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Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
- J. Prescott, Jonah E. Rockoff
- Psychology
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 February 2008
Sex offenders have become targets of some of the most far-reaching and novel crime legislation in the United States. Two key innovations have been registration and notification laws, which,… Expand
Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination
- Christine Jolls, J. Prescott
- Economics
- 1 February 2005
Studies of the effects of employment protection frequently examine protective legislation as a whole. From a policy reform perspective, however, it is often critical to know which particular aspect… Expand
Noncompetes in the U.S. Labor Force
- Evan Starr, J. Prescott, Norman D. Bishara
- Business
- 28 July 2017
As typically unobserved features of the employment relationship, the role that covenants not to compete play in shaping economic dynamics is intrinsically difficult to grasp. Using nationally… Expand
A Comprehensive Theory of Civil Settlement
- J. Prescott, K. Spier
- Political Science
- 1 April 2016
A settlement is an agreement between parties to a dispute. In everyday parlance and in academic scholarship, settlement is juxtaposed to trial or some other method of dispute resolution in which a… Expand
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Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study
- J. Prescott, Sonja B. Starr
- Political Science
- 16 March 2019
Laws permitting the expungement of criminal convictions are a key component of modern criminal justice reform efforts and have been the subject of a recent upsurge in legislative activity. This… Expand
The Behavioral Effects of (Unenforceable) Contracts
- Evan Starr, J. Prescott, Norman D. Bishara
- Business
- 18 December 2019
We study the relationship between employment noncompetition agreements and employee mobility patterns using novel data from the 2014 Noncompete Survey Project. Specifically, we examine how… Expand
Sex Offender Law and the Geography of Victimization
- Amanda Y. Agan, J. Prescott
- 1 December 2014
Sex offender laws that target recidivism (e.g., community notification and residency restriction regimes) are premised — at least in part — on the idea that sex offender proximity and victimization… Expand
Noncompetes and Employee Mobility
- Evan Starr, J. Prescott
- Business
- 2016
We study the relationship between employment noncompetition agreements and employee mobility patterns using novel data from the 2014 Noncompete Survey Project. Specifically, we examine how… Expand
Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Less Safe?
- J. Prescott
- Psychology
- 1 June 2012
State legislatures enacted sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws with the explicit and exclusive aim of reducing sex offender recidivism. The general idea that we ought to “regulate”… Expand
Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements
- J. Prescott, K. Spier, Albert H. Yoon
- Economics, Business
- 1 March 2014
This paper presents the first systematic theoretical and empirical study of high-low agreements in civil litigation. A high-low agreement is a private contract that, if signed by litigants before the… Expand
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