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2 Jun 2016, 3:18 am by Walter Olson
” [Jennifer Doleac, Brookings Institution/Real Clear Markets] Tags: criminal records and hiring, discrimination law “‘Ban the Box’ does more harm than good” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 7:39 am by rfording
The latest evidence comes from a clever study by Jennifer Doleac and Luke Stein of Stanford, who investigated whether including photos of white, black or tattooed hands holding new iPod Nanos in online classified ads on Craigslist has an effect on the offers that prospective buyers make. [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 7:13 am by David Kopel
Miller (scholars should contribute more to knowledge about gun policy); Jennifer Doleac (there are many effective means other than gun control to reduce gun deaths), David Abrams (data driven policy should impose heavy taxes on some guns and ammunition); Philip Cook & Jens Ludwig (gun misuse causes much economic harm); and Amanda LeSavage (the Consumer Product Safety Commission should be authorized require warning labels saying that guns make households less safe). [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 8:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Sunday, but a pair of researchers say crime across the nation could drop and millions of dollars could be saved if everyone forgot to fall back and just made it permanent.Shifting daylight from the morning to the early evening has "pretty hefty returns for public safety," authors Jennifer Doleac and Nicholas Sanders wrote in Brookings about their upcoming paper in The Review of Economics and Statistics. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 6:13 am by Cara Crotty
According to Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, employment rates for groups that are more likely to have criminal records actually decreased in areas with “ban the box” laws. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 12:32 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Jennifer Doleac, an economics prof from Texas A&M, recently suggested that robot judges may be less biased and racist than human ones. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by Series of Essays
Cook, a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University; Jennifer Doleac, a professor at Texas A&M University; James B. [read post]
12 Jan 2020, 9:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In December, Grits was pleased to meet Texas A&M Associate Professor Jennifer Doleac, an economist who seeks to apply econometric methods to crime policy. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 9:05 pm by Elizabeth Martinez
EDITOR’S CHOICE In an essay in The Regulatory Review, Jennifer Doleac, an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M University and the director of the Justice Tech Lab, argued that gun control regulation is not the only measure that can curb gun violence deaths. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm by Milad Emamian
Writing for the Brookings Institution, Jennifer L. [read post]
26 May 2022, 9:01 pm by Riann Winget
EDITOR’S CHOICE In an essay published as part of a 2018 series on gun control in The Regulatory Review, Jennifer Doleac, an associate professor of economics at Texas A&M University, urged that policymakers should do more than just regulate to reduce gun-related harm. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 6:23 am by Jeff Welty
” That’s the headline of this piece in the Washington Post, which is essentially an edited interview with Jennifer Doleac, an academic economist and crime researcher who will soon be taking a leadership role at Arnold Ventures. [read post]
25 Dec 2018, 9:30 pm by Series of Essays
Gun Regulation is Costly—and Not the Only Option November 9, 2018 | Jennifer Doleac, Texas A&M In the war over gun deaths, vast armies have gathered to contest gun regulations, a territory of uncertain value. [read post]