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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Center for Law and Economics

Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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Working papers

2026

  1. Johannes Wachs & Leonore Roseler & Tobias Gesche & Elliott Ash & Anik'o Hann'ak, 2026, "Good Question! The Effect of Positive Feedback on Contributions to Online Public Goods," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2604.10360, Apr.
  2. Elliott Ash & Francesco Capozza & Sergio Galletta, 2026, "Demand for Conversational AI: Purpose, Price, and the Social Cost of Wanting a Companion," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12673.
  3. Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen & Suresh Naidu, 2026, "Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05582339, Feb, DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjaf042.

2025

  1. Arold, B. W. & Ash, E. & MacLeod, W. B. & Naidu, S., 2025, "Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, number 2517, Apr.
  2. Elliott Ash & Soumitra Shukla & Jason Sockin, 2025, "Interviews," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12229.
  3. Advani, Arun & Ash, Elliott & Boltachka, Anton & Cai, David & Rasul, Imran, 2025, "Race-related Research in Economics," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 685.
  4. Advani, Arun & Ash, Elliott & Boltachka, Anton & Cai, David & Rasul, Imran, 2025, "Incentives to Produce Race-related Research," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 748.
  5. Ash, Elliott & Galletta, Sergio & Opocher, Giacomo, 2025, "BallotBot: Can AI Strengthen Democracy?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20070, Mar.

2024

  1. Tobias Schimanski & Jingwei Ni & Mathias Kraus & Elliott Ash & Markus Leippold, 2024, "Towards Faithful and Robust LLM Specialists for Evidence-Based Question-Answering," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series, Swiss Finance Institute, number 24-94, Mar.
  2. Ash, Elliott & Mikosch, Heiner & Perakis, Alexis & Sarferaz, Samad, 2024, "Seeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 18792, Jan.
  3. Ash, Elliott & Hansen, Stephen & Muvdi, Yabra, 2024, "Large Language Models in Economics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19479, Sep.
    • Elliott Ash & Stephen Hansen & Yabra Muvdi & Claudia Marangon, 2026, "Large Language Models in Economics," Springer Books, Springer, chapter 0, in: Shlomo Weber & Victor Ginsburgh, "The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88240-1_8.
  4. Elliott Ash & Claudia Marangon, 2024, "Judging disparities: Recidivism risk, image motives and in-group bias on Wisconsin criminal courts," Discussion Papers, Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP), number 2024-03.

2023

  1. Elliott Ash & Sam Asher & Aditi Bhowmick & Sandeep Bhupatiraju & Daniel Chen & Tanaya Devi & Christoph Goessmann & Paul Novosad & Bilal Siddiqi, 2023, "In-Group Bias in the Indian Judiciary: Evidence from 5 Million Criminal Cases," Working Papers, Center for Global Development, number 637, Mar.
  2. Ash, Elliott & Hansen, Stephen, 2023, "Text Algorithms in Economics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 18125, Apr.
  3. Elliott Ash & Sam Asher & Aditi Bhowmick & Sandeep Bhupatiraju & Daniel L. Chen & Tatanya Devi & Christoph Goessmann & Paul Novosad & Bilal Siddiqi, 2023, "Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary," Working Papers, HAL, number hal-03921979, Jan.
  4. Nischal Mainali & Liam Meier & Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen, 2023, "Automated Classification of Modes of Moral Reasoning in Judicial Decisions," Working Papers, HAL, number hal-04163443, Jul, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3205286.

