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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2015-04-01)
This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design
that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän)
to make three contributions to the literature ...
Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2014-06-01)
We consider the estimation of a semiparametric location-scale model subject to endogenous
selection, in the absence of an instrument or a large support regressor. Identification
relies on the independence between the covariates ...
Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2014-12-05)
This paper presents new empirical evidence that internal movement - selling one home
and buying another - by existing homeowners within a metropolitan housing market is
especially volatile and the main driver of fluctuations ...
A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-10)
This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in
the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification
(Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act ...
What if the Lottery were Run for Lottery Players?
(2007-03-01)
Global protected area impacts.
(Proc Biol Sci, 2011-06-07)
Protected areas (PAs) dominate conservation efforts. They will probably play a role
in future climate policies too, as global payments may reward local reductions of
loss of natural land cover. We estimate the impact of ...
What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-01)
This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in
seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit
score and other key risk factors, African-American and ...
Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-01)
Historical anecdotes of new investors being drawn into a booming asset market, only
to suffer when the market turns, abound. While the role of investor contagion in asset
bubbles has been explored extensively in the theoretical ...