Empirical Legal Studies

Empirical Legal Studies is a blog published by the organization of the same name that focuses on the application of empirical methods to legal questions. It covers topics such as the analysis of legal institutions, judicial behavior, law enforcement, and the impact of laws and policies using data-driven research. The blog discusses developments in empirical research methodologies within the legal field and explores how quantitative and qualitative data can inform legal theory and practice. It serves as a resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in evidence-based legal analysis and the intersection of law and social science.

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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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