2022

  1. Benjamin W. Arold & Ludger Woessmann & Larissa Zierow, 2022, "Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 9504.
  2. Benjamin W. Arold & Paul Hufe & Marc Stoeckli, 2022, "Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 9841.
  3. Benjamin W. Arold, 2022, "Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education," ifo Working Paper Series, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 379.
  4. Philine Widmer & Cl'ementine Abed Meraim & Sergio Galletta & Elliott Ash, 2022, "Media Slant is Contagious," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2202.07269, Feb, revised Feb 2025.
  5. Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli & Matia Vannoni, 2022, "More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States," BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers, BAFFI CAREFIN, Centre for Applied Research on International Markets Banking Finance and Regulation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, number 22178.
  6. Elliott Ash & Ruben Durante & Maria Grebenshchikova & Carlo Schwarz, 2022, "Visual Representation and Stereotypes in News Media," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 9686.
  7. Ash, Elliott & Cai, David & Draca, Mirko & Liu, Shaoyu, 2022, "Bootstrapping Science? The Impact of a Return Human Capital Programme on Chinese Research Productivity," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 628.
  8. Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen & Sergio Galletta, 2022, "Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-03597819, DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12397.

2021

  1. Benjamin W. Arold & M. Danish Shakeel, 2021, "The Unintended Effects of the Common Core State Standards on Non-Targeted Subjects," ifo Working Paper Series, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 354.
  2. Elliott Ash & Germain Gauthier & Philine Widmer, 2021, "RELATIO: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2108.01720, Aug, revised Apr 2022.
  3. Tinghua Yu & Elliott Ash, 2021, "Polarization and Political Selection," BCAM Working Papers, Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics, number 2105, Mar.
  4. Elliott Ash & Sergio Galletta & Tommaso Giommoni, 2021, "A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 9015.
  5. Elliott Ash & Sharun Mukand & Dani Rodrik, 2021, "Economic Interests, Worldviews and Identities: Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 9501.
  6. Rasul, Imran & Advani, Arun & Ash, Elliott & Cai, David, 2021, "Race-related Research in Economics and Other Social Sciences," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 16115, May.
  7. Ash, Elliott & Sgroi, Daniel & Tuckwell, Anthony & Zhuo, Shi, 2021, "Mindfulness Reduces Information Avoidance," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics, number 1372.

2020

  1. Ash, Elliott & Chen, Daniel L. & Ornaghi, Arianna, 2020, "Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary:Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 462.
  2. Yu Cao & Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen, 2020, "Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-03174376, Dec, DOI: 10.1007/s10657-020-09645-7.
  3. Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod, 2020, "Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 28025, Oct.
  4. Ash, Elliott & Galletta, Sergio & Hangartner, Dominik & Margalit, Yotam & Pinna, Matteo, 2020, "The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior During COVID-19," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number abqe5, Jun, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/abqe5.
  5. Ash, Elliott & Chen, Daniel L. & Ornaghi, Arianna, 2020, "Stereotypes in High-Stakes Decisions : Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics, number 1256.

2019

  1. Morelli, Massimo & Ash, Elliott & Vannoni, Matia, 2019, "Divided Government, Delegation, and Civil Service Reform," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 13878, Jul.
  2. Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen, 2019, "Case Vectors: Spatial Representations of the Law Using Document Embeddings," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-03161822, DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3204926.

2018

  1. Ramya Vunikili & Hitesh Ochani & Divisha Jaiswal & Richa Deshmukh & Daniel L. Chen & Elliott Ash, 2018, "Analysis of vocal implicit bias in SCOTUS decisions through predictive modelling," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-04533928, Aug.
  2. Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen, 2018, "What Kind of Judge is Brett Kavanaugh?," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-04847522.
  3. Ash, Elliott & Chen, Daniel L., 2018, "Mapping the Geometry of Law using Document Embeddings," IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), number 18-77, Jul.
  4. Ash, Elliott & Chen, Daniel L. & Lu, Wei, 2018, "Motivated Reasoning in the Field: Partisanship in Precedent, Prose, Vote, and Retirement in U.S. Circuit Courts, 1800-2013," IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), number 18-89, Jun.
  5. Ash, Elliott & Chen, Daniel L. & Delgado, Raul & Fierro, Eduardo & Lin, Shasha, 2018, "Learning Policy Levers: Toward Automated Policy Analysis Using Judicial Corpora," IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), number 18-90, Aug.

