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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 1 1 2 78 1 1 8 351
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 82 1 2 6 205
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 2 9 1,525 5 11 83 6,863
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 2 921 0 0 23 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 1 2 24 814
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 1 2 8 338
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 1 1 530 0 1 6 1,833
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 6 365
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 1 2 2 902
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 2 941 0 0 5 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 4 77 0 10 19 403
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 1 513 1 2 16 2,227
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 0 0 2 3,943
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 0 2 475
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 0 0 1 81
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 0 0 0 480 0 0 1 1,130
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 2 85 1 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 0 0 1 206 1 6 20 1,883
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 1 4 391 0 3 13 679
Homo economicus evolves 1 1 3 123 1 1 3 301
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,268 0 1 6 3,842
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 56 2 3 8 115
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 1 1 1 61 1 2 7 226
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 25 3 3 6 104
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 0 0 8 19,106
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 0 6 46 5,507
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 1 523 2 3 4 1,435
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 0 0 1 622
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 591 0 1 4 4,885
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 518 0 1 13 3,385
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 1 1 3 34 1 3 11 150
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 2 109 1 3 13 395
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 1 6 348 0 3 21 908
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 5 527 0 2 16 2,652
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 14 0 0 3 108
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 1 3 8 3,726
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 168 0 0 3 853
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 1 311 2 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 5 4,497
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 1 1 3 94 2 3 16 596
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 1 3 12 451
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 1 2 16 285
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 2 8 2,503 1 3 35 23,841
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 0 1 6 1,790
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 3 289 2 2 6 1,258
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 1 1 5 247
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 4 239 1 3 17 601
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 6 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 21 556 4 10 43 1,010
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 1 10 213
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 1 102 0 1 7 898
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 1 321 0 0 7 673
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 195 1 1 3 412
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 0 1 4 362
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 1 3 5 118
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 1 2 3 532 1 2 15 1,722
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 2 594 0 2 15 2,592
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 0 2 19 455 8 26 123 1,605
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 1 643 2 4 16 2,423
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 0 0 0 2,504
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 2 4 47 1 3 11 262
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 3 533 1 4 12 2,393
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 1 2 8 343
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 1 3 9 163
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 1 3 959 1 2 10 5,957
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 1,123 1 2 6 7,101
Total Working Papers 10 30 164 31,149 59 172 914 168,307


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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 3 99
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 1 10 699 2 13 49 3,160
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 245 3 5 19 874
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 1 1 1 307
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 3 106 0 2 18 612
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 0 0 4 90 1 3 16 510
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 2 22 0 4 7 114
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 2 2 2 136
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 3 22 3 5 21 133
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 2 131 0 0 9 723
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 1 1 2 413
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 4 860 2 4 24 4,265
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 1 1 7 245
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 1 9 541
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 202 2 3 4 463
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 2 16 605 9 16 76 2,116
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 0 0 6 476
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 1 2 1,420
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 2 4 7 1,009
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 38 2 6 15 226
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 4 11 75 4 12 43 389
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 3 546 1 5 20 1,739
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 4 530 0 1 11 2,565
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 0 2 201 2 3 15 576
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 1 4 191 1 2 11 949
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 6 699 4 6 62 4,590
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 7 23 473 8 22 89 1,708
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 1 2 10 561
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 286 2 2 13 1,459
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 1 1 3 584
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 1 1 3 738
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 2 296 1 2 8 1,759
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 0 4 15 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 1 11 1,520
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 1 2 2 156 1 3 3 1,089
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 1 8 553 1 6 28 1,683
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 1 20 2 4 5 544
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 0 0 2 272
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 1 130 0 0 1 616
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 1 1 5 99 3 6 25 381
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 128 0 0 8 625
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 1 1 9 5,485 2 5 24 38,768
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 4 29 3 6 19 191
The Economics of Crime 0 1 6 122 3 6 16 313
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 6 730 3 8 34 4,020
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 212 1 1 5 643
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 1 2 13 948
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 8 858 3 9 53 5,023
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 2 2 295
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 1 37 1 2 7 970
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 3 45 0 1 7 369
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 0 58 1 2 2 195
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 3 539 1 3 14 2,828
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 4 335 3 5 15 1,114
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 1 8 275 7 10 29 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 4 15 52 4,141
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 3 391 1 2 31 1,834
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 2 9 1,705 0 12 51 5,866
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 0 0 9 570
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 1 7 699 1 5 26 2,391
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 1 7 82 1 4 20 2,360
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 1 7 523
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 34
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 2 160 1 3 21 806
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 1 1 2 241
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 1 1 5 125 1 10 31 1,736
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 0 1 4 586
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 74 0 1 6 460
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 2 20 0 0 2 68
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 3 362 0 1 7 1,255
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 2 3 17 2,008
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 1 1 17 858
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 1 2 416 0 3 17 1,643
Total Journal Articles 7 30 238 24,223 108 280 1,255 133,844


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 2 9 162 1,001
Total Books 0 0 0 8 2 9 162 1,001


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 1 12 938 0 2 51 3,896
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 1 5 294 1 3 20 1,063
Total Chapters 0 2 17 1,232 1 5 71 4,959


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