This workshop, conducted by Professors Claudia M. Landeo and Kathryn Zeiler, presents the fundamentals of experimental economics methods and discusses the role of experiments in the study of law. The material is intended for professors and students who seek an introduction to the methods of experimental economics needed to (i) understand previous experimental economics work and its role in legal research, and (ii) use experimental economics methods to study legal institutions. No prior training in experimental economics is required or assumed.
The workshop material is divided into three parts. The first part characterizes the essential components of experimental economics methods. It also outlines the role of these methods and the findings from experimental economics studies in the analysis of legal institutions. The second part walks through a set of seminal experimental economics studies relevant to legal institutions. The third part takes an empirical approach to the understanding of the methods of experimental economics by providing participants with the opportunity to be involved as subjects in an actual experimental session. At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a sound knowledge of the main components of the methods of experimental economics, and a solid understanding of the role of these methods and findings to the study of law.
Reading assignments will be electronically sent to the participants three weeks before the workshop.
This is an optional event - please note that it begins the day BEFORE the CELS conference starts and will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
The workshop requires advance registration and a registration fee of$75 in addition to CELS 2013 registration. Attendees must also become SELS members if they are not already, which is required as part of registering for the conference.
For additional information please contact Professor Claudia M. Landeo (landeo@ualberta.ca) or Professor Kathryn Zeiler (zeiler@law.georgetown.edu).
Advance Registration Required, Limited Enrollment. Register through Conference Maker.
This workshop, conducted by Professor Theodore Eisenberg, is intended for professors and students who seek an introduction to the statistical and programming skills needed to conduct quantitative empirical legal research. No prior training in statistics or in statistical programming is required or assumed. It is expected that Stata Corp. will provide, at no cost to workshop participants, a temporary license for the Stata statistical program.
Reading assignments will be from Alan C. Acock, A Gentle Introduction to Stata (Revised Third Edition 2012), which is available from the Stata bookstore online.
The workshop is an optional event - please note that it begins the day BEFORE the CELS conference starts. Both sessions will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The schedule is designed to finish in time for participants to attend the conference’s paper panels.
The workshop requires advance registration and a registration fee of $100 in addition to CELS 2013 registration. Attendees must also become SELS members if they are not already, which is required as part of registering for the conference.
For additional information please contact either Theodore Eisenberg (te13@cornell.edu) or Dawn Chutkow (dmc66@cornell.edu).
Advance Registration Required, Limited Enrollment. Register through Conference Maker.
Because scientists tend to report only studies (publication bias) or analyses (p hacking) that “work,” readers must ask, “Are these effects true, or do they merely reflect selective reporting?” We introduce p-curve as a way to answer this question. The p-curve is the distribution of statistically significant p values for a set of studies (ps<.05). Because only true effects are expected to generate right-skewed p-curves—containing more low (.01s) than high (.04s) significant p values—only right-skewed p-curves are diagnostic of evidential value. By telling us whether we can rule out selective reporting as the sole explanation for a set of findings, p-curve offers a solution to the age-old inferential problems caused by file drawers of failed studies and analyses.
This workshop, conducted by Professor Theodore Eisenberg, is intended for professors and students who seek an introduction to the statistical and programming skills needed to conduct quantitative empirical legal research. No prior training in statistics or in statistical programming is required or assumed. It is expected that Stata Corp. will provide, at no cost to workshop participants, a temporary license for the Stata statistical program.
Reading assignments will be from Alan C. Acock, A Gentle Introduction to Stata (Revised Third Edition 2012), which is available from the Stata bookstore online.
The workshop is an optional event - please note that it begins the day BEFORE the CELS conference starts. Both sessions will be held at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The schedule is designed to finish in time for participants to attend the conference’s paper panels.
The workshop requires advance registration and a registration fee of $100 in addition to CELS 2013 registration. Attendees must also become SELS members if they are not already, which is required as part of registering for the conference.
For additional information please contact either Theodore Eisenberg (te13@cornell.edu) or Dawn Chutkow (dmc66@cornell.edu).
Advance Registration Required, Limited Enrollment. Register through Conference Maker.
Presenter: William Sabol
Presentation title: Use of and Development of BJS Data for Research on Sentencing and Corrections
Abstract: The presentation will briefly review some key uses of BJS data in the study of issues related to mass incarceration and sentencing reform. It will then describe some of the enhancements to several of BJS data collections and their value to the empirical legal studies field; it will conclude with a discussion of some of the opportunities for researchers to access BJS and contribute to BJS’s mission while also achieving their own research goals.