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At CELS 2012

Posted By Dave Hoffman On November 2, 2012 @ 8:00 pm In Conferences | 4 Comments

I’m really looking forward to next week’s 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies [1], to be held at Stanford.  Here’s the preliminary program [2].  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.

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#1 Comment By amused On November 4, 2012 @ 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).

#2 Comment By Dave Hoffman On November 4, 2012 @ 2:41 pm

Amused

Nope, they used an instrumental variable – purchases of Time magazine. Worth reading the paper.

#3 Comment By amused On November 5, 2012 @ 1:17 am

Magazine purchases as IV? Gag. Not worth reading.

#4 Comment By Wilson On November 6, 2012 @ 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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[1] 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies: http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/cels2012/

[2] program: http://www.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/event/265957/media/slspublic/PreliminarySchedule.pdf

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