1.
Governance Matters VI: Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4280
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
Results for Development, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
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23,277
2.
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Independent
There are 2 versions of this paper
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Cato Institute Whitepaper Series
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Sep 2009
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010
Downloads
19,002
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies
Posted: 29 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2013
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19,002
3.
The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy: Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
BMJ Global Health (accepted for publication)
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 01 Feb 2022
Last Revised: 13 May 2022
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Department of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, University of Oxford, Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, Dalhousie University and John Hopkins University
Downloads
17,793
4.
Does Social Distancing Matter?
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-26
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 27 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Chicago
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15,344
5.
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 26 Sep 2021
Working Paper Series
Baylor University, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 09 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 26 Sep 2021
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14,823
Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime
ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 11-042
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 15 Jul 2011
Downloads
2,086
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14,823
6.
Environmental Pollution: Its Effects on Life and Its Remedies
Researcher World: Journal of Arts, Science & Commerce, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 276-285, 2011
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 08 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 02 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences and Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris
Downloads
12,604
7.
The Effects of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Abuse, Mortality, and Crime
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 06 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
Texas A&M University - Department of Economics and Wisconsin School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Effects of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Abuse, Mortality, and Crime
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 06 Mar 2018
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Downloads
12,549
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11489
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 02 May 2018
Downloads
620
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12,549
8.
Worldwide Governance Indicators Project: Answering the Critics
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4149
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Results for Development, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute
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8,123
9.
The Weirdest People in the World?
RatSWD Working Paper No. 139
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 11 May 2010
Working Paper Series
University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of British Columbia (UBC)
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7,103
10.
International Law on Pandemic Response: A First Stocktaking in Light of the Coronavirus Crisis
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper No. 2020-07
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
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7,015
11.
Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits Under the PPACA
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, Forthcoming, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-27
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 15 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Cato Institute
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6,581
12.
Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness
U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-2
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 04 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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6,152
13.
Fixing the Communications Failure
Nature, Vol. 463, pp. 296-297, 2010
Number of pages: 4
Posted: 25 Jun 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School
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5,781
14.
Buy or Bite?
Economics of the Undead, edited by Glen Whitman & James Dow (2014), pp. 123-129
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
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5,572
15.
Partisanship, Health Behavior, and Policy Attitudes in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 30 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Syracuse University, University of California, Irvine - Department of Political Science and Cornell University - Department of Government
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5,371
16.
The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of - and Making Progress In - The American Culture War of Fact
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 370, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 154, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 370, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-26
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 26 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Decision Research, Pennsylvania State University and University of Colorado - Department of Psychology
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5,233
17.
Critical Analysis of Domestic Violence Act, 2005
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 15 May 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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5,106
18.
The United States as Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions to Combat Human Trafficking
Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27, No. 2, Winter 2006
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 03 Jun 2007
Accepted Paper Series
American University - Washington College of Law
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4,937
19.
Mental Health Outcomes of Quarantine and Isolation for Infection Prevention: A Systematic Umbrella Review of the Global Evidence
Hossain MM, Sultana A, Purohit N. Mental health outcomes of quarantine and isolation for infection prevention: A systematic umbrella review of the global evidence. Epidemiol Health. (2020) DOI:10.4178/epih.e2020038
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 26 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 21 Jul 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Texas A&M University - School of Public Health, Nature Study Society of Bangladesh and Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR)
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4,876
20.
The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information
New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 1814, 2011, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1909366, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 584, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 584
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 15 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School
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4,673
21.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Short History of the World’s Biggest Promise
BWPI Working Paper No. 100
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Manchester - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
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4,655
22.
Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution
IFN Working Paper No. 996, NYU Stern School of Business EC-12-07, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-08
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 14 May 2012
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2021
Working Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business and Stanford University
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4,402
23.
The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition
Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2008, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 8-40
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 10 May 2008
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
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4,270
24.
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate before the Supreme Court's Ruling
Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 257
Number of pages: 406
Posted: 19 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 07 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School and Yale University - Law School
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4,209
25.
Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication: An Empirical Assessment
CCP Risk Perception Studies Report No. 17, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper # 491
Number of pages: 82
Posted: 29 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
Yale Law School
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4,061
26.
Partisanship and Policy on an Emerging Issue: Mass and Elite Responses to COVID-19 as the Pandemic Evolved
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 30 Jun 2020
Last Revised: 25 Jul 2022
Working Paper Series
Princeton University - Department of Political SciencePrinceton University - Department of Political Science, Gallup and Stanford University
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3,843
27.
