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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 79 0 1 22 373
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 83 0 1 17 222
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 1,529 7 31 137 7,000
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 0 3 15 2,099
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 304 1 2 17 831
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 0 2 15 236
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 1 139 2 3 18 356
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 0 530 0 3 17 1,850
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 1 161 0 2 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 1 12 914
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 1 9 58 4,650
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 0 19 1 3 11 934
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 2 79 0 4 29 432
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 4 517 1 4 36 2,263
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 0 2 24 3,967
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 1 2 20 495
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 1 22 710
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 1 1 15 0 1 6 101
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 0 1 14 95
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 0 3 483 1 4 25 1,155
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 0 85 0 1 24 312
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 1 9 27 1,583
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 208 0 9 97 1,980
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 1 3 3 394 2 7 43 722
Homo economicus evolves 0 1 5 128 0 1 10 311
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 4 10 45 3,887
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 0 3 15 130
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 2 27 0 2 21 125
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 0 61 0 2 13 239
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 1 6 76 19,182
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 0 2 55 5,562
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 2 5 528 1 13 45 1,480
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 1 161 1 2 17 639
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 0 2 26 4,911
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 520 1 3 48 3,433
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 0 1 22 417
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 34 0 2 30 180
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 7 355 1 6 39 947
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 1 1 2 529 1 7 42 2,694
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 0 0 3 111
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 0 0 10 2,920
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 1 580 1 5 34 3,760
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 1 4 29 882
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 16 79 4,576
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 2 96 0 7 30 626
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 1 1 165 1 6 35 486
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 1 92 0 0 31 316
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 1 2 2,505 2 4 62 23,903
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 449 0 6 25 1,815
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 289 1 1 21 1,279
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 1 1 17 264
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 1 923 1 1 16 5,645
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 3 242 2 22 64 665
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 0 4 26 4,896
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 1 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 1 2 35 1,045
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 1 11 224
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 1 4 27 925
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 323 0 5 41 714
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 124 0 1 17 379
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 196 0 2 20 432
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 0 1 14 432
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 0 27 0 2 11 129
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 1 1 2 534 6 13 51 1,773
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 594 6 8 37 2,629
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 0 2 19 474 11 38 210 1,815
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 1 2 645 0 2 25 2,448
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 0 1 24 2,528
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 3 50 0 1 22 284
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 2 535 0 7 49 2,442
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 0 0 12 355
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 0 1 43 471
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 1 3 27 190
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 959 0 5 50 6,007
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 0 3 28 7,129
Total Working Papers 3 17 106 31,255 66 347 2,603 170,910


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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 18 117
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 3 702 4 8 72 3,232
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 0 245 1 4 39 913
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 0 1 27 639
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 1 3 95 0 3 24 768
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 1 91 0 0 30 540
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 0 1 23 3 20 65 179
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 3 13 149
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 4 26 2 4 15 148
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 1 2 17 740
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 2 3 21 38
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 0 1 13 426
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 0 1 861 5 8 44 4,309
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 1 32 0 1 23 268
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 1 30 571
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 1 3 13 476
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 2 2 17 622 5 10 88 2,204
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 0 1 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 1 1 13 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 6 81 0 8 51 440
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 1 3 549 0 6 34 1,773
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 2 7 537 1 6 60 2,625
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 1 1 8 209 3 4 49 625
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 2 92 0 0 15 342
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 0 2 193 1 1 18 967
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 2 2 4 703 3 6 47 4,637
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 1 5 24 497 7 31 146 1,854
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 124 5 62 77 638
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 1 2 2 288 1 3 23 1,482
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 1 2 13 597
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 0 3 16 754
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 2 298 0 0 12 1,771
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 0 7 40 4,748
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 3 8 41 1,561
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 156 1 2 19 1,108
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 0 4 557 2 5 43 1,726
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 1 2 17 289
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 1 131 1 1 15 631
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 0 8 13 284
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 2 101 1 3 23 404
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 0 1 23 648
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 1 1 3 5,488 7 30 107 38,875
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 1 30 0 3 27 218
The Economics of Crime 1 3 8 130 2 7 28 341
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 1 731 0 1 40 4,060
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 213 0 2 17 660
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 1 4 15 638
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 0 115 0 3 29 977
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 1 1 2 860 4 7 30 5,053
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 1 3 13 308
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 1 3 40 0 4 17 987
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 2 2 47 4 11 48 417
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 2 60 1 11 58 253
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 2 541 0 10 52 2,880
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 4 11 40 1,370
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 0 2 11 1,044 6 25 148 4,289
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 0 391 2 11 80 1,914
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 3 18 1,723 3 14 109 5,975
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 0 164 2 2 15 585
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 1 2 5 704 5 17 54 2,445
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 3 85 2 5 37 2,397
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 1 1 1 3 3 3 17 51
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 7 167 1 5 47 853
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 1 3 60 1,796
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 4 4 21 607
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 2 76 1 2 17 477
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 0 1 10 78
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 0 0 2 364 1 1 13 1,268
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 0 2 33 2,041
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 6 17 51 909
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 6 422 0 5 40 1,683
Total Journal Articles 12 35 198 24,421 119 478 2,793 136,637


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 0 2 38 1,039
Total Books 0 0 0 8 0 2 38 1,039


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 2 4 16 954 3 11 49 3,945
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 1 295 0 1 17 1,080
Total Chapters 2 4 17 1,249 3 12 66 5,025


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