Volume 30, Number 4, July/August 1998 play an important role in teenage pregnancy. The U.S. Congress made the prevention of teenage pregnancies a major objective of the 1996 federal welfare reform law,3 which recommends that “the states and local jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape laws” as one way to achieve this end.4 As a result, states are reconsidering both the content...

Nonlinear price schedules generally have heterogeneous effects on health-care demand. We develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear price schedule in the German statutory health insurance system. In administrative insurance claims data from the largest German health insurance plan, we find tha...

In the traditional economics of deterrence, raising the sanction is a simple matter of increasing the legislated or judicially imposed penalty for a particular offense. With digital copyright infringement, things are a bit different. Copyright law already includes substantial supracompensatory sanctions in both civil and criminal law. Any copyright infringer—even one who acts innocently—can be ...

There are four principles in the analysis of tax incidence: 1. The entire burden of a tax must be traced to individuals. Businesses may remit taxes, but only individuals–shareholders, employees, customers–can bear the burden of taxes. 2. The ultimate distribution of the tax burden may di¤er from the statutory liability; that is, the tax burden may be shifted because prices change. 3. The long r...

PURPOSE This preliminary study compared clinical evaluations for guardianship in three states with varying levels of statutory reform. DESIGN AND METHODS Case files for 298 cases of adult guardianship were reviewed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, three states with varying degrees of statutory reform. The quality and content of the written clinical evidence for guardianship and t...