Articles

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

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

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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)
 

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

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

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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)
 

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

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

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

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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...
 

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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...
 

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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
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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)
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contributions to Books

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Antidiscrimination Law, Handbook of Law and Economics (2007)
This essay provides an overview of the central theoretical law and economics insights and empirical...
 

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

Popular Press

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

Working Papers

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The Economics of Labor and Employment Law (2006)
 

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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...

 

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USES AND ABUSES OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE (with Justin J. Wolfers), American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings (2006)
 

Other

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CONNECTICUT, 1973-2007: A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION FROM 4600 MURDERS TO ONE EXECUTION (2008)
 

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More COPS (with Jens Ludwig) (2007)
 

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Security, Democracy and Restraint (2006)