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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 2 78 1 5 12 358
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 82 3 8 14 214
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 1 1 5 1,526 9 18 45 6,885
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 5 8 16 3,621
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 0 0 3 2,084
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 1 302 1 4 19 818
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 1 5 5 226
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 2 138 2 6 12 345
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 0 1 7 1,837
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 0 160 3 5 6 537
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 2 69 3 4 7 369
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 1 2 4 904
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 1 941 4 9 11 4,601
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 2 19 0 0 4 925
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 2 5 79 1 8 26 412
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 2 515 1 6 17 2,237
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 4 10 12 3,954
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 3 5 7 482
Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 138 3 5 8 694
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 1 1 3 83
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 2 3 97
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 1 2 3 483 4 9 11 1,141
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 1 85 5 9 13 297
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 0 0 1 1,556
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 0 2 207 18 26 36 1,910
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 2 391 4 9 17 689
Homo economicus evolves 0 4 7 127 0 4 9 307
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 4 12 16 3,855
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 4 4 14 122
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 1 2 27 0 5 13 112
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 0 2 7 229
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 18 20 23 19,127
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 9 15 42 5,526
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 0 0 2 524 3 7 14 1,445
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 0 5 7 628
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 3 7 9 4,893
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 0 0 2 519 5 7 16 3,395
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 3 34 4 9 18 160
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 3 7 13 402
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 0 0 5 349 0 4 18 915
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 5 528 1 10 26 2,667
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 0 0 2 108
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 0 1 2 2,911
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 7 12 20 3,741
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 4 8 10 862
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 0 311 4 5 11 679
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 1 2 3 1,446
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 2 1,314 10 13 17 4,511
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 3 95 3 9 20 606
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 2 6 17 461
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 1 1 1 92 5 10 20 297
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 5 2,503 14 22 39 23,866
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 1 448 0 2 7 1,793
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 2 289 4 7 12 1,266
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 6 6 12 255
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 1 1 1 923 3 5 7 5,635
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 1 1 3 240 2 7 15 609
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 2 8 8 4,878
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 466 3 6 9 2,221
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 4 16 560 5 17 45 1,029
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 5 9 13 907
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 0 2 6 215
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 1 2 322 4 8 16 682
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 1 195 0 2 5 414
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 2 123 0 2 8 366
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 2 3 3 421
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 2 27 2 5 10 123
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 532 4 12 23 1,737
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 594 6 9 15 2,602
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 2 5 16 464 18 49 134 1,675
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 1 2 644 6 13 26 2,437
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 0 2 5 2,509
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 1 2 6 49 4 9 16 272
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 1 1 534 7 9 16 2,404
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 1 77 0 0 7 346
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 3 3 127 7 19 25 449
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 1 5 12 171
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 2 959 8 15 24 5,975
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 5 8 12 7,110
Total Working Papers 8 32 138 31,196 285 610 1,216 169,048


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 1 4 5 103
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 5 700 10 22 61 3,191
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 2 245 7 15 32 892
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 1 4 6 312
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 0 0 2 106 4 6 22 620
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 0 92 1 3 3 747
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 2 90 3 7 16 518
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 1 1 3 23 5 11 24 132
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 0 1 3 137
Catching Cheating Students 1 1 4 26 2 3 16 140
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 1 2 10 728
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 1 6 2 6 7 23
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 2 5 8 419
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 1 1 2 861 6 9 24 4,278
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 0 0 0 31 3 6 9 252
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 8 11 15 553
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 1 4 8 468
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 4 13 613 13 32 78 2,156
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 3 7 11 484
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 2 3 6 1,424
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 0 1 7 1,010
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 1 3 3 41 3 11 20 238
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 2 7 78 4 15 37 408
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 1 2 547 5 9 23 1,749
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 2 3 532 19 29 35 2,595
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 1 3 4 204 6 16 31 595
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 1 2 92 2 6 7 334
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 1 1 2 192 5 8 15 958
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 3 700 5 13 52 4,607
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 7 27 482 8 32 108 1,760
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 0 0 1 123 1 3 11 564
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 286 3 7 14 1,468
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 0 2 4 587
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 1 2 4 740
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 3 298 1 2 9 1,763
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 9 14 24 4,722
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 0 2 261 6 14 24 1,537
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 2 156 1 3 8 1,094
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 1 4 9 557 4 16 39 1,703
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 0 20 3 6 10 550
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 3 4 8 278
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 2 131 1 3 5 620
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 0 2 3 273
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 0 0 5 100 1 2 24 386
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 3 5 10 633
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 2 8 5,487 20 31 51 38,803
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 1 2 30 0 10 25 204
The Economics of Crime 1 2 9 127 6 7 24 326
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 1 1 5 731 5 12 35 4,032
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 1 1 2 213 1 3 9 648
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 626
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 2 115 3 13 24 964
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 3 858 4 8 29 5,031
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 0 0 3 296
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 0 1 1 38 3 5 10 976
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 0 45 2 6 10 377
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 0 0 0 58 4 11 20 213
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 1 3 541 16 23 31 2,853
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 1 2 336 0 2 11 1,116
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 4 275 3 9 30 1,341
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 1 4 8 1,037 27 67 104 4,213
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 2 391 9 35 51 1,871
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 1 8 16 1,715 15 47 90 5,921
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 0 2 9 573
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 0 1 2 700 8 13 27 2,408
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 5 83 6 12 28 2,377
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 3 6 9 530
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 37
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 2 3 7 166 5 16 33 829
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 2 4 5 245
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 0 1 4 126 4 17 41 1,757
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 1 179 3 5 11 593
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 2 76 1 2 10 465
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 1 20 0 1 3 70
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 1 1 1 363 2 3 6 1,259
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 6 12 22 2,023
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 5 17 31 878
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 6 7 422 3 20 31 1,667
Total Journal Articles 18 65 213 24,320 338 810 1,726 134,849


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 2 5 52 1,019
Total Books 0 0 0 8 2 5 52 1,019


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 0 0 9 939 6 8 46 3,909
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 3 295 1 7 19 1,074
Total Chapters 0 0 12 1,234 7 15 65 4,983


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