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Tel: 215.898.7497
Office Room: Silverman 133
Email: dabrams@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Law and Economics
Bio
David Abrams is an empirical economist whose work brings to bear modern econometric techniques on a variety of topics in law and economics.
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David Abrams is an empirical economist whose work brings to bear modern econometric techniques on a variety of topics in law and economics. Recent research has included investigations into attorney performance, judicial bail setting, the deterrent effect of incarceration, and the impact of race in criminal sentencing. Additionally, Abrams has begun a series of projects which make use of the unique experimental environment of virtual worlds to answer an array of economic and legal questions. Abrams has recently joined Penn Law, coming from the University of Chicago where he was the Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and Lecturer in Law. While at the University of Chicago Law School, he received the 2007 Coase Prize for his outstanding paper in Law and Economics. He graduated from MIT with a PhD in economics in 2006, prior to which he pursued a graduate degree in physics at Stanford, following a stint in quantitative finance at D.E. Shaw and Co.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law – Assistant Professor (2008 -)
Wharton School – Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy (2008 -)
University of Chicago – John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics (2006–08)
D.E. Shaw and Co. – Quantitative Analyst and trader (1998–99)
Representative Publications
Optimal Bail and the Value of Freedom: Evidence from the Philadelphia Bail Experiment (forthcoming) (with C. Rohlfs).
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More Time, Less Crime? Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements (forthcoming).
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Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? (forthcoming) (with M. Bertrand and S. Mullainathan).
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The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability, 74 U. CHI. L. REV. 1145 (2007) (with A. Yoon).
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Present status of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment, 329 PHYSICA B- CONDENSED MATTER 1590 (2003) (with D. Akerib, et al).
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Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, 66 PHYSICAL REVIEW D 122003-1-35 (2002) (with D. Akerib, et al).
Deployment of the first CDMS II ZIP detectors at the Stanford Underground Facility, 110 NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS 100 (2002) (with T. Saab, et al).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
Understanding High Skill Worker Productivity Using Random Case Assignment in a Public Defender's Office (with A. Yoon), 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES, Cornell U. L. Sch. (SSRN: 2008).
Finding Love in the Wreckage: Estimating Spousal Altruism with Data on Fatal Car Accidents (with I. Beylin and A. Malani), 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES, Cornell U. L. Sch. (SSRN: 2008).
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