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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 82 1 2 7 206
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 2 78 2 3 10 353
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 2 7 1,525 3 11 37 6,866
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 1 921 0 0 18 3,611
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 0 1 5 2,084
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 3 302 0 2 22 814
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 1 88 0 0 2 221
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 2 138 0 2 7 338
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 1 1 530 2 3 8 1,835
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 0 160 0 0 3 532
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 1 2 69 0 1 5 365
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 2 2 902
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 1 941 0 0 4 4,592
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 2 19 0 0 2 923
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 1 3 77 1 10 19 404
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 1 513 1 2 16 2,228
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 0 0 1 3,943
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 1 1 3 476
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 2 688
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 1 1 2 82
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 1 1 95
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 1 1 1 481 2 2 3 1,132
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 2 85 0 2 6 288
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 0 0 2 1,556
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 1 1 2 207 1 2 20 1,884
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 4 391 1 1 13 680
Homo economicus evolves 0 1 3 123 1 2 4 302
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 1 1 1 1,269 1 1 6 3,843
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 1 1 2 57 2 5 10 117
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 25 1 4 7 105
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 1 1 61 1 2 7 227
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 1 1 8 19,107
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 2 4 48 5,509
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 1 1 2 524 2 4 6 1,437
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 1 1 2 623
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 591 1 1 5 4,886
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 1 518 1 1 12 3,386
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 1 3 34 1 4 10 151
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 1 109 0 2 10 395
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 1 1 7 349 1 2 21 909
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 14 0 0 3 108
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 5 527 5 6 21 2,657
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 0 0 2 2,910
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 3 5 11 3,729
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 1 1 1 169 1 1 4 854
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 1 311 0 3 16 674
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 358 0 0 3 1,444
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 2 1,314 0 1 4 4,497
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 3 94 0 2 15 596
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 1 3 11 452
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 1 2 16 286
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 2 7 2,503 2 5 34 23,843
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 1 2 6 1,791
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 3 289 1 3 7 1,259
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 922 0 0 4 5,629
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 2 3 7 249
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 4 239 1 2 17 602
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 0 0 2 4,870
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 2 466 0 0 5 2,215
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 2 19 556 1 5 39 1,011
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 1 9 213
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 0 1 6 898
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 1 321 1 1 8 674
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 1 1 5 363
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 195 0 1 3 412
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 0 1 418
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 1 2 27 0 3 5 118
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 1 3 532 3 4 18 1,725
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 594 0 0 12 2,592
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 3 4 20 458 13 27 129 1,618
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 1 643 1 5 16 2,424
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 2 2 2 2,506
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 4 47 1 2 11 263
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 3 533 1 3 13 2,394
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 1 3 8 344
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 124 0 1 9 428
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 1 18 0 1 9 163
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 3 959 2 3 12 5,959
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 1,123 1 2 7 7,102
Total Working Papers 10 29 159 31,159 78 187 886 168,385


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 0 0 2 99
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 1 9 700 3 13 47 3,163
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 245 0 5 18 874
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 0 1 1 307
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 3 106 0 1 17 612
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 0 92 0 0 1 744
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 4 90 1 3 16 511
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 2 22 7 10 14 121
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 2 2 136
Catching Cheating Students 2 2 5 24 3 7 23 136
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 131 0 0 7 723
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 2 413
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 4 860 2 4 26 4,267
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 0 1 5 245
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 0 9 541
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 202 0 3 4 463
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 3 5 19 608 4 16 78 2,120
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 1 6 477
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 3 1,421
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 3 7 1,009
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 1 38 0 5 13 226
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 1 3 11 76 4 11 45 393
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 2 546 0 3 17 1,739
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 3 530 0 1 9 2,565
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 0 2 201 2 4 17 578
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 1 1 1 91 1 1 3 328
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 1 3 191 0 2 10 949
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 4 699 2 6 60 4,592
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 3 22 473 8 22 86 1,716
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 0 2 9 561
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 286 2 4 14 1,461
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 1 2 4 585
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 1 3 738
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 2 2 4 298 2 4 10 1,761
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 0 3 14 4,708
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 1 2 11 1,521
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 1 2 156 2 4 5 1,091
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 1 8 553 3 8 31 1,686
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 0 20 0 2 4 544
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 1 1 3 273
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 1 1 2 131 1 1 2 617
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 1 78 0 0 2 271
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 1 4 99 1 6 25 382
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 128 1 1 9 626
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 1 7 5,485 2 5 21 38,770
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 4 29 2 7 21 193
The Economics of Crime 1 2 6 123 3 7 18 316
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 6 730 0 6 34 4,020
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 212 1 2 6 644
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 623
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 3 115 3 4 15 951
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 8 858 0 6 48 5,023
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 1 2 295
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 1 37 1 2 8 971
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 2 45 1 1 7 370
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 0 58 3 4 5 198
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 1 1 3 540 1 3 12 2,829
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 2 335 0 5 13 1,114
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 7 275 0 7 26 1,330
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 0 0 8 1,033 3 15 51 4,144
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 3 391 2 3 29 1,836
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 1 1 9 1,706 3 4 53 5,869
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 0 0 8 570
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 0 6 699 0 2 25 2,391
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 1 2 8 83 2 5 22 2,362
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 35
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 1 2 8 524
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 2 160 2 5 20 808
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 1 1 241
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 1 4 125 0 9 30 1,736
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 0 0 4 586
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 2 2 2 76 2 2 8 462
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 1 20 1 1 2 69
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 3 362 1 2 6 1,256
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 1 3 18 2,009
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 2 3 18 860
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 2 416 0 2 17 1,643
Total Journal Articles 17 34 230 24,240 92 289 1,256 133,936


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 5 11 129 1,006
Total Books 0 0 0 8 5 11 129 1,006


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 0 12 938 3 4 49 3,899
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 5 294 1 3 21 1,064
Total Chapters 0 0 17 1,232 4 7 70 4,963


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