Law and Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Christine Jolls
March 3, 2017
NBER
Conference program, summary
Friday, March 3
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Racial Bias in Bail Decisions

David Arnold, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Jonah Gelbach, University of California, Berkeley
9:25 am

Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation

A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University and NBER
Paul N. Riskind, Stanford University

Discussant:
Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am

Evaluating Health Insurance Decisions: Evidence from a Menu with Dominated Options

Saurabh Bhargava, University of Chicago
George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

Discussant:
Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:35 am

The Marginal Propensity to Consume Over the Business Cycle

Tal Gross, Boston University and NBER
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

Discussant:
Tal Gross, Boston University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

Information Suppression by Teams and Violations of the Brady Rule

Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University

Discussant:
Scott R. Baker, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
2:10 pm

Appraising the “Merger Price” Appraisal Rule

Albert Choi, University of Michigan
Eric Talley, Columbia University

Discussant:
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
3:05 pm
Break
3:25 pm

Securing Property Rights

Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, Center for Research in International Economics
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
4:20 pm

Affirmative Action Exemptions and Capacity Constrained Firms

Justin Marion, University of California Santa Cruz

Discussant:
W. Bentley MacLeod, Yale University and NBER