NBER Papers in JEL Code K4: Law and Economics - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior

2022
w29922 E. Jason Baron
Max Gross

Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
w29861 E. Jason Baron
Brian Jacob
Joseph P. Ryan

Pretrial Juvenile Detention
w29855 E. Jason Baron
Joshua M. Hyman
Brittany N. Vasquez

Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime
w29836 Michael T. Cassidy
Janet Currie

The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City's Universal Access Program
w29800 Manasi Deshpande
Michael G. Mueller-Smith

Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed From SSI
w29692 Christopher Blattman
Gustavo Duncan
Benjamin Lessing
Santiago Tobon

State-building on the Margin: An Urban Experiment in Medellín
2021
w29624 Lauren Cohen
Bo Li

The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement
w29528 Timothy J. Moore
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Causes and Consequences of Illicit Drug Epidemics
w29491 Paul J. Eliason
Riley J. League
Jetson Leder-Luis
Ryan C. McDevitt
James W. Roberts

Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
w29429 Amalia R. Miller
Carmit Segal
Melissa K. Spencer

Effects of COVID-19 Shutdowns on Domestic Violence in US Cities
w29272 Hanming Fang
Ming Li

Red Scare? A Study of Ethnic Prejudice in the Prosecutions under the Economic Espionage Act
w29243 Bocar Ba
Patrick Bayer
Nayoung Rim
Roman Rivera
Modibo Sidibé

Police Officer Assignment and Neighborhood Crime
w29150 Yotam Shem-Tov
Steven Raphael
Alissa Skog

Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism? Evidence From the Make-it-Right Program
w29056 Orazio Attanasio
Lina Cardona Sosa
Carlos Medina
Costas Meghir
Christian Manuel Posso-Suárez

Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
w29053 Patrick M. Kline
Evan K. Rose
Christopher R. Walters

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
w29019 Suat Çubukçu
Nusret M. Sahin
Erdal Tekin
Volkan Topalli

Body-Worn Cameras and Adjudication of Citizen Complaints of Police Misconduct
w28894 Alma Cohen
Zvika Neeman
Florian Auferoth

Judging Under Public Pressure
w28848 Timothy J. Moore
Kevin T. Schnepel

Opioid Use, Health and Crime: Insights from a Rapid Reduction in Heroin Supply
w28794 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Chicheng Ma
Yuchen Xu

The Legal Origins of Financial Development: Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
w28789 Jesse Kalinowski
Matthew B. Ross
Stephen L. Ross

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling
w28763 Toshio Ferrazares
Joseph J. Sabia
D. Mark Anderson

Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired?
w28718 Catherine Balfe
Patrick Button
Mary Penn
David Schwegman

Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies
w28705 Sara Heller
When Scale and Replication Work: Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments
w28686 Brian G. Knight
Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon
Ana Tribin

Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown
w28647 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees

The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana
w28622 Morgan C. Williams Jr.
Nathan Weil
Elizabeth A. Rasich
Jens Ludwig
Hye Chang
Sophia Egrari

Body-Worn Cameras in Policing: Benefits and Costs
w28610 Andres Gonzalez-Lira
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation when Agents Learn and Adapt
w28600 Amanda Y. Agan
Jennifer L. Doleac
Anna Harvey

Misdemeanor Prosecution
w28572 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
w28560 A. James O'Malley
Thomas A. Bubolz
Jonathan S. Skinner

The Diffusion of Health Care Fraud: A Network Analysis
w28496 James A. Brander
Barbara J. Spencer

Intellectual Property Infringement by Foreign Firms: Import Protection through the ITC or Court
w28475 Ioana Marinescu
Yue Qiu
Aaron Sojourner

Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
w28458 Christopher Blattman
Gustavo Duncan
Benjamin Lessing
Santiago Tobón

Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
w28405 Howard Bodenhorn
Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs
w28330 Caitlin Carroll
David M. Cutler
Anupam Jena

How do Physicians Respond to Malpractice Allegations? Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments
2020
w28299 Zach Y. Brown
Eduardo Montero
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
w28262 Seth Garz
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
Rafe Mazer
Caitlin Sanford
Jonathan Zinman

Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives
w28235 Marcelo L. Bergolo
Martin Leites
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Matias Strehl

What Makes a Tax Evader?
w28222 David Arnold
Will S. Dobbie
Peter Hull

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Algorithms
w28209 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli

Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
w28202 Aaron Chalfin
Benjamin Hansen
Emily K. Weisburst
Morgan C. Williams
Jr.

