Weekly Top 5 Papers – May 1st 2017

1. ‘Rape-Adjacent’: Imagining Legal Responses to Nonconsensual Condom Removal by Alexandra Brodsky (Yale Law School)

2. A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University – Department of Economics)

3. The Impact of State Taxes on Pass-Through Businesses: Evidence from the 2012 Kansas Income Tax Reform by Jason DeBacker (University of South Carolina – Darla Moore School of Business) and Bradley Heim (Indiana University Bloomington – School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA)) and Shanthi Ramnath (U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis (OTA)) and Justin Ross (Indiana University – School of Public & Environmental Affairs)

4. Why Prison?: An Economic Critique by Peter Salib (United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)

5. The Decline of Violent Conflicts: What Do the Data Really Say?The Decline of Violent Conflicts: What Do the Data Really Say? by Pasquale Cirillo (Delft University of Technology) and Nassim Taleb (NYU-Tandon School of Engineering)