Empirical Legal Studies

Empirical Legal Studies is an organization focused on the application of empirical methods to legal research. It publishes content that explores the intersection of law and data analysis, emphasizing evidence-based approaches to understanding legal systems, policies, and outcomes. The organization serves academics, practitioners, and policymakers interested in quantitative and qualitative research methods within the legal field. Its publications often include studies on legal behavior, judicial decision-making, and the impact of laws on society, contributing to the broader field of legal scholarship through empirical investigation.

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A user-written Stata command available on SSC, [winprob], may interest legal scholars examining outcomes from two separate groups (e.g., treatment, control) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). As the technical documentation explains, “winprob performs a non-parametric test for the win probability

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A helpful discussion (click here) on the StataList regarding the comparative advantages between estimating a linearity probability model (reg) versus a standard logistic (logit) model to predict a binary (1,0) outcome. (Further complicating the StatList discussion is the possibility

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