At CELS 2012
posted by Dave Hoffman
I’m really looking forward to next week’s 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, to be held at Stanford. Here’s the preliminary program. As usual, I’ll blog the conference after the fact. If there are particular papers you want to make sure I get to and highlight, drop me a line. As a taste, here’s a line from an abstract that made me very curious about the presentation to follow: “Our overall estimates suggest that pornography caused between 10 and 25 percent of all divorces in the United States in the sixties and seventies.” Caused?! That must be some kicker of an instrumental variable.
November 2, 2012 at 8:00 pm
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amused - November 4, 2012 at 2:41 am
There are many other ways of showing causation, beyond IV. Diff in diffs, for example, which is what they probably did (I didn’t see the paper).
Dave Hoffman - November 4, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Amused
Nope, they used an instrumental variable – purchases of Time magazine. Worth reading the paper.
amused - November 5, 2012 at 1:17 am
Magazine purchases as IV? Gag. Not worth reading.
Wilson - November 6, 2012 at 7:05 am
Hi Dave,
It would be great if you could take a look of the following item and comment a little bit! Thanks
- Below the Bar? Racial and Gender Bias in
Judicial NominationsJudicial Selection and Death Penalty Decisions
- Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal
Criminal Cases
- Structural Bias in the Sentencing of Felony
Defendants
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