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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 1 77 0 3 7 350
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 2 82 1 3 4 203
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 2 7 1,523 6 11 74 6,852
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 2 921 2 4 28 3,611
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 1 426 0 2 6 2,083
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 1 4 302 0 12 26 812
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 1 88 0 0 2 221
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 2 137 0 2 11 336
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 2 529 0 2 8 1,832
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 160 0 1 4 532
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 1 1 1 68 1 2 7 364
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 0 1 900
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 2 941 0 0 8 4,592
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 2 3 19 0 2 3 923
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 2 3 76 3 5 10 393
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 2 513 2 3 16 2,225
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 0 0 3 3,943
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 0 2 475
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 138 0 1 2 688
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 81
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 94
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 0 480 0 0 1 1,130
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 1 2 85 1 2 4 286
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 0 1 3 1,556
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 1 1 206 0 1 19 1,877
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 4 390 1 3 14 676
Homo economicus evolves 0 2 3 122 0 2 7 300
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 2 1,268 1 1 7 3,841
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 56 2 3 8 112
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 25 0 1 4 101
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 0 60 0 0 7 224
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 1 1,818 0 2 11 19,106
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 6 14 41 5,501
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 1 523 0 0 2 1,432
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 0 1 2 622
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 591 0 0 4 4,884
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 3 518 1 3 13 3,384
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 1 2 2 33 2 4 9 147
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 2 109 2 2 13 392
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 1 2 9 347 1 6 28 905
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 3 3 4 526 7 8 16 2,650
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 14 0 2 3 108
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 0 1 2 2,910
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 0 1 6 3,723
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 168 1 1 3 853
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 311 0 0 20 671
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 358 1 1 4 1,444
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 2 2 1,314 0 2 6 4,496
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 1 1 4 93 4 5 22 593
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 164 1 2 12 448
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 1 5 21 283
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 1 9 2,501 1 8 42 23,838
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 0 1 7 1,789
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 2 3 289 0 2 5 1,256
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 922 0 1 4 5,629
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 52 0 1 8 246
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 5 238 3 4 21 598
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 2 777 0 0 5 4,870
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 2 466 0 1 7 2,215
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 4 17 551 2 11 38 1,000
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 1 102 0 3 13 897
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 1 47 1 2 11 212
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 1 2 321 3 7 10 673
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 1 3 195 0 2 8 411
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 0 1 3 361
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 0 2 418
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 1 1 26 0 2 2 115
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 530 0 2 17 1,720
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 1 1 2 594 1 2 15 2,590
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 1 3 22 453 8 30 124 1,579
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 1 4 643 2 7 17 2,419
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 1 380 0 0 2 2,504
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 2 2 2 45 2 3 9 259
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 27 533 0 1 320 2,389
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 1 1 7 341
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 124 1 3 9 427
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 1 18 0 1 11 160
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 1 1 2 958 2 4 11 5,955
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 1,123 0 1 6 7,099
Total Working Papers 15 44 202 31,119 74 229 1,270 168,135


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 0 1 3 99
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 2 3 9 698 9 15 43 3,147
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 2 3 245 2 8 18 869
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 306
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 1 2 3 106 3 7 19 610
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 0 92 0 0 2 744
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 2 5 90 1 5 18 507
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 2 3 22 0 2 5 110
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 134
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 3 22 3 4 24 128
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 3 131 1 5 12 723
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 3 6 0 0 4 17
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 0 1 2 412
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 1 4 860 1 3 21 4,261
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 1 1 8 244
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 0 2 9 540
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 202 0 0 1 460
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 2 24 603 7 17 85 2,100
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 2 8 476
Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing 0 0 0 330 1 1 2 1,419
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 2 4 1,005
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 38 1 2 10 220
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 11 71 1 3 50 377
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 1 4 546 2 7 17 1,734
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 6 530 0 3 14 2,564
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 1 4 201 5 8 17 573
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 0 90 0 0 3 327
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 3 190 0 3 11 947
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 2 2 8 699 8 24 71 4,584
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 6 9 24 466 13 28 89 1,686
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 1 1 123 2 6 9 559
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 3 286 2 3 16 1,457
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 0 3 583
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 0 2 737
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 1 2 296 0 3 7 1,757
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 0 6 11 4,704
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 578
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 1 1 3 261 2 5 10 1,519
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 1,086
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 2 8 552 1 8 29 1,677
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 2 20 0 0 5 540
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 46 1 2 5 272
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 1 1 130 0 1 1 616
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 1 78 0 1 2 271
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 2 3 5 98 5 11 21 375
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 2 128 0 2 9 625
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 1 4 9 5,484 4 8 22 38,763
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 1 1 4 29 2 2 16 185
The Economics of Crime 2 3 6 121 2 5 16 307
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 2 4 8 730 2 10 31 4,012
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 1 212 0 2 4 642
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 623
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 2 4 115 2 6 15 946
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 1 2 12 857 4 8 64 5,014
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 293
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 1 37 0 2 6 968
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 3 45 0 0 10 368
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 58 0 0 3 193
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 1 1 3 539 1 2 13 2,825
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 4 335 1 2 12 1,109
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 2 8 274 1 5 27 1,320
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 1 2 8 1,033 6 13 39 4,126
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 1 2 4 391 6 12 34 1,832
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 2 4 14 1,703 4 16 54 5,854
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 1 2 3 164 2 5 13 570
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 0 8 698 2 4 26 2,386
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 3 6 81 2 6 19 2,356
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 1 7 522
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 34
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 5 159 1 5 26 803
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 0 3 240
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 2 4 124 1 8 25 1,726
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 0 2 3 585
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 74 1 4 5 459
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 2 20 0 0 4 68
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 5 362 0 1 9 1,254
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 1 4 18 2,005
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 1 6 22 857
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 415 3 4 16 1,640
Total Journal Articles 27 71 277 24,193 122 346 1,266 133,564


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 3 13 185 992
Total Books 0 0 0 8 3 13 185 992


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 3 6 21 937 6 12 76 3,894
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 4 293 0 2 26 1,060
Total Chapters 3 6 25 1,230 6 14 102 4,954


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