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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 78 2 4 10 355
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 82 4 5 10 210
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 1,525 1 5 31 6,868
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 1 3 13 3,614
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 0 0 5 2,084
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 1 302 0 0 16 814
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 1 88 2 2 3 223
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 2 138 1 2 7 340
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 1 4 7 1,837
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 0 160 1 1 2 533
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 2 69 0 0 3 365
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 0 2 902
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 1 941 2 2 6 4,594
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 0 0 3 77 3 4 22 407
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 2 2 515 2 6 17 2,233
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 2 3 4 3,946
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 2 4 5 479
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 2 4 690
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 82
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 1 1 2 96
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 1 2 2 482 2 4 5 1,134
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 2 85 2 2 7 290
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 1 2 207 3 4 15 1,887
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 4 391 2 3 14 682
Homo economicus evolves 4 4 7 127 4 6 9 307
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 1 1 1,269 1 2 6 3,844
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 1 2 57 0 3 11 118
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 1 1 26 2 5 10 109
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 0 1 5 227
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 1 2 5 19,108
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 4 8 49 5,515
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 1 2 524 1 4 8 1,439
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 3 4 5 626
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 0 1 3 4,886
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 1 2 519 2 5 15 3,390
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 3 34 4 5 13 155
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 1 109 3 3 11 398
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 1 7 349 2 5 20 913
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 4 527 3 8 21 2,660
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 1 1 3 2,911
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 3 6 11 3,732
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 1 1 169 1 2 4 855
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 0 311 1 1 10 675
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 0 0 1 1,444
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 2 1,314 0 1 4 4,498
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 1 1 3 95 3 4 16 600
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 3 5 16 290
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 3 7 16 458
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 5 2,503 2 5 24 23,846
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 2 3 7 1,793
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 3 289 0 1 7 1,259
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 922 2 3 4 5,632
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 4 239 1 2 14 603
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 1 1 2 4,871
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 466 0 0 3 2,215
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 4 4 17 560 6 8 35 1,018
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 1 1 5 899
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 1 1 7 214
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 1 321 1 2 9 675
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 195 1 1 4 413
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 2 4 8 366
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 0 2 27 2 2 7 120
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 532 1 4 14 1,726
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 594 2 3 12 2,595
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 2 6 16 461 15 36 114 1,641
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 1 643 2 3 17 2,426
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 2 5 5 2,509
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 1 1 5 48 3 4 12 266
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 1 1 2 534 2 4 13 2,397
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 0 3 9 346
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 2 2 5 126 8 10 19 438
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 1 18 2 5 12 168
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 2 959 4 7 15 5,964
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 1 2 6 7,103
Total Working Papers 16 31 142 31,114 144 273 874 168,225
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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 3 3 5 102
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 1 5 700 2 11 45 3,171
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 245 3 6 21 880
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 1 2 3 309
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 2 106 1 3 19 615
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 0 92 1 1 2 745
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 3 90 3 4 14 514
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 2 22 1 8 14 122
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 1 1 3 137
Catching Cheating Students 0 3 3 25 0 4 14 137
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 1 1 132 0 3 9 726
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 2 6 2 2 4 19
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 1 2 4 415
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 3 860 3 7 26 4,272
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 1 2 4 247
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 2 3 9 544
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 1 1 203 1 2 5 465
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 5 16 610 11 19 75 2,135
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 2 5 478
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 4 1,422
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 1 1 8 1,010
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 1 38 4 5 17 231
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 2 3 9 78 7 11 37 400
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 1 1 3 547 1 2 17 1,741
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 2 2 5 532 7 8 17 2,573
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 1 1 2 202 7 10 24 586
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 1 2 2 92 3 4 4 331
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 3 191 0 1 10 950
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 1 4 700 5 9 55 4,599
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 2 23 475 13 33 104 1,741
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 2 2 11 563
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 1 286 2 4 13 1,463
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 2 3 6 587
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 1 1 4 739
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 2 4 298 1 3 9 1,762
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 2 2 12 4,710
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 3 6 15 1,526
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 2 156 1 3 6 1,092
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 1 1 6 554 8 12 33 1,695
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 0 20 1 1 5 545
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 1 3 5 275
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 1 2 131 2 3 4 619
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 5 100 0 3 23 384
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 1 1 129 2 5 11 630
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 2 2 8 5,487 5 9 26 38,777
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 1 1 2 30 4 7 20 198
The Economics of Crime 1 4 8 126 1 7 20 320
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 5 730 3 3 32 4,023
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 212 0 2 7 645
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 624
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 2 115 4 7 16 955
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 5 858 1 1 32 5,024
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 1 3 296
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 1 1 2 38 2 3 10 973
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 1 45 0 2 5 371
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 0 58 3 10 12 205
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 1 2 4 541 1 3 13 2,831
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 1 1 2 336 2 2 12 1,116
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 6 275 4 6 28 1,336
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 2 2 7 1,035 34 39 80 4,180
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 3 391 20 22 47 1,856
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 2 4 11 1,709 7 15 59 5,881
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 1 2 10 572
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 0 4 699 1 5 20 2,396
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 1 5 83 3 8 19 2,368
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 2 3 10 526
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 35
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 1 4 5 164 7 14 27 820
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 0 1 241
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 1 1 4 126 9 13 40 1,749
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 0 2 6 588
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 2 2 76 0 3 9 463
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 1 20 1 2 3 70
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 1 362 1 2 5 1,257
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 4 7 21 2,015
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 4 7 19 865
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 6 6 7 422 15 19 30 1,662
Total Journal Articles 28 60 217 24,283 255 450 1,382 134,294


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 1 14 62 1,015
Total Books 0 0 0 8 1 14 62 1,015


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 1 11 939 1 6 46 3,902
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 1 5 295 4 8 24 1,071
Total Chapters 0 2 16 1,234 5 14 70 4,973


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