The Valuation of Legal Rights
提出一种方法，利用公投数据和不投票行为来推导法律和宪法权利的需求、价值及其对收入和教育的敏感性，帮助理解人们如何评估言论自由或投票权等权利。
Such issues as the freedom of speech or the right to vote are usually discussed as matters of principle or public policy, without concern for the preferences of the potential users of these rights. Yet it is interesting to see how strongly valued they are. This paper develops a method to derive the demand for legal and constitutional rights and rules, the values attached to them, and their sensitivity to income and education. The model is based on referendum data and on the interpretation of nonvoting behavior.