Police Force Size and Civilian Race
w28173 Calvin Bryan
Benjamin Hansen
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

Do State Tobacco 21 Laws Work?
w28122 Aparna Soni
Erdal Tekin

How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
w28068 Amalia R. Miller
Carmit Segal
Melissa K. Spencer

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
w28025 Elliott Ash
W. Bentley MacLeod

Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts
w27900 David H. Howard
Ian McCarthy

Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care
w27846 Lisa Cameron
Jennifer Seager
Manisha Shah

Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
w27802 Ivan A. Canay
Magne Mogstad
Jack Mountjoy

On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making
w27761 Benjamin Feigenberg
Conrad Miller

Racial Disparities in Motor Vehicle Searches Cannot Be Justified by Efficiency
w27713 Ozkan Eren
Naci H. Mocan

Judge Peer Effects in the Courthouse
w27678 Michael Callen
Saad Gulzar
Syed Ali Hasanain
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Arman B. Rezaee

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
w27667 Lindsey Rose Bullinger
Jillian B. Carr
Analisa Packham

COVID-19 and Crime: Effects of Stay-at-Home Orders on Domestic Violence
w27649 Anthony Koschmann
Yi Qian

Latent Estimation of Piracy Quality and its Effect on Revenues and Distribution: The Case of Motion Pictures
w27620 Brian G. Knight
Ana Tribin

Immigration and Violent Crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border
w27619 Monica Deza
Johanna Catherine Maclean
Keisha T. Solomon

Local Access to Mental Healthcare and Crime
w27320 John M. Barrios
Efraim Benmelech
Yael V. Hochberg
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Civic Capital and Social Distancing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
w27240 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Persistent Effects of Violent Media Content
w27188 Erica Bosio
Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Andrei Shleifer

Public Procurement in Law and Practice
w26999 David Arnold
Will S. Dobbie
Peter Hull

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions
w26980 Andy Yuan
Price V. Fishback

Rising Burdens of Proofs and The Grand Bargain of Workers' Compensation Laws
w26969 Jeffrey Clemens
Michael R. Strain

Understanding "Wage Theft": Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
w26861 Patrick M. Kline
Christopher R. Walters

Reasonable Doubt: Experimental Detection of Job-Level Employment Discrimination
w26812 Casey B. Mulligan
Prices and Federal Policies in Opioid Markets
w26780 D. Mark Anderson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia

Cigarette Taxes and Teen Marijuana Use
w26774 Mark Hoekstra
CarlyWill Sloan

Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls
2019
w26438 Steven F. Lehrer
Louis Pierre Lepage

How Do NYPD Officers Respond to Terror Threats?
w26400 Kevin Lang
Kaiwen Leong
Huailu Li
Haibo Xu

Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
w26366 Nava Ashraf
Alexia Delfino
Edward L. Glaeser

Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship
w26313 Gaurav Khanna
Carlos Medina
Anant Nyshadham
Christian Posso
Jorge A. Tamayo

Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia
w26224 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Daniel Keniston
Nina Singh

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India
w26206 Mark Hoekstra
Vijetha Koppa

Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes
w26203 Gaurav Khanna
Carlos Medina
Anant Nyshadham
Jorge A. Tamayo

Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
w26111 Analisa Packham
Are Syringe Exchange Programs Helpful or Harmful? New Evidence in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic
w26083 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Deterrence and the Adjustment of Sentences During Imprisonment
w26051 Aaron Chalfin
Benjamin Hansen
Rachel Ryley

The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Crime Victimization
w26024 Randi Hjalmarsson
Andreea Mitrut
Cristian Pop-Eleches

The Impact of Abortion on Crime and Crime-Related Behavior
w25863 John J. Donohue
Steven D. Levitt

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades
w25798 Aaron Chalfin
Benjamin Hansen
Jason Lerner
Lucie Parker

Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City
w25730 Stephen B. Billings
Mark Hoekstra

Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers
w25716 Christian Dippel
Michael Poyker

How Common are Electoral Cycles in Criminal Sentencing?
w25715 Christian Dippel
Michael Poyker

Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?
w25657 Sarah Tahamont
Zubin Jelveh
Aaron Chalfin
Shi Yan
Benjamin Hansen

Administrative Data Linking and Statistical Power Problems in Randomized Experiments
w25569 Courtney Coile
Mark Duggan

When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men
w25555 Jenny Williams
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Rosanna Smart

De Facto or De Jure? Ethnic Differences in Quit Responses to Legal Protections of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
2018
w25355 Samantha Bielen
Wim Marneffe
Naci H. Mocan

Racial Bias and In-group Bias in Judicial Decisions: Evidence from Virtual Reality Courtrooms
w25209 D. Mark Anderson
Joseph J. Sabia
Erdal Tekin

Child Access Prevention Laws and Juvenile Firearm-Related Homicides
w25137 Joyce Sadka
Enrique Seira
Christopher Woodruff

Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labor Courts
w25116 Amanda Y. Agan
Michael D. Makowsky

The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
w25013 Mark Hoekstra
Brittany Street

The Effect of Own-Gender Juries on Conviction Rates
w24947 Jill Horwitz
Corey S. Davis
Lynn S. McClelland
Rebecca S. Fordon
Ellen Meara

The Problem of Data Quality in Analyses of Opioid Regulation: The Case of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
w24878 Manudeep Bhuller
Gordon B. Dahl
Katrine V. Løken
Magne Mogstad

Incarceration Spillovers in Criminal and Family Networks
w24852 Jason M. Lindo
Dave E. Marcotte
Jane E. Palmer
Isaac D. Swensen

Any Press is Good Press? The Unanticipated Effects of Title IX Investigations on University Outcomes
w24798 Roland Bénabou
Armin Falk
Jean Tirole

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
w24726 Benjamin Feigenberg
Conrad Miller

Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts
w24703 Steven Shavell
The Rationale for Motions in the Design of Adjudication
w24611 Daron Acemoglu
Ali Cheema
Asim I. Khwaja
James A. Robinson

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
w24542 Lauren H. Cohen
Umit G. Gurun

Buying the Verdict
w24464 Hope Corman
Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman

Age Gradient in Female Crime: Welfare Reform as a Turning Point
w24417 Benjamin Hansen
Keaton S. Miller
Caroline Weber

Early Evidence on Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Traffic Fatalities
w24396 Naci H. Mocan
Samantha Bielen
Wim Marneffe

Quality of Judicial Institutions, Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Dishonesty
w24331 Kenneth R. Ahern
The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
w24297 Kenneth R. Ahern
Do Proxies for Informed Trading Measure Informed Trading? Evidence from Illegal Insider Trades
w24227 Manudeep Bhuller
Gordon B. Dahl
Katrine V. Løken
Magne Mogstad

Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
w24202 Bocar Ba
Jeffrey Grogger

The Introduction of Tasers and Police Use of Force: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department
w24186 Will Dobbie
Hans Grönqvist
Susan Niknami
Mårten Palme
Mikael Priks

The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
2017
w24115 Daron Acemoglu
Giuseppe De Feo
Giacomo De Luca

Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
w24083 Christian Leuz
Steffen Meyer
Maximilian Muhn
Eugene Soltes
Andreas Hackethal

Who Falls Prey to the Wolf of Wall Street? Investor Participation in Market Manipulation
w24061 Javier Cano-Urbina
Lance Lochner

The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime
w23941 Christopher Blattman
Donald Green
Daniel Ortega
Santiago Tobón

Place-Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime
w23911 Tomás Rau
Miguel Sarzosa
Sergio S. Urzúa

The Children of the Missed Pill
w23887 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Regulation with Exemptions
w23873 Shawn Kantor
Carl Kitchens
Steven Pawlowski

Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and Police Incentives: Evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
w23815 Lesley Chiou
Catherine Tucker

Search Engines and Data Retention: Implications for Privacy and Antitrust
w23762 Benjamin Hansen
Keaton Miller
Caroline Weber

Federalism, Partial Prohibition, and Cross-Border Sales: Evidence from Recreational Marijuana
w23697 Rafael Di Tella
Lucia Freira
Ramiro H. Gálvez
Ernesto Schargrodsky
Diego Shalom
Mariano Sigman

Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events
w23632 Benjamin Hansen
Keaton Miller
Caroline Weber

Getting into the Weeds of Tax Invariance
w23631 Marcelo L. Bérgolo
Rodrigo Ceni
Guillermo Cruces
Matias Giaccobasso
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
w23573 Ozkan Eren
Naci Mocan

Juvenile Punishment, High School Graduation and Adult Crime: Evidence from Idiosyncratic Judge Harshness
w23510 John J. Donohue
Abhay Aneja
Kyle D. Weber

Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis
w23443 Jonathan M.V. Davis
Sara B. Heller

Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs
w23436 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Paul N. Riskind

Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole, and Probation
w23400 Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Rodrigo R. Soares
Gabriel Ulyssea

Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
w23364 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Multistage Adjudication
w23303 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Subrogation and the Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered
w23214 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Paola Salardi

Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
w23079 Kristin F. Butcher
Kyung H. Park
Anne Morrison Piehl

Comparing Apples to Oranges: Differences in Women's and Men's Incarceration and Sentencing Outcomes
w23054 Hope Corman
Dhaval Dave
Ariel Kalil
Nancy E. Reichman

Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Youth Crime
w23031 Abby Alpert
David Powell
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Supply-Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Introduction of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
w23026 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Prison Work Programs in a Model of Deterrence
2016
w22980 Howard Bodenhorn
Blind Tigers and Red-Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late-Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
w22975 Rafael Di Tella
Julio J. Rotemberg

Populism and the Return of the "Paranoid Style": Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal
w22934 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra
Alejandro Luis Lagomarsino

Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation
w22797 Patrick Bayer
Kerwin Kofi Charles

Divergent Paths: Structural Change, Economic Rank, and the Evolution of Black-White Earnings Differences, 1940-2014
w22712 Alberto Galasso
Hong Luo

Tort Reform and Innovation
w22648 Manudeep Bhuller
Gordon B. Dahl
Katrine V. Løken
Magne Mogstad

Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment
w22617 Daron Acemoglu
Leopoldo Fergusson
James A. Robinson
Dario Romero
Juan F. Vargas

The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives
w22611 Ozkan Eren
Naci Mocan

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles
w22610 Samuel R. Bondurant
Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen

Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
w22568 Benjamin Hansen
Glen R. Waddell

Legal Access to Alcohol and Criminality
w22511 Will Dobbie
Jacob Goldin
Crystal Yang

The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges
w22499 Satadru Das
Naci Mocan

Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
w22469 Jennifer L. Doleac
Benjamin Hansen

Does "Ban the Box" Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers? Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories are Hidden
w22443 Eric Avis
Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan

Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians
w22314 Solomon Hsiang
Nitin Sekar

Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data
w22244 Gaétan de Rassenfosse
William E. Griffiths
Adam B. Jaffe
Elizabeth Webster

Low-quality Patents in the Eye of the Beholder: Evidence from Multiple Examiners
w22203 S. Nageeb Ali
Roland Bénabou

Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
w22190 Efraim Benmelech
Esteban F. Klor

What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to ISIS?
w22166 Sebastian Galiani
Ivan Lopez Cruz
Gustavo Torrens

Stirring Up a Hornets' Nest: Geographic Distribution of Crime
w22093 Alberto Alesina
Salvatore Piccolo
Paolo Pinotti

Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics
w22071 Elliott Ash
W. Bentley MacLeod

Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts
w22003 Briggs Depew
Ozkan Eren
Naci Mocan

Judges, Juveniles and In-group Bias
w21960 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
2015
w21828 Jason M. Lindo
Peter M. Siminski
Isaac D. Swensen

College Party Culture and Sexual Assault
w21787 Evan Herrnstadt
Erich Muehlegger

Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata
w21769 Alberto Galasso
Mark Schankerman

Patent Rights, Innovation and Firm Exit
w21701 Charles F. Manski
John V. Pepper

How Do Right-To-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping With Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions
w21628 Steven D. Levitt
Ming-Jen Lin

Catching Cheating Students
w21571 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan

Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes: The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program
w21447 Christopher Blattman
Julian C. Jamison
Tricia Koroknay-Palicz
Katherine Rodrigues
Margaret Sheridan

Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
w21360 Stefano DellaVigna
Eliana La Ferrara

Economic and Social Impacts of the Media
w21264 Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Ugo Troiano

