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An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 4 23 73 1,280 44 154 548 5,009
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 8 28 120 399 25 86 305 994
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 6 21 330 15 46 128 1,528
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 1 3 17 430 8 33 109 1,379
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 1 2 5 90 6 12 34 737
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 1 5 35 676 11 39 168 2,959
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 2 8 50 174 289
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 5 8 17 342 15 52 159 3,544
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 1 1 14 49 5 20 82 235
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 3 4 22 73 10 19 76 284
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 5 28 220 220 14 69 269 269
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 2 6 19 281 7 39 123 1,130
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 2 12 45 103 28 93 383 693
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 2 8 43 1,084 13 39 148 3,004
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 9 29 114 1,386 66 269 1,050 15,462
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 11 736 18 104 337 2,999
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 8 31 413 6 32 114 973
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 3 5 16 82 7 19 70 281
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 2 8 36 461 22 80 278 3,981
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 6 27 77 282 40 143 496 1,992
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 4 21 80 3 16 66 297
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 11 18 63 337 80 120 345 1,449
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 2 9 24 250 20 60 202 2,444
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 2 12 466 13 47 185 2,649
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 2 7 27 95 7 28 134 442
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 1 16 55 247 8 48 265 931
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 5 34 88 959 28 106 297 3,271
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 10 58 199 1,586 57 317 1,187 16,345
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 7 12 49 336 14 46 199 1,140
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 2 11 30 150 6 27 92 892
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 6 23 237 3 16 68 670
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 1 4 41 784 11 37 184 4,840
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 9 13 45 575 23 61 253 3,646
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 2 4 31 380 13 41 174 1,709
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 4 7 35 35 7 35 143 143
Understanding Crime in Colombia and What Can Be Done About It 7 23 77 127 13 54 238 390
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 2 12 45 446 7 28 164 1,820
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 6 19 76 334 21 56 203 1,399
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 3 8 24 297 18 56 169 1,968
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 118 136 136 136 83 88 88 88
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 4 18 51 670 25 79 258 3,690
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 2 12 41 738 18 117 413 4,425
Total Working Papers 255 644 2,129 17,984 846 2,881 10,378 102,390


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An Economic Analysis Of A Drug-Selling Gang'S Finances 1 3 26 441 4 23 118 1,594
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 3 56 1 1 18 161
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 3 7 38 0 8 30 138
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 1 9 38 3 8 47 202
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 1 1 5 26 2 2 14 88
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 3 6 27 652 22 59 225 3,086
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 2 4 28 32 8 15 98 120
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 11 36 86 86 12 48 136 136
Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing 1 7 25 262 13 60 162 993
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 1 3 9 222 2 5 24 743
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 4 14 405 5 18 65 1,132
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 2 4 27 268 10 24 210 1,370
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 3 8 49 2 8 34 187
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 7 15 122 0 9 32 675
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 2 13 36 442 4 30 187 2,978
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 5 9 29 29 10 28 113 113
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 2 4 18 37 4 14 85 168
Measuring Positive Externalities From Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis Of Lojack 0 3 18 168 8 23 94 852
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 1 3 7 79 2 7 22 411
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 5 45 140 0 7 143 617
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 18 127 504 3,660
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 0 0 5 36 430
Rotten Apples: An Investigation Of The Prevalence And Predictors Of Teacher Cheating 0 4 14 120 7 21 114 644
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 1 3 8 117 3 11 44 830
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 2 6 19 272 3 18 66 562
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 0 0 4 11 84 124
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 8 86 1 4 58 399
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 1 2 21 39 6 15 87 185
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 26 106 420 3,746 150 520 2,550 25,962
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 2 12 57 446 9 46 197 2,792
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 4 10 33 102 8 23 83 240
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 1 4 15 503
The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime 1 6 28 563 2 12 98 2,980
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 0 1 7 32 361
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 0 1 4 10 75 560
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 3 30 340 7 40 230 1,746
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 1 28 182 3 13 81 479
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors That Explain the Decline and Six That Do Not 5 12 58 677 15 52 212 1,819
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 5 36 235 3 15 88 861
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 4 13 55 668 8 24 121 2,990
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 1 7 45 2 5 19 155
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 1 8 32 263 2 17 91 795
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 2 10 42 244 1,281
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 5 12 32 58 6 19 59 138
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 0 0 0 11 49 271 394
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 4 8 25 25 6 18 77 199
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 5 17 54 57 10 32 156 383
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 8 33 162 1,220
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 1 7 137 3 4 36 466
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 1 6 23 222 3 14 85 820
Total Journal Articles 94 355 1,437 11,999 426 1,608 7,832 69,742


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 7 35 91 91 24 101 332 332
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 2 3 3 3 4 8 8 8
Total Chapters 9 38 94 94 28 109 340 340


Statistics updated 2009-07-03