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Lu, Wei and Chen, Daniel L. (2025) Motivated reasoning in the field: polarization of prose, precedent, and policy in U.S. Circuit Courts, 1891–2013. Plos One, vol.20(3).

Ramos-Maqueda, Manuel and Chen, Daniel L. (2025) The data revolution in justice. World Development, vol. 186 (n°106834).

Mehmood, Sultan, Naseer, Shaheen and Chen, Daniel L. (2024) Teacher vaccinations enhance student achievement in Pakistan: The role of role models and theory of mind. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) ISSN 1091-6490, vol. 121 (n° 48).

Chen, Daniel L. (2024) The judicial superego: Implicit egoism, internalized racism, and prejudice in three million sentencing decisions. Kyklos, vol. 77 (n° 4). pp. 1004-1025.

Cavaillé, Charlotte, Chen, Daniel L. and Van der Straeten, Karine (2024) Who cares? Measuring differences in preference intensity. Political Science Research and Methods.

Chen, Daniel L. (2024) Priming ideology I: Why do presidential elections affect U.S. judges. European Economic Review, vol. 169 (n° 104835). pp. 1-21.

Mehmood, Sultan, Naseer, Shaheen and Chen, Daniel L. (2024) Altruism in governance: Insights from randomized training for Pakistan's junior ministers. Journal of Development Studies, vol. 170 (103317).

Chen, Daniel L., Ertac, Seda, Evgeniou, Theodoros, Miao, Xin, Nadaf, Ali and Yilmaz, Emrah (2024) Grit and academic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. npj - science of learning, vol. 9 (n° 57).

Chen, Daniel L. (2024) Is ambiguity aversion a preference? Ambiguity aversion without asymmetric information. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, vol.111 (n°102218).

Chen, Daniel L. and Reinhart, Eric (2024) The Disavowal of Decisionism in American Law: Political Motivation in the Judiciary. International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 20 (n° 2). pp. 289-321.

Bhupatiraju, Sandeep, Chen, Daniel L. and Venkataramanan, Kannan (2024) Mapping the Geometry of Law Using Natural Language Processing. European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 1 (n° 1). pp. 49-68.

Ash, Elliott, Chen, Daniel L. and Ornaghi, Arianna (2024) Gender attitudes in the judiciary: evidence from U.S. circuit courts. American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, vol. 16 (n° 1). pp. 314-350.

Bhupatiraju, Sandeep, Chen, Daniel L., Joshi, Shareen and Neis, Peter (2024) Caste Aside? Names, Networks and Justice in the Courts of Bihar, India. European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 1 (n° 2). pp. 151-178.

Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2024) Invariance of equilibrium to the strategy method I: theory. Journal of the Economic Science Association, Vol. 10. pp. 15-30.

Chen, Daniel L., Kumar, Manoj, Motwani, Vishal and Yeres, Philip (2024) Is Justice Really Blind? And Is It Also Deaf? Computational Analysis of Law. (In Press)

Chen, Daniel L. and Reinhart, Eric (2024) Markets and Morality: how markets shape our (dis)regard for others. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. (In Press)

Chen, Daniel L., Chen, Jiafeng and Lewis, Gregory (2024) Mostly harmless machine learning: learning optimal instruments in linear IV models. Journal of Machine Learning Research. (In Press)

Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2023) Invariance of Equilibrium to the Strategy Method II: Experimental Evidence. Journal of the Economic Science Association.

Chen, Daniel L., Michaeli, Moti and Spiro, Daniel (2023) Non-confrontational extremists. European Economic Review, vol.157.

Chen, Daniel L. and Philippe, Arnaud (2023) Clash of norms judicial leniency on defendant birthdays. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 211. pp. 324-344.

Chen, Daniel L. (2023) Do markets overcome repugnance? Muslim trade response to anti-Muhammad cartoons. European Economic Review, vol.156.

