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8 Apr 2015, 1:16 am
After my first post on employment definitions, a law school dean emailed me to suggest that perhaps the ABA felt it needed to be extra... [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 7:22 am
The three averages—means, medians, and modes—are basic mathematical concepts. Nevertheless, they seem to have generated an inordinate amount of confusion among some critics of the... [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 4:42 am
Frank McIntyre and I summarize Timing Law School in The Washington Post. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 5:07 am
Over at TaxProf, Paul Caron covers a student loan working paper inaccurately. Caron's headline is "NY Fed: Federal Aid For College Has Jacked Up Tuition... [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 3:00 am
Winners of Carnegie Fellowships for 2017 include: Katerina Linos (U.C. Berkeley) Polly Price (Emory) Emily Ryo (USC) Mila Versteeg (University of Virginia) The Andrew Carnegie... [read post]
8 Apr 2018, 1:00 pm
Professor Dynarski argues for Income Based Repayment as the default option here. [read post]
10 Feb 2018, 8:56 am
Private firms often withhold information or contest scientific knowledge when public revelation could lead to costly regulations or liability. This concealment leads to negative externalities... [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 4:10 am
Statistician and data visualization expert Hans Rosling recently took the media to task for misleading readers and viewers using unrepresentative anecdotes and ignoring contradictory data.... [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 7:50 pm
Bloomberg reports on former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton's policy proposal for higher education. The proposal combines federal matching grants to encourage state... [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 5:44 pm
One of the key claims of critics of legal education in general, and of ABA-approved law schools in particular, is that accreditation requirements drive up... [read post]
10 May 2015, 6:54 pm
There is a wide range of views about the benefits, costs, and appropriate use of conditional merit scholarships—scholarships that under their terms, will only be... [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 10:00 pm
Opportunity costs and tradeoffs are foundational principles of micro-economics. Comparison between earnings with a law degree and earnings with likely alternatives to law school is... [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 10:01 pm
In the era of Google Maps, instant language translation, and digital music libraries, law students still spend countless hours flipping pages to find the right... [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 10:05 am
Spearheaded by Tony Casey, Samir Parikh, Robert Rasmussen, and Michael Simkovic, this invitation-only [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 8:05 am
There have been a lot of doom-and-gloom reports about layoffs and collapsing job opportunities for lawyers. As we’ve noted before, the relevant question for valuing... [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 10:16 pm
So how should our understanding of student loans apply to law students? Mortgages are routinely repaid over 30-years, even though owner-occupied housing is close to... [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 4:47 pm
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]
4 Jan 2017, 11:22 am
A partner in a prominent San-Francisco-Bay-area venture capital firm recently told me, “The tech sector is eating the world. The menu is full of inefficient... [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 6:09 am
Scholars Strategy Network's No Jargon: 13: The Misinformation Age https://overcast.fm/+Feqoo83GI Professor Brian Southwell explains why people tend to believe false information and discusses strategies for... [read post]
23 Apr 2017, 7:17 pm
Elisabeth de Fontenay at Duke argues that elite law firms' expertise in sophisticated corporate transactions is self-sustaining and resistant to competition. This is in part... [read post]
