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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 0 0 1 78 4 10 17 367
A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign 1 1 1 83 2 6 16 217
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 3 4 7 1,529 31 59 90 6,935
An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization 0 0 0 921 6 24 32 3,640
An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders 0 0 0 426 2 7 8 2,091
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 1 302 3 9 16 826
Can field experiments return agricultural economics to the glory days? 0 0 0 88 0 6 10 231
Catching Cheating Students 0 0 2 138 1 5 13 348
Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory 0 0 1 530 4 8 15 1,845
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players 0 0 0 160 10 24 26 558
Checkmate: Exploring backward induction among chess players 0 0 2 69 2 11 15 377
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 119 3 7 10 910
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities 0 0 0 941 5 23 28 4,620
Crimen en Colombia: análisis y sugerencias de política 0 0 2 19 1 2 6 927
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 0 0 3 79 0 3 24 414
Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment 1 2 4 517 3 15 29 2,251
Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics 0 0 0 407 4 14 21 3,964
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury 0 0 0 94 2 8 12 487
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 12 15 703
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 17 1 6 8 88
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 0 14 0 0 3 97
Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future 0 1 3 483 3 11 18 1,148
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 0 0 1 85 3 11 18 303
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 343 3 5 5 1,561
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 1 2 208 10 45 60 1,937
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 1 391 6 16 27 701
Homo economicus evolves 0 0 5 127 0 2 9 309
How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League 0 0 1 1,269 3 21 32 3,872
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention 0 0 1 57 0 6 15 124
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 2 27 4 10 22 122
Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions 0 0 1 61 2 5 10 234
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 0 1,818 1 65 70 19,174
Legalized Abortion and Crime 0 0 0 736 6 30 55 5,547
Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 1 1 2 525 7 13 23 1,455
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) 0 0 0 160 1 5 11 633
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 591 4 13 19 4,903
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine 1 1 2 520 9 20 28 3,410
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 3 34 2 12 24 168
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights 0 0 0 109 3 14 23 413
Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League 2 2 5 351 4 13 27 928
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 0 14 2 2 4 110
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 0 5 528 4 16 40 2,682
Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 0 305 2 8 9 2,919
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link" 0 0 0 579 2 15 26 3,749
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 1 169 2 11 17 869
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 1 1 1 312 1 11 15 686
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 0 358 5 8 10 1,453
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 1 1,314 11 33 39 4,534
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 3 95 2 13 27 616
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 0 0 164 4 14 27 473
The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 0 1 1 92 2 13 26 305
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 0 3 2,503 3 29 47 23,881
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 0 0 448 1 7 12 1,800
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 2 289 2 11 19 1,273
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 1 1 923 1 10 13 5,642
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 0 52 0 10 13 259
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades 0 1 3 240 8 19 32 626
The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime 0 0 0 777 2 13 19 4,889
The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 0 466 3 9 12 2,227
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics 0 0 11 560 2 11 41 1,035
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 47 1 6 10 221
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents 0 0 0 102 2 12 17 914
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker 0 1 3 323 2 12 22 690
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 1 1 1 196 6 10 14 424
The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance 0 0 0 123 1 4 9 370
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 0 0 0 139 2 11 12 430
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant 0 0 2 27 0 3 11 124
Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about It 0 0 2 532 2 11 25 1,744
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 594 1 11 18 2,607
Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber 2 5 16 467 26 66 164 1,723
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime 0 0 2 644 1 9 26 2,440
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 0 0 0 380 5 10 15 2,519
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 2 7 50 0 13 25 281
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 0 1 534 9 24 32 2,421
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 0 77 2 6 12 352
What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World 0 0 3 127 4 19 36 461
What happens in the field stays in the field: Professionals do not play minimax in laboratory experiments 0 0 0 18 3 14 25 184
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 2 959 2 25 40 5,992
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 0 1,123 1 13 19 7,118
Total Working Papers 13 26 125 31,214 286 1,118 1,890 169,881


