Race, Poverty, and American Tort Awards: Evidence From Three Data Sets.

Investigates the impact of the race and income of the jury pool on trial awards in the United States. Overview of poverty torts and jury awards; Mean tort awards by poverty rates; Increase in the average tort award by poverty rate; Density functions for counties with low. medium and high poverty rates; Civil juries and the politics of reform; Determinants and importance of punitive awards.