ICYMI: I wrote a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatatips/

Excited to drop this new piece. We show a near complete elimination of deadline effects among patent examiners with the adoption of a performance appraisal system that aims to incentivize task completion earlier than deadlines by imposing a set of temporally continuous incentives

Affirmative Action And Racial Diversity In U.S. Law Schools, 1980-2021 bit.ly/3vzNLD9 by Richard R. W. Brooks (NYU Law), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern Law) & Sarath Sanga (Yale Law School)

A study by a trio of law professors from Yale, New York and Northwestern universities found that law schools ranked among the top 20 by U.S. News & World Report saw the largest diversity declines after affirmative action bans, with reductions of 36% to 47% reut.rs/3PFMMrJ

Racial diversity among U.S. law school students has dropped by as much as 17% following affirmative action bans in 12 states over the past 28 years, with the biggest reduction in minority shares at the country's top-ranked schools. law360.com/pulse/articles…

Racial diversity among law students declined by as much as 17% in the wake of state affirmative action bans over the past 28 years, a new study has found, with a reduction of up to 47% at top law schools reut.rs/4cUeknB 1/5

Representation of minority students in public law schools has “decreased substantially” in states that banned affirmative action after 1996, according to a study of first-year law students. ow.ly/j6VV50R7US9 #diversity #legaleducation

Representation of minority students in public law schools has “decreased substantially” in states that banned affirmative action after 1996, according to a study of first-year law students. ow.ly/e4oc50R7UVE #diversity #legaleducation

Everything I know about empirical legal studies, I have learned from ⁦Adam Chilton⁩. Now you can learn too as Adam and ⁦Kyle Rozema⁩ have written a fantastic new book to guide lawyers and legal scholars through the world of statistics. Congratulations!

This paper studies whether a more difficult #barexam protects the public, finding that added difficulty excludes certain high-risk #lawyers from the profession but has only modest impacts on public protection. Read: spkl.io/60144AXzG Subscribe: spkl.io/60154AXzH

"The Endgame of Court Packing" (by Adam Chilton Kyle Rozema Maya Sen & me) has been accepted by the American Law & Economics Review! Below, a thread w/ some of the most interesting findings—e.g, w/o Court-packing, Dems are unlikely to regain control of SCOTUS until 2065.

Excited to use Adam Chilton & Kyle Rozema’s excellent new book, “Trial by Numbers: A Lawyer’s Guide to Statistical Evidence” for my UVA Law School Empirical Legal Studies course this year with Megan Stevenson!

“We wanted to write a book that was about the intuition behind statistical concepts with as few equations or complicated math as possible,” said Prof. Adam Chilton about his book, Trial by Numbers, written with Northwestern’s Kyle Rozema. buff.ly/3Ai7VUK

The ABA is considering increasing the experiential credits law students must take to graduate. However, in new research, we find that the ABA's last experiential increase did not improved bar passage rates or employment outcomes.

Peter Joy (WashULaw), Kyle Rozema (Northwestern Law), and I used data reported to the ABA over a twenty-five year period to study the evolution of experiential legal education and the impacts of it's 2014 reform.

They don't care.

New paper studying the effects of the 2014 ABA rule change that mandated experiential education—particularly timely right now. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

As the ABA prepares to discuss the proposal to double the required number of experiential credits, here's a very informative and timely paper from Chilton, Joy, and Rozema. It provides grounds for real skepticism, and so far I have not seen good counter-evidence from the ABA.

"[T]he schools that were likely forced to change their curricula the most in response to the reform did not experience improvements in the very student outcomes the ABA uses to evaluate law school performance." In a sane world, that would be decisive. In this world ...

This study analyzes the impact of American Bar Association’s requirement for #lawstudents to take 6 credits of experiential courses & found the reform did not improve bar passage rates, #employment outcomes, nor raise #tuition. Read: spkl.io/6011APb4W Subscribe: spkl.io/6015APb4S