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Tel: 215.898.7497
Office Room: Silverman 134
Email: dabrams@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Law and Economics
- Intellectual Property
- Criminal Law
Bio
David Abrams is an empirical economist whose work brings modern econometric techniques to bear on a variety of topics in law and economics.
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David Abrams is an empirical economist whose work brings modern econometric techniques to bear on a variety of topics in law and economics. His recent research has included investigations into incentives for innovation, attorney performance, 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 joined Penn Law from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Olin Fellow and received the 2007 Coase Prize for the outstanding paper in law and economics.
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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
Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements, AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: APPLIED ECONOMICS (forthcoming 2012)
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Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?, J. LEGAL STUD. (with M. Bertrand and S. Mullainathan). (forthcoming 2012)
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Is Pleading Really a Bargain?, 8 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 200 (2011).
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Optimal Bail and the Value of Freedom: Evidence from the Philadelphia Bail Experiment, 49 ECON. INQUIRY 750-770 (2011) (with C. Rohlfs).
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Did TRIPS Spur Innovation? An Analysis of Patent Duration and Incentives to Innovate, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 1613 (2009).
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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).
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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
A Market for Justice (with D. Chen). (forthcoming)
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Priority Rules: An Empirical Exploration of First-to-Invent Versus First-to-File (with P. Wagner). (forthcoming)
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Building Criminal Capital vs. Specific Deterrence: The Effect of Incarceration Length on Recidivism (forthcoming)
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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).
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Labor Market Experiments in a Virtual World (with A. Cohn, E. Fehr). (forthcoming)
Do More Eyes on the Road Mean Better Driving? A Field Study (with L. Strahilevitz). (forthcoming)
Payments to Physicians and Potential Conflict of Interest (with D. Chan, D. Chen, S. Olley). (forthcoming)
Patent Duration and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry. (forthcoming)
When Docs Snooze Do You Lose? Medical Resident Work Hours and Patient
Outcomes. (forthcoming)
Representative Professional Activities
Vice President, Society for Empirical Legal Studies
Member: American Economic Association, American Law and Economics
Association, American Physical Society, Econometric Society
Referee: American Economic Review, American Law and Economics Review,
Economic Journal, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Human
Resources, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Analysis, Journal of
Legal Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies
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