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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 1 1 3 82 1 1 4 201
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 1 1 1 77 3 5 8 350
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 1 7 1,522 4 5 71 6,845
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 3 921 1 4 32 3,608
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 1 426 2 3 10 2,083
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 4 301 10 12 26 810
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 2 88 0 0 3 221
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 136 1 2 12 335
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 2 529 0 0 8 1,830
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 160 1 1 4 532
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 0 67 0 0 7 362
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 0 1 900
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 1 2 941 0 3 10 4,592
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 1 17 0 0 2 921
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 2 513 0 3 13 2,222
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 2 2 4 76 2 5 10 390
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 0 1 3 3,943
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 1 94 0 0 3 475
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 1 138 1 2 3 688
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 94
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 17 0 0 1 80
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 2 480 0 0 5 1,130
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 2 84 1 1 6 285
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 1 1 3 1,556
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 1 1 3 206 1 4 26 1,877
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 2 5 390 1 5 17 674
Homo economicus evolves 2 2 5 122 2 2 11 300
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 4 1,268 0 1 8 3,840
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 2 56 0 1 7 109
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 25 0 1 7 100
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 60 0 2 8 224
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 2 1,818 0 0 15 19,104
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 5 20 32 5,492
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 1 3 523 0 1 5 1,432
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 1 1 2 622
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 591 0 1 5 4,884
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 1 6 518 1 6 19 3,382
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 31 1 2 8 144
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 2 109 0 2 17 390
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 1 3 11 346 2 7 32 901
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 3 523 0 3 18 2,642
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 14 0 0 2 106
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 1 2 2 2,910
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 1 2 10 3,723
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 168 0 0 3 852
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 311 0 5 30 671
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 358 0 0 3 1,443
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 1 1 1 1,313 1 1 8 4,495
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 4 92 1 3 23 589
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 164 0 4 11 446
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 1 3 20 279
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 2 9 2,500 4 8 43 23,834
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 1 448 0 2 7 1,788
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 3 287 0 1 5 1,254
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 2 52 1 3 11 246
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 2 922 1 1 6 5,629
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 5 237 0 1 28 594
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 2 777 0 0 8 4,870
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 1 2 466 1 3 7 2,215
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 2 5 17 549 5 10 41 994
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 1 102 3 3 15 897
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 1 47 1 3 12 211
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 320 2 2 6 668
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 2 2 123 1 3 4 361
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 1 1 3 195 1 1 7 410
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 0 3 418
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 0 25 0 0 1 113
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 530 1 6 18 1,719
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 2 593 1 5 20 2,589
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 1 5 25 451 10 24 139 1,559
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 4 642 2 5 14 2,414
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 1 380 0 0 3 2,504
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 43 0 1 7 256
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 95 533 1 3 1,010 2,389
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 1 1 77 0 2 6 340
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 1 3 124 1 2 9 425
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 2 18 0 1 13 159
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 1 957 1 1 9 5,952
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 1,123 1 2 7 7,099
Total Working Papers 14 37 290 31,089 85 221 2,054 167,991


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 1 1 3 99
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 1 8 696 3 8 36 3,135
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 1 1 2 244 2 4 16 863
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 1 101 0 0 1 306
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 1 1 2 105 3 9 18 606
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 1 2 4 89 2 3 17 504
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 1 1 2 21 1 1 4 109
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 0 1 22 124
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 3 131 1 2 13 719
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 2 4 6 0 2 5 17
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 1 1 3 412
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 1 3 859 1 7 20 4,259
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 31 0 0 8 243
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 7 538
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 3 30 601 5 16 106 2,088
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 2 9 475
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 0 0 2 1,418
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 1 1 5 1,004
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 38 1 1 10 219
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 14 71 1 7 67 375
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 5 545 3 4 18 1,730
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 1 9 530 2 3 17 2,563
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 0 4 200 1 4 14 566
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 2 4 14 946
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 6 697 11 19 67 4,571
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 3 6 21 460 8 20 79 1,666
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 1 1 1 123 4 4 7 557
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 4 286 0 0 15 1,454
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 1 2 737
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 1 2 295 1 2 6 1,755
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 5 5 11 4,703
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 0 2 3 260 2 4 8 1,516
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 1 3 7 551 4 10 32 1,673
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 2 20 0 0 7 540
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 46 0 0 4 270
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 0 129 0 0 0 615
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 1 78 0 0 1 270
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 1 1 5 96 4 7 17 368
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 2 128 0 2 8 623
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 2 3 7 5,482 3 6 19 38,758
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 3 28 0 4 20 183
The Economics of Crime 1 1 8 119 2 4 20 304
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 2 2 7 728 8 15 32 4,010
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 0 211 1 2 4 641
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 623
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 1 1 4 114 3 4 20 943
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 12 855 3 13 73 5,009
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 1 2 10 967
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 1 3 45 0 2 11 368
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 3 58 0 0 5 193
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 1 2 538 1 5 14 2,824
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 1 4 335 1 4 12 1,108
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 1 2 9 273 3 7 30 1,318
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 0 3 6 1,031 3 12 32 4,116
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 1 2 7 390 3 11 37 1,823
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 1 1 14 1,700 7 17 57 5,845
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 1 162 2 4 11 567
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 0 11 698 1 4 31 2,383
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 3 3 8 81 3 4 19 2,353
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 33
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 5 6 521
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 8 159 4 9 36 802
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 0 3 122 2 10 25 1,720
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 1 2 179 1 2 4 584
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 74 2 2 3 457
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 1 2 20 0 1 4 68
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 5 362 1 1 10 1,254
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 3 7 20 2,004
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 2 7 23 853
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 415 0 1 17 1,636
Total Journal Articles 23 50 286 24,145 131 322 1,322 133,349


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 7 23 210 986
Total Books 0 0 0 8 7 23 210 986


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 2 5 22 933 5 27 84 3,887
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 2 5 293 0 8 29 1,058
Total Chapters 2 7 27 1,226 5 35 113 4,945


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