Deborah M. Weiss

Northwestern University School of Law

Director, Workforce Science Project, Searle Center for Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth

600 North Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, IL 60601

United States

  • Northwestern University School of Law

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Scholarly Papers (10)

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1.

Criminal Background and Job Performance

Minor, Persico, & Weiss. IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2018) 7:8 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40173-018-0101-0
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 May 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Dylan Minor, Nicola Persico and Deborah M. Weiss
Anderson School of Management (UCLA), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University School of Law
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criminal records, discrimination, Ban the Box, personnel economics, job performance

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Why Majors Matter: Occupation Specificity, Job Skills, and College Selectivity

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No.21-12, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-34
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2023
Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Colton Cronin and Neil Chin
Northwestern University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Vanderbilt University, Law School and Columbia University SIPA
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College majors, College selectivity, Returns to schooling

3.

All Work Cultures Discriminate

24 Hastings Women's Law Journal 247 (2013)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Deborah M. Weiss
Northwestern University School of Law
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glass ceiling, sex differences, employment discrimination, neutrality, lack of interest, disparate impact, affirmative action

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A Political Theory of Corporate Taxation

105 Yale Law Journal, pp. 325-391, 1995, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 16 Sep 1999 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2012
Jennifer Arlen and Deborah M. Weiss
New York University School of Law and Northwestern University School of Law
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A Grudging Defense of Wal-Mart v. Dukes

Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2012
Deborah M. Weiss
Northwestern University School of Law
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The Annoyingly Indeterminate Effect of Sex Differences

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 151
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Deborah M. Weiss
Northwestern University School of Law
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Occupational Segregation, Discrimination, Sex Differences

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Entrepreneurial Employees

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 21 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2011
Deborah M. Weiss
Northwestern University School of Law
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non-competes, innovation

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The Impossibility of Agnostic Discrimination Law

2011 Utah L. Rev. 1677
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 20 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2015
Deborah M. Weiss
Northwestern University School of Law
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employment discrimination, social framework analysis, evidence, experts

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What Do First Names Signal?: Some Cautionary Findings

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-24, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-66
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2024
Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer and Ethan Nourbash
Northwestern University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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audit studies, correspondence studies, discrimination, socioeconomic status, economic mobility, inequality, names

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Sexual Harms Without Misogyny

University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 2019, No. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2021
Deborah M. Weiss
Northwestern University School of Law
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