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AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF COMPETING EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MIDTERM GAP IN THE U.S. HOUSE* 0 0 0 29 4 8 11 110
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 0 0 4 700 12 34 80 3,215
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics 0 0 1 245 3 16 38 901
An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics 0 0 0 101 2 6 11 317
An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders 1 1 2 107 3 14 24 630
Are PACs Trying to Influence Politicians or Voters? 0 0 0 92 3 9 11 755
Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization 0 0 1 90 8 18 29 533
Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games 0 1 2 23 5 16 34 143
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? 0 0 0 46 3 6 9 143
Catching Cheating Students 0 1 4 26 0 3 17 141
Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players 0 0 1 132 3 8 16 735
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress 0 0 0 6 5 9 13 30
Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance 0 0 0 63 1 6 11 423
Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities 0 1 2 861 7 20 33 4,292
EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY 1 1 1 32 1 9 15 258
Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up 0 0 0 121 3 16 23 561
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study 0 0 1 203 1 4 11 471
Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future 1 5 16 617 5 41 96 2,184
Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce 0 0 0 67 2 8 14 489
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 3 7 11 1,429
Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets 0 0 0 311 1 5 11 1,015
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan 0 1 3 41 8 16 32 251
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness 0 0 7 78 4 12 41 416
How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? 0 0 2 547 4 16 30 1,760
How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology 0 0 2 532 1 36 49 2,612
Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data 1 3 6 206 4 20 43 609
Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines 0 0 2 92 1 9 14 341
Is No. News Bad News? Information Transmission and the Role of "Early Warning" in the Principal-Agent Model 0 2 3 193 1 9 16 962
Juvenile Crime and Punishment 0 0 3 700 3 18 49 4,620
Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions 2 6 26 486 13 33 119 1,785
Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz 1 1 1 124 1 5 11 568
Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack 0 0 0 286 3 12 23 1,477
Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal 0 0 0 112 2 5 9 592
Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform 0 0 0 162 5 10 12 749
Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth 0 0 3 298 2 8 15 1,770
Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence 0 0 0 4 6 17 27 4,730
Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter 0 0 0 12 2 9 9 587
Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating 0 1 2 262 2 19 34 1,550
Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness 0 0 2 156 1 5 12 1,098
Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer 0 1 6 557 5 16 42 1,715
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link 0 0 0 20 2 21 28 568
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children 0 0 0 46 0 7 12 282
Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment 0 0 2 131 0 7 11 626
Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup 0 0 0 78 1 3 6 276
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance 1 1 5 101 1 12 29 397
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade 0 0 1 129 3 10 17 640
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names 0 0 5 5,487 3 35 60 38,818
The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns 0 0 2 30 2 8 29 212
The Economics of Crime 0 1 8 127 1 11 27 331
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation 0 1 3 731 4 17 34 4,044
The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries 0 1 2 213 3 7 13 654
The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison 0 0 0 0 2 8 9 632
The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes 0 0 1 115 1 5 23 966
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime 0 0 3 858 1 11 29 5,038
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing 0 0 0 50 2 6 9 302
The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests 1 1 2 39 3 9 15 982
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents 0 0 0 45 4 9 16 384
The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker 1 2 2 60 3 17 33 226
The changing relationship between income and crime victimization 0 0 3 541 8 28 41 2,865
The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools 0 0 1 336 1 6 14 1,122
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant 4 4 6 279 6 18 38 1,356
Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not 2 4 9 1,040 17 58 128 4,244
Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School 0 0 1 391 2 23 62 1,885
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime 0 1 15 1,715 4 32 93 5,938
Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply 0 0 2 164 1 8 14 581
Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House 2 2 4 702 6 23 40 2,423
Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation 1 1 3 84 2 13 31 2,384
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 2 0 7 10 43
Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field 0 0 0 179 0 9 15 536
Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments 0 3 8 167 3 14 36 838
What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? 0 0 0 35 4 12 15 255
What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World? 1 2 6 128 8 17 50 1,770
What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes 0 0 0 179 7 11 17 601
What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments 0 0 2 76 0 6 13 470
What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers 0 0 0 20 0 7 9 77
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System 1 2 2 364 2 8 11 1,265
Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? 0 0 0 0 3 21 34 2,038
Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets? 0 0 0 219 5 14 34 887
Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling 0 0 7 422 1 10 38 1,674
Total Journal Articles 21 51 208 24,353 259 1,086 2,248 135,597


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Microeconomics 0 0 0 8 3 14 45 1,031
Total Books 0 0 0 8 3 14 45 1,031


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment 2 4 10 943 6 17 33 3,920
The Determinants of Juvenile Crime 0 0 2 295 2 5 20 1,078
Total Chapters 2 4 12 1,238 8 22 53 4,998


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