Shaming Tax Delinquents
w21204 Christopher Blattman
Julian C. Jamison
Margaret Sheridan

Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia
w21178 Sara B. Heller
Anuj K. Shah
Jonathan Guryan
Jens Ludwig
Sendhil Mullainathan
Harold A. Pollack

Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago
w21171 Jason M. Lindo
María Padilla-Romo

Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War
w21145 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making
w21072 David Powell
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Erin Taylor

How Increasing Medical Access to Opioids Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic: Evidence from Medicare Part D
w21055 Seth Gershenson
Erdal Tekin

The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
w20967 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions
w20945 B. Zorina Khan
'To Have and Have Not': Are Rich Litigious Plaintiffs Favored in Court?
2014
w20747 Steven Shavell
A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation
w20537 Hefei Wen
Jason M. Hockenberry
Janet R. Cummings

The Effect of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Use on Crime: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions and Health Insurance Parity Mandates
w20475 Sebastian Edwards
Alvaro Garcia Marin

Constitutional Rights and Education: An International Comparative Study
w20461 Alessandra Casella
Sébastien Turban
Gregory J. Wawro

Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
w20366 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents
w20347 Christopher A. Parsons
Johan Sulaeman
Sheridan Titman

The Geography of Financial Misconduct
w20332 D. Mark Anderson
Benjamin Hansen
Daniel I. Rees

Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
w20281 Scott Cunningham
Manisha Shah

Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health
w20243 Benjamin Hansen
Punishment and Deterrence: Evidence from Drunk Driving
w20067 Nicolás Ajzenman
Sebastian Galiani
Enrique Seira

On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides
w19996 Richard Wright
Erdal Tekin
Volkan Topalli
Chandler McClellan
Timothy Dickinson
Richard Rosenfeld

Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
w19873 J.J. Prescott
Kathryn E. Spier
Albert Yoon

Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements
2013
w19769 Resul Cesur
Naci H. Mocan

Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
w19634 Brett Danaher
Samita Dhanasobhon
Michael D. Smith
Rahul Telang

Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age: Economics and Methodology
w19302 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
David Powell
Paul Heaton
Eric L. Sevigny

Assessing the Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Marijuana and Alcohol Use: The Devil is in the Details
w19266 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Ethan Kapstein
Erin Troland

Predation, Taxation, Investment and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
w19102 Anna Aizer
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges
w19083 Carolyn M. Moehling
Anne Morrison Piehl

Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930
w19014 Sara Heller
Harold A. Pollack
Roseanna Ander
Jens Ludwig

Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment
w18994 Jason M. Lindo
Jessamyn Schaller
Benjamin Hansen

Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Maltreatment
w18913 Keith Marzilli Ericson
Judd B. Kessler

The Articulation Effect of Government Policy: Health Insurance Mandates Versus Taxes
w18887 Hope Corman
Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Crime
w18815 Aaron Chalfin
Justin McCrary

The Effect of Police on Crime: New Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1960-2010
w18803 Decio Coviello
Nicola Persico

An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in NYPD's Stop and Frisk Program
w18791 Philip J. Cook
Songman Kang

Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: New Evidence on the Dropout-Crime Nexus
w18784 Yi Qian
Qiang Gong
Yuxin Chen

Untangling Searchable and Experiential Quality Responses to Counterfeits
w18674 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Jacob N. Shapiro
Erin Troland

Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones
2012
w18656 D. Mark Anderson
Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin

Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior
w18594 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Costly Litigation and Optimal Damages
w18518 Nancy Nicosia
John M. MacDonald
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California's Proposition 36
w18375 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Ethan Kapstein
Erin Troland

Predation, Taxation, Investment, and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
w18355 Claire S.H. Lim
James M. Snyder
Jr.

Elections and the Quality of Public Officials: Evidence from U.S. State Courts
w18239 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence
w18187 Chandler B. McClellan
Erdal Tekin

Stand Your Ground Laws, Homicides, and Injuries
w18171 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Srikanth Kadiyala
Priscillia Hunt
Alessandro Malchiodi

An Alternative Framework for Empirically Measuring the Size of Counterfeit Markets
w18069 Patrick Bayer
Marcus D. Casey
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan

Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market
w17981 Yan Leung Cheung
P. Raghavendra Rau
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