John Donohue

PDF

Study Shows Scales Of Justice Askew When It Comes To Death Penalty, Courant.com (2012)

A former Yale Law School professor's long-running study now concludes that while extremely rare, the...

PDF

The Random Horror of the Death Penalty, New York Times (2012)

The Supreme Court has not banned capital punishment, as it should, but it has long...

PDF

The Impact of Right-to-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy, Am Law Econ Rev (2011)

For over a decade, there has been a spirited academic debate over the impact on...

PDF

Assessing Post-ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerations, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2011)

In this article, we offer innovative analysis and additional evidence on the relationship between the...

PDF

Assessing Post-ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerationsjels, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2011)

This article explores the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the relative...

Link

Room for Debate Forum on the More Guns, Less Crime Isssue, New York Times (2011)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/11/more-guns-less-crime

PDF

Book Review - When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) (2010)

Two of the most dramatic social phenomena of the last half century in the United...

PDF

Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder (with Justin Wolfers), American Law and Economics Review Advance Access (2009)

PDF

More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006 (with Ian Ayres), Econ Journal Watch (2009)

PDF

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing (with Jeffrey Grogger and Steven Levitt), American Law and Economics Review (2009)

PDF

Assessing the Relative Benefits of Incarceration: The Overall Change Over the Previous Decades and the Benefits on the Margin, Do Prisions Make Us Safer? The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom (2009)

PDF

Introduction to the Death Penalty Symposium (with Steven Shavell), American Law and Economics Review (2009)

PDF

Review of the Road to Abolition, NYU Press (2009)

The two most important questions about the death penalty in the United States today are...

PDF

The impact of the death penalty on murder, Criminology & Public Policy (2009)

Both history and daily crime sheets underscore a depressing capacity for human violence and inhumanity....

PDF

Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody and Marvell (with Ian Ayres), Econ Journal Watch (2009)

Link

Anti-Discrimination Law, The New Palgraave Dictionary of Economics: Second Edition (2008)

PDF

Murder in Decline in the 1990s: Why the U.S. and N.Y.C. Were Not That Special," Book Review of Frank Zimring's, Punishment and Society (2008)

Link

Understanding the 1990s Crime Drops in the U.S. and Canada, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2007)

There is much to be learned from Frank Zimring’s highly readable and penetrating examination of...

Link

Economic Models of Crime and Punishment, Social Research (2007)

PDF

Rethink the "War on Drugs", Yale Law Report (2007)

Crime is an issue that often seeps into Presidential elections in one form or another....

PDF

Rethink the War on Drugs, Yale Law Report (2007)

PDF

The Imapct of Damage Caps on Malpractice Claims: Randomization Inference with Difference-in-Differences (with Daniel E. Ho), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2007)

PDF

The Discretion of Judges and Corporate Executives: An Insider’s View of the Disney Case, Economists' Voice (2006)

The widely publicized Disney case is perhaps the most important corporate law litigation in many...

PDF

Letter: A Reply to Rubin on the Death Penalty (with Justin J. Wolfers), The Economists' Voice (2006)

Contrary to Paul Rubin's recent testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, we believe the fragility...

PDF

The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence (with Justin J. Wolfers), The Economists' Voice (2006)

John Donohue and Justin Wolfers argue that Gary Becker and Richard Posner are wrong to...

PDF

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws (with David Autor and Stewart Schwab), The Review of Economics and Statistics (2006)

Full data and programs behind the published paper are available from: http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/dautor/data/autdonschw06

PDF

USES AND ABUSES OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE (with John J. Donohue and Justin J. Wolfers), Stanford Law Review (2006)

PDF

Fighting Crime: An Economists View, The Milken Institute Review (2005)

PDF

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce (with Steven D. Levitt), Journal of Human Resources (2004)

PDF

Guns, Crime, and the Impact of State Right-to-Carry Laws, Fordham Law Review (2004)

PDF

Expert Witness Says Disney Had Cause to Fire President, NY Times (2004)

The Walt Disney Company should have fired Michael S. Ovitz because of his "substantial and...

