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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 83 0 4 17 221
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 1 2 79 0 5 22 372
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 6 1,529 11 45 125 6,980
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 0 14 43 3,654
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 2 7 15 2,098
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 2 2 304 1 4 18 830
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 1 4 14 235
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 2 139 0 5 17 353
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 2 4 17 1,849
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 1 1 161 1 7 33 565
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 1 2 70 0 12 25 389
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 1 4 14 914
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 4 25 53 4,645
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 2 6 10 933
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 3 79 3 17 37 431
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 4 517 3 11 36 2,262
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 0 1 22 3,965
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 6 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 1 7 22 710
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 1 7 14 95
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 3 6 100
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 3 483 0 3 21 1,151
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 0 8 25 311
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 5 18 23 1,579
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 208 5 39 94 1,976
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 0 391 3 17 39 718
Homo economicus evolves 0 0 5 127 0 1 10 310
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 3 8 38 3,880
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 0 3 15 127
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 2 5 14 239
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 2 27 0 1 22 123
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 2 4 72 19,178
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 0 13 55 5,560
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 3 5 528 8 20 42 1,475
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 1 1 161 1 5 16 638
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 1 7 25 4,910
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 520 1 21 46 3,431
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 1 4 24 417
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 1 34 2 12 33 180
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 4 7 355 3 16 37 944
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 2 528 2 7 38 2,689
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 1 1 580 2 8 33 3,757
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 2 11 27 880
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 1 2 313 0 4 19 690
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 0 6 15 1,459
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 0 1,314 6 32 70 4,566
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 2 95 6 9 31 625
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 1 1 1 165 3 10 34 483
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 0 11 32 316
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 2 4 2,505 1 19 62 23,900
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 1 449 5 14 25 1,814
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 0 5 22 1,278
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 0 4 17 263
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 0 2 15 5,644
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 2 241 1 18 44 644
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 4 7 26 4,896
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 0 11 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 6 560 1 9 38 1,044
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 1 3 12 224
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 1 8 25 922
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 4 23 40 713
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 196 1 7 20 431
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 1 1 124 1 9 17 379
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 1 13 431
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 1 27 2 5 14 129
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 1 2 533 3 19 42 1,763
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 594 0 14 29 2,621
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 2 7 20 474 15 69 201 1,792
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 1 1 2 645 2 8 29 2,448
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 1 9 24 2,528
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 3 50 1 3 23 284
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 1 1 2 535 4 18 48 2,439
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 0 3 14 355
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 0 9 43 470
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 1 4 26 188
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 959 3 13 49 6,005
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 0 8 26 7,126
Total Working Papers 8 32 116 31,246 143 825 2,508 170,706


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 2 5 16 115
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 2 3 702 2 11 76 3,226
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 1 9 41 910
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 1 9 28 639
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 1 3 3 95 2 12 23 767
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 1 1 91 0 7 32 540
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 1 23 4 20 52 163
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 2 5 14 148
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 4 26 1 4 16 145
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 0 3 15 738
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 1 6 19 36
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 0 2 13 425
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 1 861 1 10 39 4,302
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 32 1 10 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 0 9 29 570
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 2 4 15 475
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 3 17 620 2 12 92 2,196
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 0 5 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 0 3 13 1,432
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 1 10 1,016
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 3 41 0 3 33 254
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 1 6 79 5 21 55 437
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 1 2 3 549 5 12 36 1,772
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 3 5 535 2 9 57 2,621
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 2 7 208 1 13 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 3 193 0 4 19 966
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 1 2 701 2 13 47 4,633
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 8 24 494 18 56 147 1,841
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 124 1 9 18 577
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 286 1 3 23 1,480
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 1 4 13 596
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 3 5 17 754
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 2 298 0 1 14 1,771
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 6 17 42 4,747
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 0 2 11 589
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 262 3 6 37 1,556
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 1 156 1 9 20 1,107
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 5 557 3 9 46 1,724
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 1 1 21 0 4 30 572
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 0 5 15 287
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 1 131 0 4 14 630
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 3 3 8 279
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 3 101 2 6 27 403
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 0 7 22 647
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 3 5,487 7 34 87 38,852
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 30 3 6 32 218
The Economics of Crime 1 1 7 128 2 5 27 336
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 1 731 1 16 46 4,060
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 213 2 6 18 660
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 2 4 13 636
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 115 2 10 29 976
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 2 859 3 11 32 5,049
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 3 11 305
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 0 2 39 3 4 17 986
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 1 1 1 46 4 26 41 410
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 60 8 24 56 250
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 2 541 6 11 50 2,876
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 336 0 11 24 1,133
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 4 279 5 8 41 1,364
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 1 3 10 1,043 10 30 145 4,274
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 6 24 76 1,909
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 3 8 18 1,723 7 30 103 5,968
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 0 2 13 583
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 1 1 4 703 8 13 47 2,436
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 1 4 85 0 8 35 2,392
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 3 5 19 541
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 5 14 48
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 8 167 2 12 47 850
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 1 5 129 1 24 67 1,794
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 0 5 15 475
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 0 2 364 0 2 13 1,267
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 0 1 33 2,039
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 6 11 41 898
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 6 422 0 4 37 1,678
Total Journal Articles 11 44 191 24,397 170 732 2,682 136,329


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 0 6 42 1,037
Total Books 0 0 0 8 0 6 42 1,037


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 2 9 14 952 6 20 45 3,940
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 1 295 1 2 19 1,080
Total Chapters 2 9 15 1,247 7 22 64 5,020


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