Plonsky, Ori, Chen, Daniel L., Netzer, Liat, Steiner, Talya and Feldman, Yuval (2023) Motivational Drivers for Serial Position Effects in High-Stakes Legal Decisions. Journal of Applied Psychology, vol. 107 (n° 8). pp. 1137-1156.

Chen, Daniel L. (2023) Judicial compliance in district courts. International Review of Law and Economics, vol.74.

Mehmood, Sultan, Seror, Avner and Chen, Daniel L. (2023) Ramadan fasting increases leniency in judges from Pakistan and India. Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 7. pp. 874-880.

Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2022) Social preferences or sacred values ? Theory and evidence of deontological motivations. Science Advances, vol.8 (n°19).

Ash, Elliott, Chen, Daniel L. and Galletta, Sergio (2022) Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts. Economica, vol. 89 (n° 354). pp. 362-376.

Terrier, Camille, Chen, Daniel L. and Sutter, Matthias (2021) COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), vol. 118 (n° 46). pp. 1-6.

Reinhart, Eric and Chen, Daniel L. (2021) Association of Jail Decarceration and Anticontagion Policies With COVID-19 Case Growth Rates in US Counties. JAMA Network Open, vol.4 (n°9).

Reinhart, Eric and Chen, Daniel L. (2021) Carceral-community epidemiology, structural racism, and COVID-19 disparities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.118 (n°21). pp. 1-9.

Bhupatiraju, Sandeep and Chen, Daniel L. (2021) The Process of Machine Learning for the Courts of India. National Law School of India Review, vol.33 (n°2).

Cao, Yu, Ash, Elliott and Chen, Daniel L. (2020) Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions. European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 50 (n° 3). pp. 451-467.

Chen, Daniel L. (2020) Gender Violence and the Price of Virginity: Theory and Evidence of Incomplete Marriage Contracts. Journal of Religion and Demography, vol.7 (n°2). pp. 190-221.

Babic, Boris, Chen, Daniel L., Evgeniou, Theodoros and Fayard, Anne-Laure (2020) A Better Way to Onboard AI. Harvard Business Review, vol. 98 (n° 4). pp. 56-65.

Babic, Boris, Chen, Daniel L., Evgeniou, Theodoros and Fayard, Anne-Laure (2020) Onboarding AI. Harvard Business Review, vol. 98 (n° 4). pp. 56-65.

Reinhart, Eric and Chen, Daniel L. (2020) Incarceration and its disseminations: COVID-19 pandemic lessons from Chicago’s Cook County jail. Health Affairs, vol. 39 (n° 8). pp. 1-5.

Chen, Daniel L., Levonyan, Vardges, Reinhart, Eric and Taksler, Glen (2019) Mandatory Disclosure: Theory and Evidence from Industry-Physician Relationships. Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 48 (n° 2). pp. 409-440.

Chen, Daniel L. (2019) Judicial analytics and the great transformation of american law. Artificial Intelligence and the Law, vol. 27. pp. 15-42.

Chen, Daniel L. (2019) Law and literature: theory and evidence on empathy and guile. Review of Law and Economics, vol. 15 (n° 1).

Chen, Daniel L. and Ash, Elliott (2019) Case Vectors: Spatial Representations of the Law Using Document Embeddings. Law as Data, vol. 11.

Chen, Daniel L., Cavaillé, Charlotte and Van Der Straeten, Karine (2019) A decision-theoretic approach to understanding survey response: likert vs. quadratic voting for attitudinal research. University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 87. pp. 22-43.

Chen, Daniel L., Dunn, Matt, Sagun, Levent and Sirin, Hale (2018) Early Predictability of Asylum Court Decisions. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on AI and the Law.

Chen, Daniel L., Phillips, Jacob and Yu, Alan (2018) Non-Segmental Conditioning of Sibilant Variation in American English. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody.

