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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 82 1 3 5 204
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 77 0 0 7 350
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 1 7 1,523 3 10 77 6,855
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 2 921 0 3 25 3,611
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 0 0 5 2,083
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 1 4 302 0 2 26 812
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 1 88 0 0 2 221
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 1 137 0 1 7 336
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 529 0 2 7 1,832
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 160 0 0 4 532
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 1 1 68 0 2 7 364
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 0 0 900
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 2 941 0 0 6 4,592
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 2 2 19 0 2 2 923
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 3 76 1 4 11 394
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 1 513 1 4 16 2,226
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 1 1 81
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 94
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 1 2 85 0 1 4 286
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 5 5 22 1,882
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 1 1 5 391 3 5 15 679
Homo economicus evolves 0 0 3 122 0 0 6 300
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,268 1 2 7 3,842
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 56 0 3 8 112
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 0 60 1 1 6 225
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 25 0 1 3 101
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 0 2 10 19,106
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 4 13 44 5,505
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 1 523 1 1 3 1,433
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 1 1 4 4,885
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 518 1 3 13 3,385
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 2 109 1 3 14 393
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 2 2 33 0 3 8 147
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 1 2 9 348 2 6 28 907
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 14 0 2 3 108
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 3 4 526 1 9 16 2,651
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 1 6 3,724
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 168 0 1 3 853
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 1 311 0 0 17 671
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 358 0 1 4 1,444
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 1 2 1,314 0 1 5 4,496
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 3 93 1 5 21 594
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 164 1 3 12 449
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 91 1 5 21 284
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 1 8 2,501 0 4 39 23,838
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 0 1 5 1,789
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 2 3 289 0 2 5 1,256
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 52 0 0 7 246
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 922 0 0 4 5,629
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 1 2 4 239 2 6 18 600
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 0 0 3 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 3 5 19 554 6 12 41 1,006
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 1 10 212
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 1 102 0 0 11 897
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 1 1 321 0 5 9 673
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 195 0 1 6 411
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 1 1 4 362
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 0 2 418
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 1 1 26 0 2 2 115
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 1 1 2 531 1 2 14 1,721
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 1 2 594 2 3 17 2,592
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 1 3 21 454 12 32 127 1,591
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 1 2 643 0 5 13 2,419
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 2 4 4 47 2 5 11 261
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 6 533 2 2 22 2,391
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 0 1 6 341
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 124 0 2 8 427
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 1 18 2 3 11 162
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 1 2 3 959 1 4 10 5,956
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 1 1,123 1 1 7 7,100
Total Working Papers 11 41 165 31,130 63 207 942 168,198


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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 1 3 10 699 3 15 43 3,150
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 1 2 245 0 6 17 869
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 306
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 1 3 106 1 5 18 611
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 1 5 90 1 4 17 508
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 1 3 22 1 2 5 111
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 134
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 3 22 1 5 20 129
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 3 131 0 4 11 723
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 0 0 2 412
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 1 4 860 2 4 23 4,263
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 0 1 7 244
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 3 9 541
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 202 0 0 1 460
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 2 21 603 4 16 77 2,104
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 0 1 7 476
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 0 1 2 1,419
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 1 2 4 1,006
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 38 1 2 10 221
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 2 2 11 73 5 7 45 382
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 1 4 546 2 6 18 1,736
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 5 530 0 1 12 2,564
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 1 2 201 1 8 14 574
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 0 3 190 0 1 10 947
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 2 7 699 2 15 68 4,586
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 4 10 25 470 8 28 89 1,694
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 0 2 8 559
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 2 286 0 3 14 1,457
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 0 3 583
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 0 2 737
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 1 2 296 0 2 6 1,757
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 1 2 12 4,705
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 1 3 261 0 3 10 1,519
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 1 1 1 155 1 1 1 1,087
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 1 8 552 1 5 27 1,678
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 2 20 2 2 7 542
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 0 2 3 272
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 1 1 130 0 1 1 616
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 1 78 0 1 2 271
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 2 5 98 1 8 22 376
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 2 128 0 2 9 625
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 2 9 5,484 2 7 24 38,765
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 4 29 1 3 16 186
The Economics of Crime 0 2 6 121 2 5 14 309
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 2 8 730 2 4 31 4,014
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 1 212 0 1 4 642
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 1 4 115 1 4 16 947
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 2 10 857 3 8 59 5,017
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 1 1 1 294
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 1 37 1 2 6 969
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 3 45 1 1 10 369
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 58 1 1 4 194
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 1 3 539 1 2 14 2,826
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 4 335 0 1 11 1,109
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 1 2 9 275 3 5 28 1,323
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 0 2 8 1,033 3 13 42 4,129
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 1 3 391 1 10 33 1,833
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 2 5 13 1,705 11 20 57 5,865
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 2 2 164 0 3 11 570
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 1 1 8 699 3 6 25 2,389
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 6 81 1 4 19 2,357
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 34
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 1 6 522
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 3 159 0 1 23 803
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 0 2 240
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 2 4 124 1 7 22 1,727
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 1 2 4 586
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 74 1 3 6 460
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 2 20 0 0 3 68
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 3 362 0 0 7 1,254
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 1 2 19 2,006
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 0 4 20 857
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 1 1 2 416 1 5 16 1,641
Total Journal Articles 13 61 263 24,206 83 298 1,222 133,647


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 3 9 177 995
Total Books 0 0 0 8 3 9 177 995


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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 1 5 15 938 1 8 59 3,895
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 1 1 5 294 1 3 23 1,061
Total Chapters 2 6 20 1,232 2 11 82 4,956


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