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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 1 83 4 6 18 221
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 2 79 3 9 22 372
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 3 6 1,529 18 65 117 6,969
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 9 20 43 3,654
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 5 7 13 2,096
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 1 2 2 304 2 6 17 829
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 3 3 13 234
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 2 139 3 6 17 353
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 1 6 15 1,847
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 1 1 1 161 5 16 32 564
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 1 1 2 70 12 14 25 389
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 3 6 13 913
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 10 26 49 4,641
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 3 5 8 931
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 1 4 517 4 11 34 2,259
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 3 79 10 14 35 428
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 1 5 22 3,965
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 4 8 18 493
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 138 2 8 21 709
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 5 7 13 94
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 2 3 6 100
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 3 483 2 6 21 1,151
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 7 11 25 311
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 7 16 18 1,574
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 208 21 44 94 1,971
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 1 391 7 20 39 715
Homo economicus evolves 0 0 5 127 1 1 10 310
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 5 8 36 3,877
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 2 3 15 127
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 2 27 1 5 22 123
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 2 5 13 237
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 1 3 70 19,176
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 7 19 59 5,560
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 2 3 526 7 19 35 1,467
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 1 1 1 161 1 5 15 637
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 5 10 25 4,909
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 1 2 520 6 29 46 3,430
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 1 34 6 12 31 178
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 2 6 24 416
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 6 8 355 7 17 36 941
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 1 3 3 111
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 2 528 3 9 37 2,687
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 1 3 10 2,920
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 1 1 580 3 8 32 3,755
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 3 11 25 878
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 2 2 313 1 5 19 690
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 4 11 15 1,459
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 0 1,314 16 37 64 4,560
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 2 95 1 5 26 619
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 3 11 32 480
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 5 13 33 316
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 1 3 2,504 10 21 61 23,899
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 1 449 7 10 20 1,809
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 3 7 22 1,278
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 2 3 15 5,644
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 3 4 17 263
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 3 241 10 25 45 643
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 2 5 22 4,892
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 4 14 23 2,238
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 0 9 560 5 10 43 1,043
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 3 11 223
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 2 9 24 921
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 13 21 36 709
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 1 1 124 3 9 17 378
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 1 1 196 5 12 19 430
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 1 3 13 431
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 1 27 2 3 12 127
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 1 1 3 533 8 18 40 1,760
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 594 7 15 31 2,621
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 2 7 19 472 25 80 198 1,777
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 1 644 4 7 27 2,446
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 5 13 23 2,527
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 5 50 1 2 24 283
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 1 534 6 23 46 2,435
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 2 5 14 355
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 7 13 43 470
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 2 6 27 187
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 1 959 5 12 47 6,002
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 8 9 27 7,126
Total Working Papers 8 37 119 31,238 399 968 2,428 170,563


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 2 7 14 113
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 2 4 702 4 21 77 3,224
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 6 11 40 909
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 1 3 12 318
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 1 1 107 5 11 28 638
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 2 2 94 6 13 21 765
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 1 1 91 3 15 33 540
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 1 23 9 21 49 159
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 1 6 12 146
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 4 26 3 3 16 144
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 3 6 15 738
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 3 10 18 35
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 2 3 13 425
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 1 861 4 16 40 4,301
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 1 1 32 6 10 23 267
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 5 12 30 570
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 1 3 13 473
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 4 17 620 7 15 94 2,194
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 1 7 18 494
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 6 13 1,432
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 2 11 1,016
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 3 41 2 11 34 254
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 1 1 8 79 9 20 55 432
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 1 1 2 548 6 11 33 1,767
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 2 3 5 535 6 8 55 2,619
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 2 3 7 208 5 16 48 621
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 2 92 1 2 15 342
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 3 193 2 5 19 966
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 1 2 701 4 14 47 4,631
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 4 8 26 492 21 51 137 1,823
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 1 1 124 7 9 17 576
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 286 2 5 22 1,479
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 2 5 12 595
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 1 7 14 751
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 2 298 1 3 14 1,771
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 5 17 37 4,741
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 0 4 11 589
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 262 1 5 34 1,553
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 2 156 5 9 20 1,106
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 5 557 6 11 44 1,721
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 1 1 21 1 6 32 572
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 3 5 15 287
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 1 131 1 4 14 630
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 0 1 5 276
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 1 3 101 4 5 26 401
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 2 10 22 647
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 3 5,487 15 30 82 38,845
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 30 2 5 30 215
The Economics of Crime 0 0 6 127 1 4 27 334
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 1 731 4 19 47 4,059
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 213 3 7 16 658
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 634
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 115 4 9 28 974
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 2 859 2 9 32 5,046
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 2 5 12 305
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 1 2 39 1 4 15 983
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 0 45 11 26 38 406
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 1 2 60 10 19 49 242
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 2 541 3 13 45 2,870
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 336 5 12 24 1,133
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 4 5 279 2 9 39 1,359
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 0 4 9 1,042 9 37 138 4,264
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 12 20 71 1,903
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 2 5 17 1,720 9 27 107 5,961
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 1 3 13 583
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 2 4 702 3 11 42 2,428
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 1 2 4 85 7 10 36 2,392
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 2 5 14 48
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 2 16 538
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 8 167 7 13 45 848
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 1 5 16 256
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 2 5 129 18 31 67 1,793
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 2 9 18 603
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 2 76 5 5 16 475
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 0 0 9 77
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 1 2 364 1 4 13 1,267
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 1 4 34 2,039
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 4 10 35 892
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 7 422 3 5 38 1,678
Total Journal Articles 15 54 193 24,386 322 821 2,595 136,159


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 2 9 45 1,037
Total Books 0 0 0 8 2 9 45 1,037


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 6 9 13 950 12 20 40 3,934
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 2 295 0 3 19 1,079
Total Chapters 6 9 15 1,245 12 23 59 5,013


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