Below is a selection of recent research by LEAP affiliates.
Publications/Working Papers:
Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, 2020 Working Paper
What drives support for inefficient corrective policies? Evidence from a Nevada ballot initiative
Matthew Tarduno, 2020 Working Paper
Dividend Taxes and Corporate “Non-Capital” Investment
Michael Love, 2020 Working Paper
Authentic Compliance with a Symbolic Legal Standard? How Critical Race Theory Can Change Social Science Studies on Diversity in the Workplace
Yael Plitmann, 2020 Working Paper
Stealing authority: A model of institutional transformation
Joseph Warren, 2020 Working Paper
Evergreening at-Risk
Uri Y. Hacohen, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2020
Progress in the Useful Arts: Foundations of Patent Law in Growth Economics
Robert D. Cooter and Uri Y. Hacohen, 22 Yale J.L. & Tech. 191 (2020)
Predicting Cybersecurity Incidents Through Mandatory Disclosure Regulation
Aniket Kesari, 2020 Working Paper
The Effect of State Data Breach Notification Laws on Medical Identity Theft
Aniket Kesari, 2020 Working Paper
Informative Patents? Predicting Invalidity Decisions with the Text of Claims James Hicks, 2020 Working Paper
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Wilson
Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu, NBER, 2020 Working Paper
Inequality, Fiscal Policy and COVID19 Restrictions in a Demand-Determined Economy Alan Auerbach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, NBER, 2020 Working Paper
Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption
Carl Shapiro, Innovation Policy and the Economy, NBER, 2020
Hunting Unicorns? Experimental Evidence on Exclusionary Pricing Policies
Aaron Edlin, Catherine Roux, Armin Schmutzler, and Christian Thoeni, The Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 62 No 3, 457-484, 2019
The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 VRA
Abhay Aneja and Carlos Avenancio-Leon, 2019 Working Paper
Policy/Commentary:
Don’t Just Flatten the Curve: Raise the Line
Aaron Edlin, 2020