Jon Klick's Research Page

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JONATHAN KLICK

3400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6204

215.746.3455 • 215.573.2025 (fax)

jklick@law.upenn.edu

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My broad research interest is empirical law and economics. Specific applications I have written about fall in the areas of:

health law, economics, and policy; crime; litigation; discrimination;

risky sex; addiction; corporate governance; charitable trusts; education;

medical malpractice; regulation; preemption; and punitive damages

My theoretical work focuses primarily on topics in constitutional political economy

Cites to my published work can be found on my C.V.

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Forthcoming Articles:

• “The Effect of Abortion Liberalization on Sexual Behavior: International Evidence,” (with Sven Neelsen and Thomas Stratmann) American Law and Economics Review, forthcoming.

• “Does Anyone Get Stopped at the Gate: An Empirical Assessment of the Daubert Trilogy in the States,” (with Eric Helland) Supreme Court Economic Review, forthcoming.

Articles:

2010

36) “Recessions and the Social Safety Net: The Alternative Minimum Tax as a Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Stabilizer,” (with Brian Galle) Stanford Law Review, 63(1): 187-246 (2010).

-- Condensed version published as “The AMT’s Silver Lining,” (with Brian Galle) Regulation, 33(3): 24-29 (2010).

35) “The Perils of Empirical Work on Institutions,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166(1): 166-170 (2010).

2009

34) “Passive Discrimination: When Does It Make Sense to Pay Too Little?” (with Jonah Gelbach and Lesley Wexler) University of Chicago Law Review, 76(2): 797-857 (2009).

-- Summary of formal model at The Legal Workshop

-- Summary of intuition and legal implications at The Legal Workshop

-- Response by Richard Epstein at The Legal Workshop

-- Response to Epstein at The Legal Workshop

33) “Strong Claims and Weak Evidence: Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IAT,” (with Hart Blanton, James Jaccard, Barbara Mellers, Gregory Mitchell, and Philip Tetlock) Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(3): 567-582 (2009).

-- Replies from McConnell & Leibold and Ziegert & Hanges

32) “Transparency Should Trump Trust: Rejoinder to McConnell and Leibold (2009) and Ziegert and Hanges (2009),” (with Hart Blanton, James Jaccard, Barbara Mellers, Gregory Mitchell, and Philip Tetlock) Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(3): 598-603 (2009).

31) “Federalism, Variation, and State Regulation of Franchise Termination,” (with Bruce Kobayashi and Larry Ribstein) Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal, 3(2): 355-380 (2009).

2008

30) “Agency Costs, Charitable Trusts, and Corporate Control: Evidence From Hershey's Kiss-Off,” (with Robert Sitkoff) Columbia Law Review, 108(4): 749-838 (2008).

-- Eventus output referred to in footnotes 294 and 296

-- Article covered in BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal

29) “Differential Victimization: Efficiency and Fairness Justifications for the Felony Murder Rule,” (with Nuno Garoupa) Review of Law and Economics, 4(1): 407-418 (2008).

28) “Social Networks, Self Denial, and Median Preferences: Conformity as an Evolutionary Strategy,” (with Francesco Parisi) Journal of Socio-Economics, 37(4): 1319-1327 (2008).

27) “Do Spa Visits Improve Health: Evidence from German Micro Data,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Eastern Economic Journal, 34(3): 364-374 (2008).

26) “Abortion Access and Risky Sex Among Teens: Parental Involvement Laws and Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 24(1): 2-21(2008).

-- Materials for replication (data files, do file, Stata log, published version, etc. in a .zip file)

-- Article covered in The Atlantic, The Financial Times, Slate

2007

25) “Diabetes Treatments and Moral Hazard,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Law & Economics, 50(3): 519-538 (2007).

24) “Medical Malpractice Reform and Physicians in High Risk Specialties,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Legal Studies, 36(S2): S121-S142 (2007).

23) “The Tradeoff Between Regulation and Litigation: Evidence from Insurance Class Actions,” (with Eric Helland) Journal of Tort Law, 1(3): Article 2 (2007).

22) “The Effect of Judicial Expedience on Attorney Fees in Class Actions,” (with Eric Helland) Journal of Legal Studies, 36(1): 171-187 (2007).

2006

21) “Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortion and Female Mental Health,” Health Matrix, 16(1): 183-208 (2006).

20) “Government Regulation of Irrationality: Moral and Cognitive Hazards,” (with Greg Mitchell) Minnesota Law Review, 90(6): 1620-1663 (2006).

19) “Salvation as a Selective Incentive,” International Review of Law and Economics, 26(1): 15-32 (2006).

18) “The Two Dimensions of Regulatory Competition,” (with Francesco Parisi and Norbert Schulz) International Review of Law and Economics, 26(1): 56-66 (2006).

17) “A Law and Economics Perspective on Terrorism,” (with Francesco Parisi and Nuno Garoupa) Public Choice, 128(1-2): 147-168 (2006).

16) “Subsidizing Addiction: Do State Health Insurance Mandates Increase Alcohol Consumption?,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Legal Studies, 35(1): 175-198 (2006).

