | Comments Off

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The above figure is from a recently published paper by Melinda Gann Hall and Chris Bonneau, “Attack Advertising, the White Decision, and Voter Participation in State Supreme Court Elections.” The abstract is available below the fold.  Continue reading →

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A scary graph

Posted on March 11, 2013 by | Comments Off

Source: James Hamilton at Econbrowser.

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Probably one of the more useful and realistic decision trees …

Posted on February 21, 2013 by | Comments Off

that I have ever seen — and I’ve seen a lot of them in brown-bag presentations, for better or worse (probably worse).

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