Rat Race Redux: Adverse Selection in the Determination of Work Hours in Law Firms

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-348

  Landers, Renée M ^a   Rebitzer, James B ^b   Taylor, Lowell J ^c  

^a United States Department of Justice   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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