PDF

Ovitz Performance In Disney Role Is Faulted at Trial, Wall Street Journal (2004)

Former Walt Disney Co. President Michael Ovitz's job performance and spending habits came under attack...

PDF

Disney had good reason to fire Ovitz, USA Today (2004)

GEORGETOWN, Del., Oct 21 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N) should have fired Michael Ovitz...

PDF

Shooting Down the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (2003)

PDF

The Latest Misfires in Support of the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (2003)

PDF

The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, Criminology & Public Policy (2003)

PDF

The Impact of Concealed-Carry Laws, in Jens Ludwig and Philip Cook, Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence (2003)

Thirty-three states have “shall-issue” laws that require law enforcement authorities to issue permits to carry...

Link

Can Guns, or Gun Violence, Be Controlled?, The American Prospect (2002)

PDF

Understanding the Reasons for and Impact of Legislatively Mandated Benefits for Selected Workers, Stanford Law Review (2001)

PDF

The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests (with Steven Levitt), Journal of Law and Economics (2001)

PDF

The Search for Truth: In Appreciation of James J. Heckman, Law and Social Inquiry (2001)

PDF

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime (with Steven D. Levitt), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001)

We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began...

PDF

Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Law: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards of Proof, and Public Policy (with Ian Ayres), American Law and Economics Review (1999)

PDF

Why We Should Discount the Views of Those Who Discount Discounting, Yale Law Journal (1999)

PDF

Some Thoughts on Law and Economics and the Theory of Second Best, Chicago-Kent Law Review (1998)

PDF

Understanding the Time Path of Crime, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1998)

PDF

Discrimination in Employment, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics (1998)

PDF

Allocating Resources among Prisons and Social Programs in the Battle against Crime (with Peter Siegleman), The Journal of Legal Studies (1998)

PDF

Employment Discrimination Law in Perspective: Three Concepts of Equality, Michigan Law Review (1994)

PDF

The Effects of Joint and Several Liability on Settlement Rates: Mathematical Symmetries and Meta-Issues in the Analusis of Rational Litigant Behavior, Journal of Legal Studies (1994)

PDF

Continuous versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks (with James Heckman), Journal of Economic Literature (1991)

PDF

Opting for the British Rule: Or, If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?, Harvard Law Review (1991)

PDF

Re-Evaluating Federal Civil Rights Policy (with James Heckman), Georgetown Law Journal (1991)

PDF

The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation (with Peter Siegelman), Stanford Law Review (1991)

PDF

The Effects of Fee Shifting on the Settlement Rate: Theoretical Observations on Costs, Conflicts and Contingency Fees, Law and Contemporary Problems (1991)

PDF

Studying the Iceberg From Its Tip: A Comparison of Published and Unpublished Employment Discriminatin Cases (with Peter Siegelman), Law and Society Review (1990)

PDF

Diverting the Coasean River: Incentive Schemes to Reduce Unemployment Spells, Yale Law Journal (1989)

PDF

Diverting The Coasean River: Incentive Schemes To Reduce Unemployment Spells, The Yale Law Journal (1989)

PDF

Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: An Economic Perspective, University of Chicago Law review (1989)

PDF

Reply to Professors Ellickson and Stigler, Yale Law Journal (1989)

PDF

The Law & Economics of Tort Law: The Profound Revolution, Harvard Law Review (1989)

PDF

Using Market Incentives to Promote Auto Occupant Safety, Yale Law and Policy Review (1989)

PDF

Law and Economics: The Road Not Taken, Law and Society Review (1988)

PDF

Further Thoughts on Employment Discrimination Legislation: A Reply to Judge Posner, U. Pa. L. Rev. (1987)

PDF

Posner's Third Symphony: Thinking about the Unthinkable (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (1987)

PDF

A Comparison of Male-Female Hazard Rates of Young Workers, 1968-1971, (Working Paper Yale Law School 1986) (1986)

The perception that women have higher turnover rates than men is widespread. A recent study...

