Sam Peltzman

University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

Ralph & Dorothy Keller Distinguised Service Professor of Economics Emeritus

5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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Scholarly Papers (11)

1.

The Socio Political Demography of Happiness

George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy & the State Working Paper No. 331
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Oct 2023
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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happiness, demographics, family, Easterlin paradox, education, income, social capital, political ideology

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Political Ideology over the Life Course

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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political ideology, liberal, conservative, age

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Stigler's Theory of Economic Regulation After Fifty Years

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 925
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2024
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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Key Words: Regulation, Capture, Interest Groups, Political Economy, Public Choice, George Stigler.

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Clean Water Act Brief

Reg-Markets Center Brief No. 08-03
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Jul 2008
Stanford University - Department of Economics, New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Columbia University - Law School, Stanford University - The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Brookings Institution, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Technology Policy Institute, NERA Economic Consulting, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Yale School of Management (Deceased), George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice, NERA Economic Consulting, Cato Institute, Stanford University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Milken Institute, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, University of Arizona - Eller College of Management, Princeton University - Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Brookings Institution, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Vanderbilt University - Law School, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of EconomicsStern School of Business, New York University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Toward a More General Theory of Regulation

NBER Working Paper No. w0133
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 15 May 2022
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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National Ambient Air Quality Standards (Naaqs) Brief

AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. B00-01
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 17 Nov 2006
Stanford University - Department of Economics, New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Pennsylvania - Business & Public Policy Department, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Columbia University - Law School, Stanford University - The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Brookings Institution, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Charles River Associates (CRA), Mendocino College, Canadian Investment Review - Rogers Media, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Technology Policy Institute, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business (Deceased), American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Yale School of Management (Deceased), University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice, Cato Institute, Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Milken Institute, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, University of Arizona - Eller College of Management, Brookings Institution, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Brookings Institution, Arizona State University (ASU) - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt University - Law School, Washington University in St. Louis - Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley - Economic Analysis & Policy Group and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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EPA, D.C. Circuit, regulatory actions

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Productivity and Prices in Manufacturing During an Era of Rising Concentration

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2021
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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Concentration, Prices, Productivity, Manufacturing, Antitrust Policy

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of the Petitioners, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. Linkline Communications, Inc., No. 07-512 (Filed Sept. 4, 2008)

U.S. Supreme Court
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 23 May 2012
New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Independent, Brookings Institution, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, NERA Economic Consulting, University of Virginia - Department of Economics, New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Deceased, University of Virginia School of Law, Technology Policy Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Boston University - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Yale School of Management (Deceased), University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Criterion Economics, Inc., University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Productivity, Prices and Productivity in Manufacturing: a Demsetzian Perspective

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 917
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2021
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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Concentration, Prices, Productivity, Margins, Manufacturing, Antitrust Policy

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The Gains and Losses from Industrial Concentration

NBER Working Paper No. w0163
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2022
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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Polarizing Currents within Purple America

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
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political polarization, political ideology, economic policy, social policy