2016

  1. Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod, 2016, "Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 22071, Mar.

2015

  1. Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli & Richard Van Weelden, 2015, "Election and Divisiveness: Theory and Evidence," Working Papers, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University, number 542.

2014

  1. Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod, 2014, "Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 20664, Nov.

Journal articles

2026

  1. Arun Advani & Elliott Ash & Anton Boltachka & David Cai & Imran Rasul, 2026, "Race‐related research in economics," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, volume 93, issue 370, pages 403-438, April, DOI: 10.1111/ecca.70022.
  2. Ash, Elliott & Mikosch, Heiner & Perakis, Alexis & Sarferaz, Samad, 2026, "Seeing and hearing is believing: The role of audiovisual communication in shaping inflation expectations," European Economic Review, Elsevier, volume 184, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105253.
  3. Elliott Ash & Daniel L Chen & Suresh Naidu, 2026, "Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, volume 141, issue 1, pages 845-887.

2025

  1. Elliott Ash & Sergio Galletta & Tommaso Giommoni, 2025, "A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, volume 17, issue 2, pages 162-193, May, DOI: 10.1257/pol.20210618.
  2. Elliott Ash & Massimo Morelli & Matia Vannoni, 2025, "More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from US States," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, volume 133, issue 7, pages 2139-2179, DOI: 10.1086/734874.

2024

  1. Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen & Arianna Ornaghi, 2024, "Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from US Circuit Courts," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, volume 16, issue 1, pages 314-350, January, DOI: 10.1257/app.20210435.
  2. Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod, 2024, "Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, volume 16, issue 1, pages 518-548, February, DOI: 10.1257/pol.20210667.
  3. Ash, Elliott & Gauthier, Germain & Widmer, Philine, 2024, "Relatio: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, volume 32, issue 1, pages 115-132, January.
  4. Ash, Elliott & Galletta, Sergio & Hangartner, Dominik & Margalit, Yotam & Pinna, Matteo, 2024, "The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior during COVID-19," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, volume 32, issue 2, pages 275-284, April.
  5. Ash, Elliott & Galletta, Sergio & Pinna, Matteo & Warshaw, Christopher S., 2024, "From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, volume 240, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105256.
  6. Elliott Ash & Michael Poyker, 2024, "Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to the Fox News Channel," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, volume 134, issue 660, pages 1331-1355.

2023

  1. Benjamin W. Arold, 2023, "Do School Curricula Matter to Students in the Long Run? The Case of Teaching the Theory of Evolution or Creationism in the United States," EconPol Forum, CESifo, volume 24, issue 01, pages 35-37, January.
  2. Elliott Ash & Sergio Galletta, 2023, "How Cable News Reshaped Local Government," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, volume 15, issue 4, pages 292-320, October, DOI: 10.1257/app.20210501.
  3. Elliott Ash & Stephen Hansen, 2023, "Text Algorithms in Economics," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, volume 15, issue 1, pages 659-688, September, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-082222-07.
  4. Osnabrügge, Moritz & Ash, Elliott & Morelli, Massimo, 2023, "Cross-Domain Topic Classification for Political Texts," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, volume 31, issue 1, pages 59-80, January.
  5. Ash, Elliott & Sgroi, Daniel & Tuckwell, Anthony & Zhuo, Shi, 2023, "Mindfulness reduces information avoidance," Economics Letters, Elsevier, volume 224, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110997.
  6. Tinghua Yu & Elliott Ash, 2023, "Political Polarization and Judicial Selection," Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, now publishers, volume 4, issue 1, pages 1-1–27, February, DOI: 10.1561/113.00000070.