PDF

Hazard Rates of Young Male and Female Workers--Recent Developments (Working Paper #51), (Working Paper Yale Law School 1986) (1986)

This paper will explore whether this tenure differential has persisted after a decade in which...

PDF

Is Title VII Efficient?, U. Pa. L. Rev. (1986)

PDF

Antidiscrimination Law, Handbook of Law and Economics (2007)

This essay provides an overview of the central theoretical law and economics insights and empirical...

PDF

The Evolution of Employment Discrimination Law in the 1990s: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation (with Peter Siegelman), Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research (2005)

PDF

Some Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice Policy, The Crime Conundrum: Essays on Criminal Justice (1007)

Link

The Knicks Boldly Go Where Companies Have Not (with Ian Ayres), The New York Times (2006)

PDF

The Economics of Labor and Employment Law (2006)

PDF

Clinton and Bush's Report Cards on Crime Reduction: The Data Show Bush Policies Are Undermining Clinton Gains, The Economists' Voice (2006)

At the Democratic Convention Clinton argued that he had put police on the street and...

PDF

More COPS (with Jens Ludwig) (2007)

Link

SelectedWorks of John Donohue

Yale University

Stanford Law School

Courses/Seminars

Links

Browse by Article Type

Articles

Study Shows Scales Of Justice Askew When It Comes To Death Penalty, Courant.com (2012)

The Random Horror of the Death Penalty, New York Times (2012)

The Impact of Right-to-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy, Am Law Econ Rev (2011)

Assessing Post-ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerations, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2011)

Assessing Post-ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerationsjels, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2011)

Room for Debate Forum on the More Guns, Less Crime Isssue, New York Times (2011)

Book Review - When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment, Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) (2010)

Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder (with Justin Wolfers), American Law and Economics Review Advance Access (2009)

More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006 (with Ian Ayres), Econ Journal Watch (2009)

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing (with Jeffrey Grogger and Steven Levitt), American Law and Economics Review (2009)

Assessing the Relative Benefits of Incarceration: The Overall Change Over the Previous Decades and the Benefits on the Margin, Do Prisions Make Us Safer? The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom (2009)

Introduction to the Death Penalty Symposium (with Steven Shavell), American Law and Economics Review (2009)

Review of the Road to Abolition, NYU Press (2009)

The impact of the death penalty on murder, Criminology & Public Policy (2009)

Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody and Marvell (with Ian Ayres), Econ Journal Watch (2009)

Anti-Discrimination Law, The New Palgraave Dictionary of Economics: Second Edition (2008)

Murder in Decline in the 1990s: Why the U.S. and N.Y.C. Were Not That Special," Book Review of Frank Zimring's, Punishment and Society (2008)

Understanding the 1990s Crime Drops in the U.S. and Canada, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2007)

Economic Models of Crime and Punishment, Social Research (2007)

Rethink the "War on Drugs", Yale Law Report (2007)

Rethink the War on Drugs, Yale Law Report (2007)

The Imapct of Damage Caps on Malpractice Claims: Randomization Inference with Difference-in-Differences (with Daniel E. Ho), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2007)

The Discretion of Judges and Corporate Executives: An Insider’s View of the Disney Case, Economists' Voice (2006)

Letter: A Reply to Rubin on the Death Penalty (with Justin J. Wolfers), The Economists' Voice (2006)

The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence (with Justin J. Wolfers), The Economists' Voice (2006)

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws (with David Autor and Stewart Schwab), The Review of Economics and Statistics (2006)

USES AND ABUSES OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE (with John J. Donohue and Justin J. Wolfers), Stanford Law Review (2006)

Fighting Crime: An Economists View, The Milken Institute Review (2005)

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce (with Steven D. Levitt), Journal of Human Resources (2004)

