Empirical Legal Studies

While Prof. Lawless' (Ill.) essay, What Empirical Legal Scholars Do Best , is over one decade old, it is surviving the test of time well...

In time series or panel data structural breaks (or change points) in relations between (or among) key variables can occur. If they do occur,...

For those who include factor variables on the right-side of a regression equation, a more robust set of post-estimation commands in Stata un...

While the specific context discussed below is not law-related, per se , the degree to which it illustrates the potentially corrosive effects...

In various literatures I'm seeing a palpable trend of reporting results from various competing models, alternative specifications, or ro...

Many wealth transfers occur privately and through various trust instruments. For many, trusts are the legal instruments of choice and have p...

In the criminal law context, one central tradeoff incident to the "beyond all reasonable doubt" threshold involves a core tradeoff...