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31 Jul 2017, 7:29 pm by Michael Simkovic
California is an extreme outlier in the extent to which it restricts entry into the legal profession compared to other U.S. jurisdictions. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous post (links below): Michael Simkovic (USC), Is California’s Bar Examination Minimum Passing Score Anti-competitive? [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 12:05 pm by Paul Caron
Frank McIntyre (Rutgers) & Michael Simkovic (USC), Timing Law School: We investigate whether economic conditions at labor market entry predict long-term differences in law graduate earnings. [read post]
18 Jul 2017, 3:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Occupational licensing regimes can help markets function when those markets suffer from what Economist George Akerlof coined a “lemons” problem. [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 4:19 am by Michael Simkovic
The Wall Street Journal closed several of its blogs on Monday, including its Law Blog. [read post]
23 Jun 2017, 6:46 am by Michael Simkovic
Douglas County in rural Oregon recently shut its last public library rather than increase property taxes by around $6 per month per household. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 7:17 am by Michael Simkovic
Representative Judy Chu (D-CA) (Pasadena) recently introduced H.R. 2526, the Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt (POST GRAD) Act. [read post]
7 May 2017, 5:47 am by Michael Simkovic
Every 6 to 7 years, professors are offered one semester or one year without teaching or administrative duties. [read post]
23 Apr 2017, 7:17 pm by Michael Simkovic
Elisabeth de Fontenay at Duke argues that elite law firms' expertise in sophisticated corporate transactions is self-sustaining and resistant to competition. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 5:20 pm by Michael Simkovic
Mark Hall and Glenn Cohen have extended Brian Leiter's approach to ranking faculty by scholarly citations (based on Sisk data) to the field of health... [read post]
2 Apr 2017, 7:18 pm by Dan Rodriguez
Kudos to Michael Simkovic for spelling this out here. [read post]
2 Apr 2017, 5:36 pm by Michael Simkovic
New York Times reporter Elizabeth Olson recently complained that the Dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law was suspended after attempting to slash... [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 4:47 pm by Michael Simkovic
Daniel Hemel and David Herzig argue in the New York Times that a Republican plan to replace a tax penalty paid by the uninsured under... [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 3:00 am by Michael Simkovic
How should researchers make tradeoffs between the costs of data collection, the speed of the analysis, the precision of the measurements, reproducibility by other researchers,... [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 4:19 am by Carole Silver
        While the scope of Simkovic’s analysis surely includes some LLM graduates, it also undoubtedly includes many people who were never international students in any field, much less international LLM students. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 6:10 am by Carole Silver
LLM Programs Probably Benefit International Students (Part 2): Students who return home” (December 1, 2016), Michael Simkovic explored the economic value gained by international students who earn a US LLM degree through an analysis of data generated by the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). [read post]