15) “Preemption in the Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment,” (with Michael Greve), Supreme Court Economic Review, 14: 43-94 (2006).

14) “Are Mental Health Insurance Mandates Effective?: Evidence from Suicides,” (with Sara Markowitz) Health Economics, 15(1): 83-97 (2006).

2005

13) “Wealth, Utility, and the Human Dimension,” (with Francesco Parisi) NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, 1(1): 590-608 (2005).

12) “The Micro Foundations of Standard Form Contracts: Price Discrimination vs. Behavioral Bias,” Florida State University Law Review: 32(2): 555-569 (2005).

11) “Limited Autocracy,” Review of Law and Economics, 1(2): 293-304 (2005).

10) “Intra-Jurisdictional Tax Competition,” (with Francesco Parisi) Constitutional Political Economy, 16(4): 387-395 (2005).

9) “Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime,” (with Alexander Tabarrok) Journal of Law and Economics, 48(1): 267-279 (2005).

-- Covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Legal Affairs

8) “Data Watch: Tort-Uring the Data,” (with Alexander Tabarrok and Eric Helland) Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19(2): 207-220 (2005).

7) “The IOM Report: Too Quick to Diagnose Bias,” (with Sally Satel) Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48(1): S15-S25 (2005).

2004

6) “Functional Law and Economics: The Search for Value-Neutral Principles of Law Making,” (with Francesco Parisi) Chicago-Kent Law Review, 79(2): 431-450 (2004).

5) “Econometric Analyses of U.S. Abortion Policy: A Critical Review,” Fordham Urban Law Journal, 31: 751-782 (2004).

2003

4) “The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Journal of Legal Studies, 32(2): 407-434 (2003).

3) “The Disunity of Unanimity,” (with Francesco Parisi) Constitutional Political Economy, 14(2): 83-94 (2003).

2002

2) “The Differential Calculus of Consent,” (with Francesco Parisi) Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 20(2-3): 115-123 (2002).

2001

2000

1) “Do Dollars Make a Difference?: The Relationship Between Expenditures and Test Scores in Pennsylvania’s Public Schools,” American Economist, Vol. 44(1): 81-87 (2000).

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BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, MONOGRAPHS, REVIEWS, ETC.

16) “Slim Odds,” (with Eric Helland) Regulation 34(1): 20-23 (2011).

15) “Global Justice and Trade,” (with Fernando Teson) Global Justice and International Economic Law, Chi Carmody, Frank Garcia, and John Linarelli, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011).

14) “Regulation and Litigation: Complements or Substitutes?” (with Eric Helland) The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law, Frank Buckley, ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming).

13) “Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link,” (with John MacDonald and Thomas Stratmann) Research Handbook on Criminal Law, Alon Harel and Keith Hylton, eds. (New York: Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

12) “Abortion Access and Risky Sex,” (with Thomas Stratmann) Research Handbook on the Economics of Family Law, Lloyd Cohen and Joshua Wright, eds. (New York: Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

11) “Fire Suppression Policy, Weather, and Western Wildland Fire Trends: An Empirical Analysis,” (with Jason Johnston) Wildfire: Law, Policy, and Economics, Karen Bradshaw and Dean Lueck, eds. (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, forthcoming).

10) “The Law and Economics of Regulatory Competition,” Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd ed., Francesco Parisi and Richard Posner, eds. (New York: Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

9) “A More Equitable and Efficient Approach to Insuring the Uninsurable,” (with Eric Helland) The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions, Einer Elhauge, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

8) “Police, Prisons, and Punishment: The Empirical Evidence on Crime Deterrence,” (with Alex Tabarrok) Handbook on the Economics of Crime, Bruce Benson and Paul Zimmerman, eds. (New York: Edward Elgar, 2010)

7) “Terrorism,” (with Nuno Garoupa and Francesco Parisi) Criminal Law and Economics, Nuno Garoupa, ed. (New York: Edward Elgar, 2009).

6) “Functional Law and Economics,” (with Francesco Parisi) Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics, Mark D. White, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

5) “Econometric Studies of Law,” “Functional Law and Economics,” “Multivariate Methods in Legal Studies,” and “Formal Methods in Legal Scholarship,” Encyclopedia of Law and Society, David Clark, ed. (London: Sage Publications, 2007).

4) The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap (with Sally Satel): AEI Press, 2006.

-- Covered in Science

3) “Are Doctors Biased?” (with Sally Satel) Policy Review, 136(April & May): 41-54 (2006).

2) “First, Do No Harm . . .” (with Thomas Stratmann) Regulation, 26(1): 9 (2003).

1) “Drug Re-Importation’s No-Win Solution,” Regulation, 25(1): 6-7 (2002).

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ONLINE ESSAYS, WEB SYMPOSIA, ETC.

3) Cato Unbound Symposium on the New Paternalism

Contributions:

“The Dangers of Letting Someone Else Decide.”

“Revealing Revealed Preferences.”

2) “Biased Doctors,” (with Sally Satel) National Review Online, February 23, 2006.