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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 79 3 7 25 380
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 83 2 3 15 225
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 1,529 57 86 218 7,086
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 1 1 41 3,655
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 2 3 18 2,102
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 1 3 305 2 3 20 834
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 3 3 3 91 38 38 51 274
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 139 1 2 18 358
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 0 530 2 3 16 1,853
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 161 5 5 38 571
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 1 70 1 2 26 391
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 3 3 15 917
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 1 1 1 942 10 13 69 4,663
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 1 2 11 936
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 1 3 80 0 6 31 438
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 1 3 518 2 8 38 2,271
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 21 44 65 4,011
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 0 16 495
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 138 2 2 22 712
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 15 0 1 6 102
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 1 1 2 484 2 11 32 1,166
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 3 8 30 320
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 3 4 31 1,587
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 1 208 8 13 106 1,993
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 2 2 5 396 9 17 57 739
Homo economicus evolves 1 1 2 129 1 1 5 312
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 0 1,269 19 26 69 3,913
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 0 57 4 7 19 137
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 27 0 2 18 127
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 1 1 62 0 4 16 243
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 5 8 82 19,190
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 8 12 59 5,574
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 4 528 3 10 51 1,490
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 1 161 0 0 13 639
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 5 8 33 4,919
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 1 520 13 15 58 3,448
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 2 2 36 4 47 72 227
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 3 4 23 421
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 6 355 5 8 42 955
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 1 4 7 115
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 2 529 4 8 42 2,702
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 2 5 14 2,925
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 1 580 7 12 40 3,772
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 169 9 12 39 894
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 1 1 3 314 10 10 25 700
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 4 4 19 1,463
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 0 1,314 27 28 106 4,604
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 96 2 5 31 631
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 4 8 34 324
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 1 1 2 166 2 6 34 492
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 2 4 2,507 7 15 72 23,918
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 449 0 2 24 1,817
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 18 20 40 1,299
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 6 9 24 273
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 5 6 19 5,651
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 3 242 8 13 75 678
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 2 3 28 4,899
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 1 2 27 2,242
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 1 1 1 561 1 4 31 1,049
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 1 1 1 48 6 8 18 232
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 1 1 103 12 19 45 944
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 6 11 50 725
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 196 9 11 30 443
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 124 4 6 19 385
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 2 3 17 435
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 0 27 2 4 13 133
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 534 2 4 51 1,777
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 1 2 2 596 14 18 52 2,647
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 2 3 16 477 18 41 215 1,856
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 2 645 9 11 33 2,459
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 4 5 24 2,533
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 2 50 4 5 23 289
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 1 535 6 8 53 2,450
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 1 2 11 357
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 1 127 1 3 36 474
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 0 1 23 191
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 959 5 7 50 6,014
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 2 4 30 7,133
Total Working Papers 15 26 101 31,281 475 784 3,112 171,694


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 4 6 21 123
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 1 3 703 46 54 115 3,286
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 1 3 36 916
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 1 1 10 319
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 1 107 2 6 30 645
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 3 95 4 4 27 772
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 1 91 7 11 37 551
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 1 2 24 5 8 65 187
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 3 3 15 152
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 26 4 5 16 153
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 0 132 4 6 20 746
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 4 7 26 45
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 2 5 16 431
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 2 3 863 3 58 95 4,367
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 32 0 2 23 270
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 29 573
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 203 2 3 14 479
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 1 13 623 6 23 92 2,227
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 2 3 20 498
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 12 1,434
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 0 6 1,016
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 1 1 4 42 10 11 35 266
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 3 3 6 84 21 30 70 470
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 2 549 6 12 44 1,785
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 5 537 8 11 63 2,636
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 0 7 209 0 1 40 626
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 0 92 0 0 11 342
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 2 193 0 0 17 967
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 1 2 5 705 4 10 48 4,647
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 2 24 499 11 30 143 1,884
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 124 2 5 80 643
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 288 5 6 25 1,488
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 2 2 12 599
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 4 4 19 758
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 0 298 2 3 12 1,774
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 12 14 52 4,762
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 2 2 14 592
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 2 263 3 6 41 1,567
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 156 2 2 18 1,110
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 1 1 4 558 12 18 49 1,744
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 1 21 3 5 32 577
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 7 12 26 301
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 0 131 3 4 16 635
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 1 2 2 80 6 9 22 293
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 1 101 4 7 27 411
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 129 2 2 20 650
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 1 5,488 60 71 169 38,946
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 0 30 0 2 22 220
The Economics of Crime 0 1 5 131 1 3 24 344
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 1 2 732 11 17 54 4,077
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 2 3 4 216 7 10 25 670
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 1 1 15 639
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 1 1 1 116 7 10 32 987
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 2 860 21 32 61 5,085
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 3 4 16 312
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 2 40 1 3 17 990
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 2 47 21 21 67 438
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 60 8 10 58 263
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 1 1 542 10 17 66 2,897
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 336 2 3 22 1,138
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 5 280 4 8 42 1,378
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 1 5 14 1,049 53 70 179 4,359
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 4 7 65 1,921
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 0 14 1,723 19 34 128 6,009
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 3 5 18 590
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 1 1 6 705 21 27 76 2,472
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 2 85 3 4 33 2,401
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 1 2 3 5 2 4 20 55
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 1 4 19 545
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 3 167 11 16 49 869
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 2 2 17 258
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 0 3 129 5 9 56 1,805
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 1 2 21 609
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 76 3 4 18 481
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 1 3 11 81
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 2 364 4 5 16 1,273
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 1 2 28 2,043
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 1 1 1 220 28 44 88 953
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 422 3 7 28 1,690
Total Journal Articles 15 33 171 24,454 553 878 3,221 137,515


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 3 7 31 1,046
Total Books 0 0 0 8 3 7 31 1,046


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 2 17 956 6 11 54 3,956
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 0 295 3 4 13 1,084
Total Chapters 0 2 17 1,251 9 15 67 5,040


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