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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 82 0 2 7 206
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 2 78 0 3 9 353
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 1 6 1,525 1 9 34 6,867
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 1 921 2 2 16 3,613
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 1 19 814
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 1 88 0 0 2 221
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 2 138 1 2 7 339
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 1 3 8 1,836
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 0 160 0 0 2 532
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 2 69 0 0 4 365
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 1 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 2 2 4 925
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 3 77 0 1 19 404
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 2 2 3 515 3 5 19 2,231
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 1 1 2 3,944
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 1 2 3 477
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 1 3 689
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 95
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 82
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 1 1 481 0 2 3 1,132
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 2 85 0 1 6 288
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 0 2 18 1,884
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 4 391 0 1 13 680
Homo economicus evolves 0 1 3 123 1 3 5 303
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 1 1 1,269 0 1 6 3,843
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 1 2 57 1 5 11 118
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 1 1 2 26 2 6 9 107
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 1 1 61 0 2 6 227
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 0 1 5 19,107
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 2 4 48 5,511
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 1 2 524 1 5 7 1,438
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 0 1 2 623
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 591 0 1 5 4,886
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 1 1 2 519 2 3 14 3,388
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 1 109 0 1 10 395
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 1 3 34 0 2 9 151
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 1 7 349 2 3 19 911
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 5 527 0 5 20 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 0 4 11 3,729
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 1 1 169 0 1 4 854
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 0 311 0 2 12 674
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 1 1 5 4,498
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 2 94 1 3 14 597
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 1 3 15 287
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 3 5 13 455
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 1 7 2,503 1 4 30 23,844
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 0 1 6 1,791
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 3 289 0 3 7 1,259
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 922 1 1 4 5,630
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 0 4 239 0 2 15 602
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 0 0 1 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 16 556 1 6 35 1,012
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 0 9 213
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 0 0 5 898
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 1 321 0 1 8 674
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 1 2 6 364
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 0 2 27 0 1 5 118
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 1 2 532 0 4 15 1,725
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 594 1 1 11 2,593
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 1 4 18 459 8 29 122 1,626
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 1 643 0 3 16 2,424
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 1 3 3 2,507
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 4 47 0 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 14 2,395
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 2 4 10 346
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 124 2 2 11 430
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 1 18 3 4 12 166
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 3 959 1 4 13 5,960
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 1,123 0 2 7 7,102
Total Working Papers 5 25 151 31,098 53 187 853 168,081
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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 0 1 8 700 6 11 48 3,169
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 245 3 6 21 877
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 1 2 2 308
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 3 106 2 2 19 614
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 3 90 0 2 13 511
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 2 22 0 7 13 121
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 2 2 136
Catching Cheating Students 1 3 3 25 1 7 16 137
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 1 1 1 132 3 3 9 726
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 3 6 0 0 3 17
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 1 2 3 414
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 4 860 2 6 27 4,269
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 1 2 4 246
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 1 8 542
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 1 1 1 203 1 3 5 464
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 5 19 609 4 17 76 2,124
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 0 1 5 477
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 0 2 3 1,421
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 2 7 1,009
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 1 38 1 3 14 227
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 1 11 76 0 8 40 393
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 2 546 1 2 18 1,740
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 3 530 1 1 10 2,566
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 0 2 201 1 5 18 579
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 1 1 91 0 1 2 328
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 3 191 1 2 10 950
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 1 1 5 700 2 8 60 4,594
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 4 23 475 12 28 95 1,728
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 0 1 9 561
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 286 0 4 14 1,461
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 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 0 2 4 298 0 3 10 1,761
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 0 0 11 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 2 4 13 1,523
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 1 2 156 0 3 5 1,091
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 6 553 1 5 29 1,687
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 2 4 274
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 1 2 131 0 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 1 2 5 100 2 6 25 384
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 1 1 1 129 2 3 10 628
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 1 6 5,485 2 6 21 38,772
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 2 29 1 6 19 194
The Economics of Crime 2 3 8 125 3 9 21 319
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 5 730 0 3 32 4,020
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 212 1 3 7 645
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 0 4 13 951
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 5 858 0 3 36 5,023
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 1 1 3 296
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 1 37 0 2 8 971
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 2 45 1 2 8 371
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 0 58 4 8 9 202
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 1 3 540 1 3 13 2,830
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 335 0 3 11 1,114
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 6 275 2 9 26 1,332
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 0 0 8 1,033 2 9 51 4,146
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 3 391 0 3 29 1,836
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 1 2 9 1,707 5 8 54 5,874
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 1 1 9 571
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 0 5 699 4 5 25 2,395
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 1 7 83 3 6 23 2,365
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 1 8 524
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 3 3 5 163 5 8 24 813
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 4 5 34 1,740
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 2 2 6 588
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 2 2 76 1 3 9 463
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 1 20 0 1 2 69
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 1 362 0 1 4 1,256
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 2 5 20 2,011
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 1 4 18 861
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 2 416 4 4 20 1,647
Total Journal Articles 15 39 220 24,255 103 303 1,265 134,039


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 8 15 92 1,014
Total Books 0 0 0 8 8 15 92 1,014


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 1 1 13 939 2 5 49 3,901
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 1 1 5 295 3 5 21 1,067
Total Chapters 2 2 18 1,234 5 10 70 4,968


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