Ash, Elliott and Chen, Daniel L. (2018) What Kind of Judge is Brett Kavanaugh?: A Quantitative Analysis. Cardozo Law Review. pp. 70-100.

Badawi, Adam B. and Chen, Daniel L. (2017) The Shareholder Wealth Effects of Delaware Litigation. American Law and Economics Review, vol. 19 (n° 2). pp. 287-326.

Berdejo, Carlos and Chen, Daniel L. (2017) Electoral cycles among U.S. courts of appeals judges. Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 60 (n° 3). pp. 479-496.

Verma, Shivam, Parthasarathy, Adithya and Chen, Daniel L. (2017) The Genealogy of Ideology: Identifying Persuasive Memes and Predicting Agreement in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. ICAIL '17: Proceedings of the 16th edition of the International Conference on AI and the Law. pp. 253-256.

Chen, Daniel L. and Horton, John J. (2016) Are Online Labor Markets Spot Markets for Tasks? A Field Experiment on the Behavioral Response to Wages Cuts. Information Systems Research, 27 (2). pp. 403-423.

Chen, Daniel L., Halberstam, Yosh and Yu, Alan (2016) Perceived Masculinity Predicts U.S. Supreme Court Outcomes. Plos One, 11 (e0164324).

Chen, Daniel L., Cui, Xing, Shang, Lanyu and Zheng, Junchao (2016) What Matters: Agreement Between U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges. Journal of Machine Learning Research. (In Press)

Chen, Daniel L., Schonger, Martin and Wickens, Chris (2016) oTree - An open-source platform for laboratory, online, and field experiments. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, vol. 9 (n° 1). pp. 88-97.

Chen, Daniel L. (2015) Can Markets Stimulate Rights? On the Alienability of Legal Claims. The RAND Journal of Economics, 46 (1). pp. 23-65.

Chen, Daniel L. and Hungerman, Daniel (2014) Economics, religion, and culture: A brief introduction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 104. pp. 1-3.

Chen, Daniel L. and Yeh, Susan (2014) The Construction of Morals. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 104. pp. 84-105.

Abrams, David and Chen, Daniel L. (2013) A Market for Justice: A First Empirical Look at Third Party Litigation Funding. Journal of Business Law, 15 (4). p. 1075.

Chen, Daniel L. and Yeh, Susan (2013) Distinguishing Between Custom and Law: Empirical Examples of Endogeneity in Property and First Amendment Precedents. William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 21 (4). pp. 1081-1105.

Book Section

Chen, Daniel L., Halberstam, Yosh, Kumar, Manoj and Yu, Alan (2019) Attorney voice and the U.S. supreme court. In: Law as data: computation, text, and the future of legal analysis Livermore, Michael and Rockmore, Daniel (eds.) The Santa Fe Institute Press. Santa Fe ISBN 978-1-947864-08-5

Chen, Daniel L. (2019) Intermediated Social Preferences: Altruism in an Algorithmic Era. In: Advances in Economics of Religion Carvalho, Jean-Paul, Iyer, Sriya and Rubin, Jared (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan. Series “International Economic Association Series”, Vol. 158. pp. 119-138. ISBN 978-3-319-98848-1

Chen, Daniel L. (2019) Machine Learning and the Rule of Law. In: Law as Data : Computation, Text, and the Future of Legal Analysis Livermore, Michael A. and Rockmore, Daniel N. (eds.) Santa Fe Institute Press. ISBN 1947864084

Chen, Daniel L. (2018) Tastes for Desert and Placation: A Reference Point-Dependent Model of Social Preferences. In: Experimental Economics and Culture Emerald. Series “Research in Experimental Economics” Leeds pp. 205-226. ISBN 978-1-78743-820-0

Vunikili, Ramya, Ochani, Hitesh, Jaiswal, Divisha, Deshmukh, Richa, Chen, Daniel L. and Ash, Elliott (2018) Analysis of Vocal Implicit Bias in SCOTUS Decisions Through Predictive Modelling. In: Proceedings of Experimental Linguistics: Proceedings of 9th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 28-30 August 2018, Paris, France cs ExLing Society. Athens ISBN 9789604661985

