Law and Economics II
Empirical Law and Economics
Abstract: The theory of law and economics exploded
in the 1970s
and 1980s and today is a well accepted approach to law adopted by all
the major
law schools in the
Syllabus
Homework One
Data for Figure One in Ho et al. in Stata
format
Homework Two
Data for Homework
Two (dta
format)
Homework Three
Crime and Tort Data
Harvard
Law School Data Directory
National Consortium on Violence Research
Inter-University Consortium for
Political
and Social Research
National Archive of
Criminal
Justice Data (subset of ICPSR)
National
Center
for State Courts
Civil
Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992, 1996, 2001
Bureau of Justice Statistics
FBI: Uniform Crime Reports
Federal
District-Court
Civil Cases: Online Database Access
State
Court Civil
Jury Trials: Online Database Access
National Incident
Based
Reporting System (NIBRS)
Chicago Map Crime Data
Washington DC
Map Crime
Data
Other Places to find Interesting Data
Random Stuff: Many
Eyes, Swivel and Data360.
National and State Accounts Data: Bureau
of Economic Analysis
Labor Market and Price Data: Bureau
of
Labor Statistics
International Data: NationMaster.com,
Doing Business, The World Bank
Census Data: U.S. Census Bureau
Data Clearing House: Stat USA; Fedstats, Statistical
Abstract of the United States, Resources
for
Economists
World Data including Population Data: CIESIN
Political and Social Data: ICPSR
Campaign Finance Data: Federal
Election Commission
Health Data: Centers
for
Disease Control and CDC
Wonder System
Voting/Ideology Data: Poole
and Rosenthal Roll Call Data
Crime Data: Bureau of
Justice
Statistics
Education Statistics: National
Center
for Education Statistics
Legislative Data: Library of
Congress --
Thomas
Environmental Data: EPA
Religion Data: American Religion
Data
Archive
Financial Data: Financial
Data Finder
Political Speculation Data: Iowa
Electronic Markets
Opinions: General Social
Survey
Charitable Contribution Data: The Urban Institute