Jonathan Klick – Research

 

 

 

425 West Jefferson Street Tallahassee, FL 32301-1609

850.644.5714 · 850.644.5487 (fax)

 

My broad research interest is empirical law and economics.

Specific applications I have written about fall in the areas of

health law and economics, litigation, discrimination, crime,

education, public finance, public choice, sex, and addiction.

 

My theoretical work focuses primarily on constitutional

design and individual behavior.

 

Cites for my published work can be found on my C.V.

and working papers can be downloaded at SSRN.

 

 

 


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Forthcoming Publications:

 

•        “Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence from Hershey’s Kiss-Off,” (with Rob Sitkoff) Columbia Law Review, 108: 2008.  Eventus outputs referenced in footnotes 253 and 255.  Paper covered in the Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Financial Times, MSNBC, Harrisburg Patriot, as well as other outlets.

 

•        “Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 24(1): Spring 2008.  Paper covered in The Atlantic, Financial Times, and Slate.

 

•        “Medical Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High Risk Specialties,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Legal Studies, 36: June 2007.

 

•        “Diabetes Treatments and Moral Hazard,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Law & Economics, 50(2): August 2007.

 

•        “Do Spa Visits Improve Health: Evidence from German Micro Data,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Eastern Economic Journal.

 

•        “Social Networks, Self Denial, and Median Preferences: Conformity as an Evolutionary Strategy,” (with Francesco Parisi) Journal of Socio-Economics.

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

2007

 

•        “The Tradeoff Between Regulation and Litigation: Evidence from Insurance Class Actions,” (with Eric Helland) The Journal of Tort Law, 1(3): Article 2 (2007).

 

•        “The Effect of Judicial Expedience on Attorney Fees in Class Actions,” (with Eric Helland) Journal of Legal Studies, 36(1): 171-188 (2007).

 

2006

 

•        “Salvation as a Selective Incentive,” International Review of Law and Economics, 26(1): 15-32 (2006).

 

•        “A Law and Economics Perspective on Terrorism,” (with Parisi and Garoupa) Public Choice, 128(1-2): 147-168 (2006).

 

•        “The Two Dimensions of Regulatory Competition,” (with Parisi and Schulz) IRLE, 26(1): 56-66 (2006).

 

•        “Subsidizing Addiction: Do State Health Insurance Mandates Increase Alcohol Consumption?,” (with Thomas Stratmann) The Journal of Legal Studies, 35(1): 175-198 (2006).

 

•        “Preemption in the Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment,” (with Michael Greve), Supreme Court Economic Review, 14: 43-94 (2006).

 

•        “Are Mental Health Insurance Mandates Effective?: Evidence from Suicides,” (with Sara Markowitz) Health Economics, 15(1): 83-97 (2006).

 

•        “Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortion and Female Mental Health,” Health Matrix, 16(1): 183-208 (2006).

 

•        “Government Regulation of Irrationality: Moral and Cognitive Hazards,” (with Greg Mitchell) Minnesota Law Review, 90(6): 1620-1663 (2006).

 

•        The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap (with Sally Satel): AEI Press, 2006.

 

2005

 

•        “Limited Autocracy,” Review of Law and Economics, 1(2): Article 5 (2005).

 

•        “Intra-Jurisdictional Tax Competition,” (with Parisi) Constitutional Political Economy, 16(4): 387-395 (2005).

 

•        “Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime,” (with Alexander Tabarrok) The Journal of Law and Economics, 48(1): 267-279 (2005).  This article was the subject of Virginia Postrel’s June 16, 2005 “Economic Scene” column in the NEW YORK TIMES.

 

•        “Data Watch: Tort-Uring the Data,” (with Alexander Tabarrok and Eric Helland) The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(2): 207-220 (2005).

 

•        “The IOM Report: Too Quick to Diagnose Bias,” (with Sally Satel) Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48(1): S15-S25 (2005).

 

•        “Wealth, Utility, and the Human Dimension,” (with Francesco Parisi) NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 1(1): 590-608 (2005).

 

•        “The Micro Foundations of Standard Form Contracts: Price Discrimination vs. Behavioral Bias,” Florida State University Law Review: 32(2): 555-569 (2005).

 

2004

 

•        “Functional Law and Economics: The Search for Value-Neutral Principles of Law Making,” (with Francesco Parisi) Chicago-Kent Law Review, 79(2): 431-450 (2004).

 

•        “Econometric Analyses of U.S. Abortion Policy: A Critical Review,” Fordham Urban Law Journal, 31: 751-782 (2004).

 

2003

 

•        “The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” (with Thomas Stratmann) The Journal of Legal Studies, 32(2): 407-434 (2003).

 

•        “The Disunity of Unanimity,” (with Francesco Parisi) Constitutional Political Economy, 14(2): 83-94 (2003).

 

2002

 

•        “The Differential Calculus of Consent,” (with Francesco Parisi) The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 20(2-3): 115-123 (2002).

 

2001

 

2000

 

•        “Do Dollars Make a Difference?: The Relationship Between Expenditures and Test Scores in Pennsylvania’s Public Schools,” The American Economist, Vol. 44(1): 81-87 (2000). Undergraduate Thesis

 

Encyclopedia Entries, Essays, Reviews, Monographs, Book Chapters, Etc.:

 

“Econometric Studies of the Law”, “Functional Law and Economics”, “Multivariate Methods in Legal Studies”, and “Formal Methods in Legal Scholarship” in Encyclopedia of Law and Society, David Clark, ed. (London: Sage Publications, forthcoming).