Chen, Daniel L. (2013) Does Appellate Precedent Matter? Stock Price Responses to Appellate Court Decisions of FCC Actions. In: Empirical Legal Analysis: Assessing the Performance of Legal Institutions Fang, Ching-Fu (ed.) Routledge. Series “The Economics of Legal Relationships.” ISBN 978-0415714440

Monograph

Mehmood, Sultan, Naseer, Shaheen and Chen, Daniel L. (2024) Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-Gender Contact, and Student Achievement. TSE Working Paper

Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2023) A theory of experiments : invariance of equilibrium to the strategy method of elicitation and implications for social preferences. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-724, Toulouse

Cavaillé, Charlotte, Van Der Straeten, Karine and Chen, Daniel L. (2023) Willingness to say? Optimal survey design for prediction. TSE Working Paper, n. 23-1424, Toulouse

Chemin, Matthieu, Chen, Daniel L., Di Maro, Vincenzo, Kimalu, Paul Kieti, Mokaya, Momanyi and Ramos-Maqueda, Manuel (2022) Data Science for Justice: The Short-Term Effects of a Randomized Judicial Reform in Kenya. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1391

Chen, Daniel L. and Yeh, Susan (2022) How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the first amendment. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1396, Toulouse

Ash, Elliott, Chen, Daniel L. and Naidu, Suresh (2022) Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1392, Toulouse

Ash, Elliott, Asher, Sam, Bhowmick, Aditi, Bhupatiraju, Sandeep, Chen, Daniel L., Devi, Tatanya, Goessmann, Christoph, Novosad, Paul and Siddiqi, Bilal (2022) Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1395, Toulouse

Mehmood, Sultan, Naseer, Shaheen and Chen, Daniel L. (2022) Training Effective Altruism. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1390, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2022) Social preferences or sacred values? Theroy and evidence of deontological motivations. IAST Working Paper, n. 16-59, Toulouse

Cavaillé, Charlotte, Chen, Daniel L. and Van Der Straeten, Karine (2022) Who cares? Measuring preference intensity in a polarized environment. TSE Working Paper, n. 22-1297, Toulouse.

Chen, Daniel L., Michaeli, Moti and Spiro, Daniel (2020) Legitimizing Policy. TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1123, Toulouse

Vunikili, Ramya, Ochani, Hitesh, Jaiswal, Divisha, Deshmukh, Richa, Chen, Daniel L. and Ash, Elliott (2018) Analysis of Vocal Implicit Bias in SCOTUS Decisions Through Predictive Modelling. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-982, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. (2018) Attorney Voice and the U.S. Supreme Court. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-978, Toulouse

Ash, Elliott, Chen, Daniel L., Mainali, Nischal and Meier, Liam (2018) Automated Classification of Modes of Moral Reasoning in Judicial Decisions. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-979, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. (2018) Judicial Analytics and the Great Transformation of American Law. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-974, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. (2018) Machine learning and the rule of law. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-975, Toulouse

Cavaillé, Charlotte, Chen, Daniel L. and Van Der Straeten, Karine (2018) Towards a general theory of survey response: likert scales vs. quadratic voting for attitudinal research. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-980, Toulouse

Ash, Elliott, Chen, Daniel L., Delgado, Raul, Fierro, Eduardo and Lin, Shasha (2018) Learning Policy Levers: Toward Automated Policy Analysis Using Judicial Corpora. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-977, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Philippe, Arnaud (2018) Clash of norms: Judicial leniency on defendant birthdays. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-934, Toulouse

Ash, Elliott and Chen, Daniel L. (2018) Mapping the geometry of law using document embeddings. TSE Working Paper, n. 18-935, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Eagel, Jess (2017) Can Machine Learning Help Predict the Outcome of Asylum Adjudications? TSE Working Paper, n. 17-782, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L., Dunn, Matt, Sagun, Levent and Sirin, Hale (2017) Early Predictability of Asylum Court Decisions. TSE Working Paper, n. 17-781, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L., Cui, Xing, Shang, Lanyu and Zheng, Junchao (2016) What Matters: Agreement Between U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-747, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L., Levonyan, Vardges and Yeh, Susan (2016) Can policies affect preferences: evidence from random variation in abortion jurisprudence. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-723, Toulouse.