2022

  1. Benjamin W. Arold & Ludger Woessmann & Larissa Zierow, 2022, "Religious Education in School Affects Students’ Lives in the Long Run," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, volume 23, issue 03, pages 40-43, May.
  2. Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen & Sergio Galletta, 2022, "Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to US Circuit Courts," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, volume 89, issue 354, pages 362-376, April, DOI: 10.1111/ecca.12397.
  3. Ash, Elliott & Morelli, Massimo & Vannoni, Matia, 2022, "Divided government, delegation, and civil service reform," Political Science Research and Methods, Cambridge University Press, volume 10, issue 1, pages 82-96, January.
  4. Gloria Gennaro & Elliott Ash, 2022, "Emotion and Reason in Political Language," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, volume 132, issue 643, pages 1037-1059.
  5. Matteo Pinna, 2022, "Binned scatterplots with marginal histograms: binscatterhist," Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC, volume 22, issue 2, pages 430-445, June, DOI: 10.1177/1536867X221106418.

2021

  1. Benjamin Arold & Vera Freundl & Katia Werkmeister & Larissa Zierow, 2021, "Wie geht es einkommensschwächeren Familien in der Coronakrise?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, volume 74, issue 06, pages 46-49, June.
  2. Vannoni, Matia & Ash, Elliott & Morelli, Massimo, 2021, "Measuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts: Methods and Application to US States," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, volume 29, issue 1, pages 43-57, January.
  3. Ash, Elliott & MacLeod, W. Bentley, 2021, "Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, volume 201, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104478.

2020

  1. Hausladen, Carina I. & Schubert, Marcel H. & Ash, Elliott, 2020, "Text classification of ideological direction in judicial opinions," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, volume 62, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2020.105903.
  2. Yu Cao & Elliott Ash & Daniel L. Chen, 2020, "Automated fact-value distinction in court opinions," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, volume 50, issue 3, pages 451-467, December, DOI: 10.1007/s10657-020-09645-7.
  3. Elliott Ash & Miguel Urquiola, 2020, "A research-based ranking of public policy schools," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, volume 125, issue 1, pages 499-531, October, DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03625-z.

2018

  1. Van Parys, Jessica & Ash, Elliott, 2018, "Sequential decision-making with group identity," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, volume 69, issue C, pages 1-18, DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2018.09.004.
  2. Elliott Ash, 2018, "Emerging Tools for a "Driverless" Legal System," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, volume 174, issue 1, pages 206-213, March, DOI: 10.1628/093245618X15135819919262.

2015

  1. Elliott Ash & W. Bentley MacLeod, 2015, "Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, volume 58, issue 4, DOI: 10.1086/684293.

2012

  1. van Winden Frans A.A.M. & Ash Elliott, 2012, "On the Behavioral Economics of Crime," Review of Law & Economics, De Gruyter, volume 8, issue 1, pages 181-213, June, DOI: 10.1515/1555-5879.1591.

Books

2022

  1. Benjamin W. Arold, 2022, "School Curricula, Educational Trajectories, and Labor Market Outcomes," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 99, April.

Chapters

2026

  1. Elliott Ash & Stephen Hansen & Yabra Muvdi & Claudia Marangon, 2026, "Large Language Models in Economics," Springer Books, Springer, chapter 0, in: Shlomo Weber & Victor Ginsburgh, "The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language", DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88240-1_8.

Software components

2021

  1. Matteo Pinna, 2021, "INLIST2: Stata module to create an inlist() dummy, without the inlist() limitations," Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics, number S458920, revised 24 Nov 2022.
  2. Matteo Pinna, 2021, "MULTICOEFPLOT: Stata module to produce advanced repeated cross-section graphical analysis," Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics, number S458942, revised 24 Jun 2021.
  3. Matteo Pinna, 2021, "EVENTCOEFPLOT: Stata module to produce advanced event-study graphical analysis," Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics, number S458943, revised 24 Jun 2021.

2020

  1. Matteo Pinna, 2020, "BINSCATTERHIST: Stata module to produce binned scatterplot with marginal histograms," Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics, number S458855, revised 04 May 2023.

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