Guns, Crime, and the Impact of State Right-to-Carry Laws, Fordham Law Review (2004)

Expert Witness Says Disney Had Cause to Fire President, NY Times (2004)

Ovitz Performance In Disney Role Is Faulted at Trial, Wall Street Journal (2004)

Disney had good reason to fire Ovitz, USA Today (2004)

Shooting Down the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (2003)

The Latest Misfires in Support of the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (2003)

The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, Criminology & Public Policy (2003)

The Impact of Concealed-Carry Laws, in Jens Ludwig and Philip Cook, Evaluating Gun Policy: Effects on Crime and Violence (2003)

Can Guns, or Gun Violence, Be Controlled?, The American Prospect (2002)

Understanding the Reasons for and Impact of Legislatively Mandated Benefits for Selected Workers, Stanford Law Review (2001)

The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests (with Steven Levitt), Journal of Law and Economics (2001)

The Search for Truth: In Appreciation of James J. Heckman, Law and Social Inquiry (2001)

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime (with Steven D. Levitt), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001)

Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Law: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards of Proof, and Public Policy (with Ian Ayres), American Law and Economics Review (1999)

Why We Should Discount the Views of Those Who Discount Discounting, Yale Law Journal (1999)

Some Thoughts on Law and Economics and the Theory of Second Best, Chicago-Kent Law Review (1998)

Understanding the Time Path of Crime, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1998)

Discrimination in Employment, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics (1998)

Allocating Resources among Prisons and Social Programs in the Battle against Crime (with Peter Siegleman), The Journal of Legal Studies (1998)

Does Miranda Diminish Police Effectiveness?, Stanford Law Review (1998)

Some Thoughts on Affirmative Action, Washington University law Quarterly (1998)

Executive Compensation, Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance (1997)

Employment Discrimination Law in Perspective: Three Concepts of Equality, Michigan Law Review (1994)

The Effects of Joint and Several Liability on Settlement Rates: Mathematical Symmetries and Meta-Issues in the Analusis of Rational Litigant Behavior, Journal of Legal Studies (1994)

Continuous versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks (with James Heckman), Journal of Economic Literature (1991)

Opting for the British Rule: Or, If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?, Harvard Law Review (1991)

Re-Evaluating Federal Civil Rights Policy (with James Heckman), Georgetown Law Journal (1991)

The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation (with Peter Siegelman), Stanford Law Review (1991)

The Effects of Fee Shifting on the Settlement Rate: Theoretical Observations on Costs, Conflicts and Contingency Fees, Law and Contemporary Problems (1991)

Studying the Iceberg From Its Tip: A Comparison of Published and Unpublished Employment Discriminatin Cases (with Peter Siegelman), Law and Society Review (1990)

Diverting the Coasean River: Incentive Schemes to Reduce Unemployment Spells, Yale Law Journal (1989)

Diverting The Coasean River: Incentive Schemes To Reduce Unemployment Spells, The Yale Law Journal (1989)

Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: An Economic Perspective, University of Chicago Law review (1989)

Reply to Professors Ellickson and Stigler, Yale Law Journal (1989)

The Law & Economics of Tort Law: The Profound Revolution, Harvard Law Review (1989)

Using Market Incentives to Promote Auto Occupant Safety, Yale Law and Policy Review (1989)

Law and Economics: The Road Not Taken, Law and Society Review (1988)

Further Thoughts on Employment Discrimination Legislation: A Reply to Judge Posner, U. Pa. L. Rev. (1987)

Posner's Third Symphony: Thinking about the Unthinkable (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (1987)

A Comparison of Male-Female Hazard Rates of Young Workers, 1968-1971, (Working Paper Yale Law School 1986) (1986)

Hazard Rates of Young Male and Female Workers--Recent Developments (Working Paper #51), (Working Paper Yale Law School 1986) (1986)

Is Title VII Efficient?, U. Pa. L. Rev. (1986)

Contributions to Books