Chen, Daniel L. and Prescott, J.J. (2016) Implicit egoism in sentencing decisions: first letter name effects with randomly assigned defendants. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-726

Chen, Daniel L., Frankenreiter, Jens and Yeh, Susan (2016) Judicial Compliance in District Courts. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-715

Chen, Daniel L., Levonyan, Vardges, Reinhart, Eric and Taksler, Glen (2016) Mandatory disclosure: Theory and evidence from industry-physician relationships. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-716

Chen, Daniel L., Levonyan, Vardges and Yeh, Susan (2016) Policies Affect Preferences: Evidence from Random Variation in Abortion Jurisprudence. IAST working paper, n. 16-58

Chen, Daniel L. and Lind, Jo Thori (2016) The Political Economy of Beliefs: Why Fiscal and Social Conservatives/Liberals (Sometimes) Come Hand-in-Hand. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-722

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Tastes for Desert and Placation: A Reference Point-Dependent Model of Social Preferences. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-725, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Schonger, Martin (2016) Testing axiomatizations of ambiguity aversion. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-717

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-706, Toulouse

Berdejo, Carlos and Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Electoral Cycles Among U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-704, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Yeh, Susan (2016) Government Expropriation Increases Economic Growth and Racial Inequality: Evidence from Eminent Domain. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-693

Chen, Daniel L. and Yeh, Susan (2016) How Do Rights Revolutions Occur? Free Speech and the First Amendment. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-705, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L., Michaeli, Moti and Spiro, Daniel (2016) Ideological Perfectionism. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-694

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Markets, Morality, and Economic Growth: Competition Affects Utilitarian Judgment. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-692

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Mood and the Malleability of Moral Reasoning. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-707, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Sethi, Jasmin (2016) Insiders, Outsiders, and Involuntary Unemployment: Sexual Harrassment Exacerbates Gender Inequality. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-687

Chen, Daniel L. and Horton, John J. (2016) Are Online Labor Markets Spot Markets for Tasks?: A Field Experiment on the Behavioral Response to Wage Cuts. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-675, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L., Halberstam, Yosh and Yu, Alan (2016) Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of (Masculine) Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court. IAST working paper, n. 16-38, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L., Halberstam, Yosh and Yu, Alan (2016) Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-680

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Does Empathy Beget Guile? Experimental Evidence. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-684

Chen, Daniel L., Halberstam, Yosh and Yu, Alan (2016) Perceived Masculinity Predicts U.S. Supreme Court Outcomes. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-682, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) Priming Ideology: Why Presidential Elections Affect U.S. Judges. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-681

Badawi, Adam B. and Chen, Daniel L. (2016) The Shareholder Wealth Effects of Delaware Litigation. TSE Working Paper, n. 16-683

Chen, Daniel L. (2016) The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Commutations During World War I. IAST working paper, n. 16-50, Toulouse

Chen, Daniel L. and Loecher, Markus (2016) Mood and the Malleability of Moral Reasoning: The Impact of Irrelevant Factors on Judicial Decisions. IAST working paper, n. 16-49, Toulouse

Book

Zhang, Zong cang, Zhang, Xinyue, Wang, Ruofan and Chen, Daniel L., eds. (2022) Deep IV in Law. Collection « Cambridge elements. Elements in law, economics and politics ». Cambridge University Press Cambridge ISBN 9781009296403