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Tel: 215.898.7497
Office Room: Silverman 133
Email: dabrams@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Economics
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
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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