Privacy's Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confidentiality
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 96, p. 123, 2007, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 249, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 07-03-02
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 13 Mar 2007
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University School of Law and George Washington University Law School
Downloads
3,655
28.
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Among Young People in Zimbabwe: A Crisis of Morality or Public Health Problem
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
North West University and Biomedical Research & Training Institute
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3,493
29.
Hygiene and Sanitation Theory and Practice: Implications of Severe Water Shortage to Hospitality Industry in Kenya, Water Shortage to Hospitality Industry in Kenya
OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 99-103, 2010
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 12 Sep 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Kenyatta University, School of Tourism & Hospitality Management
Downloads
3,466
30.
Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-04
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 07 Feb 2007
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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3,434
31.
Database of State Tort Law Reforms (7.1)
U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. e555
Number of pages: 175
Posted: 31 Jan 2019
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2021
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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3,409
32.
Implications of WTO Law for Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PLAIN PACKAGING OF CIGARETTES: LEGAL ISSUES, Andrew Mitchell, Tania Voon and Jonathan Liberman, eds., Edward Elgar, UK, 2012, U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No. 554
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 30 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 26 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Law School and Faculty of Law, Monash University
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3,332
33.
The Health Impact of Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws
Risk Analysis, 2012
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 14 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Macquarie University - Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies
Downloads
3,047
34.
Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma, and Actual Innocence: Getting It Right
12 Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy 209, Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1195
Number of pages: 105
Posted: 30 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 16 Dec 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wisconsin Law School, Stanford University - Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology, University of Michigan Law School and University of Oxford - John Radcliffe Hospital
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2,981
35.
The Law of Regression to the Tail: How to Survive COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Other Disasters
Flyvbjerg, Bent, 2020, 'The Law of Regression to the Tail: How to Survive COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Other Disasters,' Environmental Science and Policy, vol. 114, December, pp. 614-618, doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.08.013.
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 14 May 2020
Last Revised: 08 Feb 2022
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
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2,975
36.
Executive Underreach, in Pandemics and Otherwise
American Journal of International Law, Vol. 114, pp. 608-17, 2020
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 23 Jul 2020
Last Revised: 21 Oct 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University - Law School and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Downloads
2,809
37.
The Irrepressible Myth of Jacobson v. Massachusetts
Buffalo Law Review Vol. 70, No. 113 (2021)
Number of pages: 140
Posted: 23 Sep 2021
Last Revised: 22 Feb 2022
Accepted Paper Series
South Texas College of Law Houston
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2,798
38.
Disaggregating the Police Function
U. Pa. L. Rev. (2020-21 Forthcoming), NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-03, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-3
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 27 Jun 2021
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law
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2,785
39.
A Model for Defunding: An Evidence-Based Statute for Behavioral Health Crisis Response
Temple Law Review, Vol. 94, 2022, Elon University Law Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 03 Sep 2020
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law and North Carolina State University
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2,611
40.
The Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty
Fordham Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 49-128, 2007, Fordham Legal Studies Research Paper No. 983732
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 01 May 2007
Last Revised: 27 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University School of Law
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2,573
41.
Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2020-21, General Subserie Research Paper No. 2020-03, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2020-33
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 01 May 2020
Last Revised: 28 Aug 2021
Accepted Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Faculty of LawUniversity of California, Irvine School of Law, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Law and Arizona State University (ASU) - School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
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2,546
42.
Insite or Outside the Law: Examining the Place of Safe Injection Sites within the Canadian Legal System
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 10 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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2,526
43.
The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Lighting a Dark Corner at the WTO
Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 5, p. 469, 2002
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Florida State University - College of Law
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2,514
44.
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition
Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 34, pp. 501-16, 2010, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 38, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-19, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 163
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 17 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology, Decision Research and Pennsylvania State University
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2,500
45.
The Vulnerable Subject and the Responsive State
Emory Law Journal, Vol. 60, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 10-130
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 21 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
Downloads
2,488
46.
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 27 Sep 2005
Working Paper Series
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), University of Bonn - Economic Science Area, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1730
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 27 Sep 2005
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2,430
Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5517
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Downloads
84
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2,430
47.
From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine
Indiana Health Law Review, vol.12, no.1, 2015 Forthcoming, University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2015-03
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 16 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 16 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Louisville - Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law
Downloads
2,379
48.
Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy
Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, 2009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 09-006
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of San Diego School of Law and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
Downloads
2,364
49.
Toward a Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property
U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 971, 2007, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-03
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 21 Mar 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
Downloads
2,337
50.
WTO Waiver from Intellectual Property Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments: A Critical Review
62 Virginia Journal of International Law Online 9-32 (2021)
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 22 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 21 Jun 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
Downloads
2,305
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