Abortion and Crime

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

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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...

 

Antidiscrimination Law

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

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

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

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

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

Crime

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

Death Penalty

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

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

Gun Control

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

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

Incarceration

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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)
 

Labor and Employment

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

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

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

Law and Economics

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Reply to Professors Ellickson and Stigler, Yale Law Journal (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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Posner's Third Symphony: Thinking about the Unthinkable (with Ian Ayres), Stanford Law Review (1987)
 

Law and Economics of Civil Procedure

Law and Politics

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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...

 

Law and Society

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More COPS (with Jens Ludwig) (2007)
 

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

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

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

Medical Malpractice