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R X C Ecological Inference: Bounds, Correlations, Flexibility, and Transparency of Assumptions
(Royal Statistical Society, 2009)
Despite its potential pitfalls, ecological inference is an unavoidable part of some quantitative settings, including US voting rights litigation. In such applications, the analyst will typically encounter two-way tables ...
Misery and Company
(New Republic, 2008)
The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Climate Change
(Springer Verlag, 2006)
Because risks are on all sides of social situations, it is not possible to be “precautionary” in general. The availability heuristic ensures that some risks stand out as particularly salient, whatever their actual magnitude. ...
Group Judgments: Deliberation, Statistical Means, and Information Markets
(The New York University Law Review, 2005)
How can groups elicit and aggregate the information held by their individual members? There are three possibilities. Groups might use the statistical mean of individual judgments; they might encourage deliberation; or they ...
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
This review-essay explores the uses and limits of cost-benefit analysis in the context of environmental protection, focusing on three recent books: Priceless, by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling; Cellular Phones, Public ...
Mourning Becomes Resistance
(Harvard Law School, 2007)
Piercing China's Corporate Veil
(Yale Law School, 2007)
Sierra to Court: Don't Fence Us Out
(Environmental Law Institute, 2008)
How the Founders Failed
(2008)
Courts Continue to Needle on Climate
(Environmental Law Institute, 2008)