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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 2 17 223
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 79 4 5 24 377
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 1,529 12 32 146 7,012
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 0 0 43 3,654
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 1 2 16 2,100
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 1 1 3 305 1 2 18 832
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 0 1 15 236
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 139 1 4 19 357
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 0 530 0 1 15 1,850
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 161 0 1 34 566
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 1 70 0 0 24 389
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 0 0 12 914
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 2 7 60 4,652
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 1 2 12 935
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 1 1 5 518 6 7 41 2,269
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 2 79 5 6 33 437
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 22 24 46 3,989
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 0 2 19 495
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 22 710
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 1 1 15 1 2 7 102
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 0 13 95
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 2 483 7 11 30 1,162
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 4 5 28 316
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 1 5 28 1,584
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 1 208 1 5 97 1,981
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 3 3 394 5 9 47 727
Homo economicus evolves 0 1 5 128 0 1 9 311
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 0 1,269 4 11 48 3,891
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 0 57 1 4 14 131
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 2 27 2 4 22 127
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 0 61 2 2 14 241
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 3 7 78 19,185
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 1 3 54 5,563
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 4 528 2 7 45 1,482
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 1 161 0 1 16 639
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 2 3 27 4,913
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 520 2 4 49 3,435
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 34 41 41 70 221
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 1 1 23 418
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 6 355 0 3 38 947
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 2 529 2 7 39 2,696
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 3 3 6 114
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 1 1 11 2,921
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 1 580 3 6 34 3,763
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 169 2 4 30 884
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 313 0 0 16 690
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 0 0 15 1,459
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 0 1,314 1 11 80 4,577
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 2 96 3 4 33 629
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 165 3 6 37 489
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 2 2 32 318
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 1 3 2,506 4 7 64 23,907
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 449 1 2 25 1,816
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 2 3 22 1,281
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 3 4 18 267
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 1 2 17 5,646
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 3 242 2 23 65 667
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 0 0 26 4,896
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 0 2 25 2,240
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 0 4 560 2 3 36 1,047
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 1 1 12 225
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 5 8 32 930
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 5 6 45 719
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 196 2 3 22 434
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 124 2 2 18 381
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 1 2 15 433
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 0 27 1 1 12 130
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 1 2 534 1 11 49 1,774
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 1 1 1 595 3 11 40 2,632
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 1 1 17 475 11 34 208 1,826
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 2 645 1 1 25 2,449
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 1 1 23 2,529
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 3 50 1 1 22 285
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 2 535 2 5 50 2,444
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 1 1 12 356
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 1 2 44 472
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 1 3 28 191
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 959 1 3 49 6,008
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 0 3 27 7,129
Total Working Papers 5 14 101 31,260 212 416 2,737 171,122


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 2 4 20 119
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 2 702 5 11 74 3,237
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 2 5 41 915
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 0 0 11 318
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 1 107 1 1 28 640
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 3 95 0 1 24 768
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 1 91 4 4 33 544
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 1 23 1 17 59 180
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 1 13 149
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 2 26 1 4 13 149
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 1 3 18 741
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 2 4 23 40
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 0 1 13 426
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 1 1 2 862 53 60 95 4,362
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 32 1 1 24 269
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 2 3 32 573
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 1 2 14 477
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 2 14 622 14 22 98 2,218
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 0 1 18 495
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 12 1,433
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 0 7 1,016
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 3 41 0 1 29 255
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 2 5 81 4 7 51 444
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 3 549 2 3 36 1,775
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 2 7 537 0 4 60 2,625
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 0 1 8 209 1 4 48 626
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 1 92 0 0 14 342
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 2 193 0 1 18 967
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 2 4 703 1 5 46 4,638
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 3 24 497 11 24 149 1,865
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 124 1 62 78 639
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 2 2 288 1 3 22 1,483
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 1 12 597
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 0 16 754
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 0 298 1 1 11 1,772
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 1 2 41 4,749
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 0 1 12 590
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 1 262 2 7 42 1,563
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 156 0 1 17 1,108
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 4 557 3 5 43 1,729
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 1 21 0 0 28 572
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 5 7 21 294
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 0 131 1 2 15 632
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 1 1 1 79 2 7 15 286
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 101 2 3 24 406
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 0 1 22 648
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 1 3 5,488 10 33 115 38,885
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 30 1 1 26 219
The Economics of Crime 0 2 7 130 0 5 25 341
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 1 731 2 2 42 4,062
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 1 1 2 214 2 2 18 662
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 0 2 15 638
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 115 0 1 26 977
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 2 860 9 13 39 5,062
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 1 4 14 309
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 1 3 40 1 2 17 988
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 1 2 47 0 7 47 417
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 60 0 3 55 253
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 1 541 3 7 54 2,883
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 336 0 2 21 1,135
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 1 5 280 2 8 42 1,372
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 2 3 13 1,046 12 27 157 4,301
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 3 8 81 1,917
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 0 17 1,723 7 14 113 5,982
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 1 3 16 586
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 1 5 704 3 12 57 2,448
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 2 85 0 5 35 2,397
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 2 2 19 543
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 1 1 3 0 3 16 51
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 7 167 2 5 47 855
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 0 0 15 256
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 0 4 129 3 5 63 1,799
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 0 4 21 607
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 76 0 2 15 477
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 2 3 11 80
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 2 364 1 2 13 1,269
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 0 2 32 2,041
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 13 24 62 922
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 6 422 2 7 42 1,685
Total Journal Articles 5 29 186 24,426 210 518 2,911 136,847


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 1 3 34 1,040
Total Books 0 0 0 8 1 3 34 1,040


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 2 16 954 0 5 46 3,945
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 1 295 1 1 17 1,081
Total Chapters 0 2 17 1,249 1 6 63 5,026


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