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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 83 1 5 18 222
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 79 1 4 23 373
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 5 1,529 13 42 135 6,993
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 0 9 43 3,654
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 1 8 15 2,099
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 1 2 304 0 3 17 830
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 1 5 15 236
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 139 1 4 17 354
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 0 530 1 4 17 1,850
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 1 1 161 1 7 34 566
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 1 1 70 0 12 24 389
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 4 13 914
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 4 18 57 4,649
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 0 5 10 933
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 2 79 1 14 29 432
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 4 517 0 7 36 2,262
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 2 3 24 3,967
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 1 5 19 494
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 3 22 710
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 1 1 1 15 1 3 6 101
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 6 14 95
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 3 483 3 5 24 1,154
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 1 8 25 312
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 3 15 26 1,582
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 208 4 30 98 1,980
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 2 2 2 393 2 12 41 720
Homo economicus evolves 1 1 6 128 1 2 11 311
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 3 11 41 3,883
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 3 5 17 130
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 0 4 14 239
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 2 27 2 3 24 125
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 3 6 75 19,181
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 2 9 55 5,562
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 2 5 528 4 19 46 1,479
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 1 1 161 0 2 16 638
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 1 7 26 4,911
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 520 1 8 47 3,432
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 1 34 0 8 31 180
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 0 3 23 417
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 7 355 2 12 38 946
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 0 1 3 111
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 528 4 9 41 2,693
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 0 1 10 2,920
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 1 580 2 7 34 3,759
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 1 6 28 881
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 313 0 1 18 690
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 0 4 15 1,459
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 0 1,314 9 31 78 4,575
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 1 1 3 96 1 8 32 626
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 0 5 32 316
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 1 1 165 2 8 35 485
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 2 3 2,505 1 12 61 23,901
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 449 1 13 25 1,815
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 0 3 22 1,278
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 0 2 15 5,644
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 0 3 17 263
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 1 1 3 242 19 30 63 663
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 0 6 26 4,896
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 1 5 24 2,239
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 0 6 560 0 6 38 1,044
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 1 11 224
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 2 5 26 924
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 1 18 41 714
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 124 0 4 17 379
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 196 1 7 21 432
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 1 2 14 432
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 0 27 0 4 12 129
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 1 2 533 4 15 46 1,767
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 594 2 9 31 2,623
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 0 4 19 474 12 52 207 1,804
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 1 2 645 0 6 27 2,448
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 0 6 24 2,528
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 3 50 0 2 23 284
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 2 535 3 13 50 2,442
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 0 2 13 355
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 1 8 43 471
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 1 4 27 189
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 959 2 10 51 6,007
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 3 11 29 7,129
Total Working Papers 6 22 113 31,252 138 680 2,596 170,844


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 0 4 16 115
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 1 3 702 2 8 70 3,228
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 2 9 41 912
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 0 1 12 318
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 1 107 0 6 27 639
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 1 3 95 1 9 24 768
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 1 91 0 3 31 540
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 1 23 13 26 62 176
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 1 4 15 149
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 4 26 1 5 16 146
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 1 4 16 739
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 0 4 19 36
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 1 3 14 426
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 1 861 2 7 41 4,304
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 32 0 7 24 268
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 6 30 571
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 0 3 14 475
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 1 16 620 3 12 92 2,199
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 2 19 495
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 13 1,432
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 0 9 1,016
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 3 41 1 3 31 255
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 2 3 6 81 3 17 55 440
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 2 3 549 1 12 35 1,773
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 2 4 7 537 3 11 59 2,624
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 2 7 208 0 6 48 622
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 2 92 0 1 15 342
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 2 193 0 2 18 966
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 2 701 1 7 48 4,634
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 8 25 496 6 45 147 1,847
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 124 56 64 73 633
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 1 1 1 287 1 4 24 1,481
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 3 13 596
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 4 17 754
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 2 298 0 1 13 1,771
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 1 12 40 4,748
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 1 1 12 590
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 262 2 6 39 1,558
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 1 156 0 6 19 1,107
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 4 557 0 9 42 1,724
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 1 21 0 1 30 572
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 1 4 16 288
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 1 131 0 1 14 630
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 5 8 13 284
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 3 101 0 6 25 403
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 1 3 23 648
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 3 5,487 16 38 102 38,868
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 30 0 5 30 218
The Economics of Crime 1 2 7 129 3 6 29 339
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 1 731 0 5 43 4,060
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 213 0 5 18 660
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 1 5 14 637
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 115 1 7 30 977
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 859 0 5 29 5,049
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 2 4 12 307
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 1 1 3 40 1 5 18 987
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 1 2 2 47 3 18 44 413
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 60 2 20 58 252
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 2 541 4 13 53 2,880
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 336 2 7 24 1,135
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 1 1 5 280 2 9 43 1,366
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 1 2 11 1,044 9 28 146 4,283
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 3 21 79 1,912
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 5 18 1,723 4 20 106 5,972
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 0 1 13 583
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 1 4 703 4 15 50 2,440
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 1 3 85 3 10 36 2,395
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 3 18 541
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 2 14 48
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 7 167 2 11 47 852
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 1 16 256
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 0 5 129 1 20 60 1,795
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 0 2 17 603
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 2 76 1 6 16 476
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 1 1 10 78
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 2 364 0 1 12 1,267
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 2 3 35 2,041
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 5 15 46 903
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 6 422 5 8 40 1,683
Total Journal Articles 12 38 193 24,409 189 681 2,782 136,518


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 2 4 40 1,039
Total Books 0 0 0 8 2 4 40 1,039


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 8 14 952 2 20 46 3,942
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 1 295 0 1 18 1,080
Total Chapters 0 8 15 1,247 2 21 64 5,022


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