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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 82 1 5 11 211
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 78 2 4 12 357
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 1,525 8 10 36 6,876
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 2 5 12 3,616
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 0 0 4 2,084
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 1 302 3 3 19 817
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 2 4 4 225
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 2 138 3 5 10 343
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 0 2 7 1,837
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 0 160 1 2 3 534
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 2 69 1 1 4 366
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 1 1 3 903
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 1 941 3 5 8 4,597
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 2 19 0 2 4 925
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 2 2 5 79 4 7 26 411
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 2 2 515 3 8 17 2,236
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 4 7 8 3,950
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 3 4 479
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 138 1 3 5 691
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 0 2 82
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 1 2 3 97
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 1 2 482 3 5 7 1,137
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 1 85 2 4 8 292
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 0 0 1 1,556
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 207 5 8 19 1,892
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 3 391 3 5 16 685
Homo economicus evolves 0 4 7 127 0 5 9 307
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 7 8 12 3,851
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 0 1 10 118
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 1 2 2 27 3 7 13 112
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 2 2 7 229
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 1 2 5 19,109
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 2 8 45 5,517
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 2 524 3 5 11 1,442
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 2 5 7 628
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 4 4 7 4,890
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 1 2 519 0 4 14 3,390
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 1 4 11 399
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 3 34 1 5 14 156
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 6 349 2 6 21 915
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 0 0 2 108
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 1 1 5 528 6 9 27 2,666
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 0 1 3 2,911
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 2 5 13 3,734
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 3 4 6 858
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 0 311 0 1 9 675
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 1 1 2 1,445
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 2 1,314 3 4 7 4,501
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 3 95 3 7 17 603
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 1 7 17 459
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 2 6 16 292
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 5 2,503 6 9 26 23,852
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 0 2 7 1,793
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 2 289 3 3 9 1,262
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 922 0 3 4 5,632
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 0 0 6 249
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 2 239 4 5 14 607
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 5 6 6 4,876
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 466 3 3 6 2,218
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 4 16 560 6 13 40 1,024
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 3 4 8 902
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 1 2 7 215
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 1 1 2 322 3 4 12 678
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 195 1 2 5 414
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 0 3 8 366
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 1 1 1 419
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 2 27 1 3 8 121
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 532 7 8 20 1,733
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 594 1 4 12 2,596
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 1 4 16 462 16 39 122 1,657
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 1 1 2 644 5 7 22 2,431
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 0 3 5 2,509
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 1 5 48 2 5 13 268
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 2 534 0 3 11 2,397
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 0 2 8 346
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 1 3 4 127 4 14 19 442
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 2 7 12 170
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 2 959 3 8 16 5,967
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 2 3 8 7,105
Total Working Papers 8 29 136 31,188 181 378 993 168,763


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 0 3 4 102
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 5 700 10 18 54 3,181
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 245 5 11 26 885
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 2 4 5 311
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 2 106 1 4 19 616
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 0 92 1 2 2 746
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 3 90 1 4 14 515
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 2 22 5 6 19 127
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 1 3 137
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 3 25 1 2 15 138
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 1 1 132 1 4 10 727
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 2 6 2 4 6 21
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 2 4 6 417
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 2 860 0 5 20 4,272
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 2 4 6 249
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 1 4 9 545
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 1 1 203 2 4 7 467
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 2 4 14 612 8 23 71 2,143
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 3 4 8 481
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 1 4 1,422
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 1 7 1,010
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 2 2 2 40 4 9 17 235
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 2 7 78 4 11 36 404
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 1 2 547 3 5 18 1,744
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 2 3 532 3 11 16 2,576
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 1 2 3 203 3 11 27 589
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 1 2 92 1 4 5 332
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 1 191 3 4 11 953
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 1 3 700 3 10 50 4,602
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 5 7 26 480 11 36 106 1,752
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 0 2 10 563
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 286 2 4 11 1,465
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 2 4 587
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 1 3 739
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 4 298 0 1 9 1,762
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 3 5 15 4,713
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 578
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 3 261 5 10 19 1,531
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 2 156 1 2 7 1,093
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 2 3 8 556 4 13 36 1,699
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 0 20 2 3 7 547
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 0 2 5 275
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 2 131 0 2 4 619
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 2 2 3 273
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 1 5 100 1 3 24 385
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 1 1 129 0 4 9 630
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 2 8 5,487 6 13 31 38,783
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 2 30 6 11 25 204
The Economics of Crime 0 3 8 126 0 4 20 320
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 4 730 4 7 32 4,027
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 212 2 3 8 647
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 624
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 2 115 6 10 22 961
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 3 858 3 4 31 5,027
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 1 3 296
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 1 1 38 0 2 8 973
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 1 45 4 5 9 375
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 0 58 4 11 16 209
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 1 4 541 6 8 18 2,837
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 1 2 336 0 2 12 1,116
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 4 275 2 8 27 1,338
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 1 3 8 1,036 6 42 82 4,186
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 3 391 6 26 50 1,862
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 5 8 15 1,714 25 37 78 5,906
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 1 3 10 573
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 1 1 2 700 4 9 21 2,400
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 5 83 3 9 22 2,371
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 36
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 1 3 11 527
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 4 5 164 4 16 31 824
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 2 2 3 243
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 1 4 126 4 17 43 1,753
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 2 4 8 590
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 2 76 1 2 9 464
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 1 20 0 1 3 70
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 0 362 0 1 4 1,257
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 2 8 20 2,017
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 8 13 27 873
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 6 7 422 2 21 29 1,664
Total Journal Articles 19 62 207 24,302 217 575 1,484 134,511


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 2 11 54 1,017
Total Books 0 0 0 8 2 11 54 1,017


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 1 11 939 1 4 43 3,903
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 1 4 295 2 9 23 1,073
Total Chapters 0 2 15 1,234 3 13 66 4,976


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