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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 83 0 1 17 223
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 79 0 4 24 377
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 1,529 17 36 162 7,029
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 0 0 41 3,654
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 0 1 16 2,100
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 1 3 305 0 2 18 832
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 0 0 15 236
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 139 0 3 18 357
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 0 530 1 1 15 1,851
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 161 0 0 34 566
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 1 70 1 1 25 390
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 0 12 914
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 1 4 61 4,653
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 0 2 10 935
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 1 1 3 80 1 6 34 438
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 1 3 518 0 7 38 2,269
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 1 23 46 3,990
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 1 18 495
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 0 21 710
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 15 0 1 7 102
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 0 13 95
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 2 483 2 10 32 1,164
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 1 5 29 317
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 0 2 28 1,584
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 1 208 4 5 101 1,985
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 1 3 394 3 10 50 730
Homo economicus evolves 0 0 5 128 0 0 8 311
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 0 1,269 3 11 51 3,894
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 0 57 2 3 15 133
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 27 0 2 20 127
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 1 1 1 62 2 4 16 243
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 0 4 78 19,185
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 3 4 55 5,566
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 4 528 5 8 49 1,487
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 1 161 0 1 16 639
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 1 3 28 4,914
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 1 520 0 3 47 3,435
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 2 2 2 36 2 43 72 223
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 0 1 23 418
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 6 355 3 4 39 950
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 0 3 6 114
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 2 529 2 5 41 2,698
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 2 3 13 2,923
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 1 580 2 6 36 3,765
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 169 1 4 31 885
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 313 0 0 16 690
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 0 0 15 1,459
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 0 1,314 0 2 79 4,577
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 2 96 0 3 32 629
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 2 4 33 320
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 165 1 5 35 490
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 2 4 2,507 4 10 67 23,911
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 449 1 2 26 1,817
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 0 3 22 1,281
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 0 4 18 267
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 0 2 16 5,646
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 3 242 3 7 68 670
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 1 1 27 4,897
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 1 2 26 2,241
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 0 4 560 1 4 36 1,048
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 1 1 1 103 2 8 34 932
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 1 2 13 226
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 0 5 45 719
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 124 0 2 17 381
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 196 0 2 22 434
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 1 15 433
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 0 27 1 2 13 131
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 1 2 534 1 8 50 1,775
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 1 1 595 1 10 40 2,633
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 0 1 16 475 12 34 212 1,838
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 2 645 1 2 26 2,450
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 0 1 22 2,529
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 3 50 0 1 22 285
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 2 535 0 2 49 2,444
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 0 1 10 356
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 1 2 43 473
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 0 2 25 191
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 959 1 2 49 6,009
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 2 2 29 7,131
Total Working Papers 6 14 102 31,266 97 375 2,781 171,219


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 0 4 20 119
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 1 3 703 3 12 71 3,240
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 0 3 38 915
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 0 0 10 318
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 1 107 3 4 29 643
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 3 95 0 0 24 768
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 1 91 0 4 33 544
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 1 1 2 24 2 6 61 182
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 0 13 149
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 26 0 3 12 149
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 0 132 1 3 16 742
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 1 5 24 41
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 3 3 15 429
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 1 2 3 863 2 60 95 4,364
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 32 1 2 24 270
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 31 573
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 203 0 2 13 477
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 2 13 622 3 22 97 2,221
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 1 19 496
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 2 13 1,434
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 0 7 1,016
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 3 41 1 1 29 256
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 5 81 5 9 56 449
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 3 549 4 6 39 1,779
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 7 537 3 4 62 2,628
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 1 8 209 0 4 47 626
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 1 92 0 0 14 342
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 2 193 0 1 17 967
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 1 3 4 704 5 9 49 4,643
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 3 24 499 8 26 145 1,873
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 124 2 8 80 641
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 1 2 288 0 2 22 1,483
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 1 12 597
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 0 16 754
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 0 298 0 1 11 1,772
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 1 2 42 4,750
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 0 0 12 590
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 1 1 2 263 1 6 41 1,564
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 156 0 1 17 1,108
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 4 557 3 8 45 1,732
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 1 21 2 2 30 574
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 0 6 20 294
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 0 131 0 2 15 632
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 1 1 79 1 3 16 287
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 1 101 1 4 23 407
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 129 0 0 20 648
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 1 3 5,488 1 18 114 38,886
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 30 1 2 26 220
The Economics of Crime 1 2 6 131 2 4 24 343
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 1 2 732 4 6 46 4,066
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 2 214 1 3 18 663
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 638
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 115 3 3 29 980
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 2 860 2 15 41 5,064
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 2 13 309
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 3 40 1 2 18 989
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 2 47 0 4 46 417
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 60 2 3 53 255
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 1 1 2 542 4 7 57 2,887
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 336 1 1 22 1,136
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 5 280 2 8 42 1,374
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 2 4 15 1,048 5 23 160 4,306
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 0 5 81 1,917
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 0 16 1,723 8 18 116 5,990
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 1 4 16 587
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 1 5 704 3 11 56 2,451
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 2 85 1 3 33 2,398
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 1 3 20 544
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 1 2 2 4 2 5 18 53
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 4 167 3 6 45 858
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 0 15 256
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 0 4 129 1 5 60 1,800
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 1 5 20 608
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 76 1 2 15 478
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 0 2 11 80
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 2 364 0 2 13 1,269
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 2,042
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 3 22 64 925
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 6 422 2 4 40 1,687
Total Journal Articles 13 30 184 24,439 115 444 2,923 136,962


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 3 4 29 1,043
Total Books 0 0 0 8 3 4 29 1,043


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 2 4 17 956 5 8 49 3,950
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 0 295 0 1 14 1,081
Total Chapters 2 4 17 1,251 5 9 63 5,031


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