John J. Donohue

Stanford Law School

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 12 Aug 1999
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

NBER Working Paper No. w8004
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 12 Nov 2000 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2022
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

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The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 461
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 31 May 2014 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue and Alexandria Zhang
Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University
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Crime control, econometric methodology, right-to-carry legislation, model sensitivity

The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the Nrc Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w18294
Number of pages: 109 Posted: 18 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2023
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue and Alexandria Zhang
Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, December 2005
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Dec 2005
John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers
Stanford Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1949
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 Jan 2006
Justin Wolfers and John J. Donohue
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Stanford Law School
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execution, capital punishment, homicide, crime, death penalty

Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

NBER Working Paper No. w11982
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers
Stanford Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5493
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 May 2006
Justin Wolfers and John J. Donohue
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Stanford Law School
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Capital punishment, crime, death penalty, deterrence, execution, homicide, murder

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Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

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Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

Number of pages: 115 Posted: 29 Oct 2002
Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue
Yale University - Yale Law School and Stanford Law School
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Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. w9336
Number of pages: 106 Posted: 29 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022
Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue
Yale University - Yale Law School and Stanford Law School
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The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2011
Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue and Alexandria Zhang
Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University
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Crime control, econometric methodology, right-to-carry legislation, model sensitivity

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Discrimination in Employment

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Discrimination in Employment

Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 161
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 04 Oct 1999
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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Discrimination in Employment

Posted: 02 Aug 1998
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School

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The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 05 Aug 2003
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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Right-to-Carry (RTC) laws, crime rate, gun laws

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Some Thoughts on Law and Economics and the Theory of Second Best

Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 156
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 01 Sep 1999
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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An Empirical Evaluation of the Connecticut Death Penalty System Since 1973: Are There Unlawful Racial, Gender, and Geographic Disparities?

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 11:4, December 2014, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 464
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 24 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2014
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis

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Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 508, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-67, Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 22 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2017
John J. Donohue, Abhay Aneja and No Name
Stanford Law School, Stanford University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics
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Guns, Violent Crime, Regulation, Synthetic Controls

Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w23510
Number of pages: 126 Posted: 19 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2023
John J. Donohue, Abhay Aneja and No Name
Stanford Law School, Stanford University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics
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The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime

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The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime

Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 168
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Mar 2000
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime

NBER Working Paper No. w6784
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2022
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

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Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Mar 2003
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

NBER Working Paper No. w9532
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2022
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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The Law and Economics of Antidiscrimination Law

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The Law and Economics of Antidiscrimination Law

HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, A. M. Polinsky and Steven Shavell, eds., 2005, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 101, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 318
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Sep 2005
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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The Law and Economics of Antidiscrimination Law

NBER Working Paper No. w11631
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 29 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2022
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

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The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 29 Nov 2002
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue and Stewart J. Schwab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Stanford Law School and Cornell Law School
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Employment Protection, Wrongful Discharge, Unjust Dismissal, Employment at Will, Labor Law, Instrumental Variables

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

NBER Working Paper No. w9425
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 03 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2022
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue and Stewart J. Schwab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Stanford Law School and Cornell Law School
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The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960

PIER Working Paper No. 01-036; Stanford Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 11; and Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 198
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Jun 2000
John J. Donohue, James J. Heckman and Petra Todd
Stanford Law School, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime Over the Last Two Decades

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime Over the Last Two Decades

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-75
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 May 2019
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime Over the Last Two Decades

NBER Working Paper No. w25863
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 May 2019 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2023
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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The Latest Misfires in Support of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Apr 2003
John J. Donohue and Ian Ayres
Stanford Law School and Yale University - Yale Law School
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The Search for Truth: In Appreciation of James J. Heckman

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Jul 2001
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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Understanding the Time Path of Crime

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Understanding the Time Path of Crime

Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 158
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Sep 1999
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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Understanding the Time Path of Crime

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 88, pp. 1423-1451, Summer 1998
Posted: 14 Jul 1998
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School

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Assessing Post-ADA Employment: Some Econometric Evidence and Policy Considerations

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 358
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 13 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2012
John J. Donohue, Michael Ashley Stein, Christopher L. Griffin and Sascha Becker
Stanford Law School, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law and University of Warwick
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antidiscrimination law, employment, wages, disabled labor force, ADA

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Understanding the Reasons for and Impact of Legislatively Mandated Benefits for Selected Workers

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 May 2001
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School
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Jury Nullification in Modified Comparative Negligence Regimes

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1874466, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 419
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2012
Eli K. Best and John J. Donohue
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Stanford Law School
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torts, comparative negligence, jury nullification

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Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w16776
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 14 Feb 2011
John J. Donohue, Benjamin Ewing and David Peloquin
Stanford Law School, Queen's University - Faculty of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks

NBER Working Paper No. w3894
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 24 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
John J. Donohue and James J. Heckman
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Estimating the Effect of U.S. Concealed Carry Laws on Homicide: A Replication and Sensitivity Analysis

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Dec 2022
Matthew Bondy, Samuel Cai and John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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Guns, crime, homicide, right-to-carry, replication

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Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

NBER Working Paper No. w11987
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2022
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago
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Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960

NBER Working Paper No. w6418
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 11 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2022
John J. Donohue, James J. Heckman and Petra Todd
Stanford Law School, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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A Panel-Based Proxy for Gun Prevalence in the Us

NBER Working Paper No. w25530
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
Daniel S. A. Cerqueira, Danilo Santa Cruz Coelho, John J. Donohue, Marcelo Fernandes and Jony Arrais Pinto
Cerqueira Advocacia e Consultoria, IPEA - Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Stanford Law School, Queen Mary University of London - Economics Department and UFF - Universidade Federal Fluminense
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Why Does Right-to-Carry Cause Violent Crime to Increase?

NBER Working Paper No. w30190
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023
John J. Donohue, Samuel Cai, Matthew Bondy and Philip J. Cook
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy
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Right-to-Carry Laws, Stand-Your-Ground Laws, and Justifiable Homicides - A Jurimetric Analysis

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Jul 2012
John J. Donohue and Ivan Cesar Ribeiro
Stanford Law School and Federal University of São Paulo
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Justifiable Homicides, Right to Carry, Stand your Ground Laws, Rare Event Models

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Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 249-309, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2010
John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers
Stanford Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

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The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 24-46, 2009
Posted: 25 Aug 2009
John J. Donohue, Jeffrey Grogger and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Chicago

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Some Thoughts on Law and Economics and the Theory of the Second Best

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1998
Posted: 21 Sep 1998
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School

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Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Social Programs in the Battle Against Crime

Posted: 02 Aug 1998
John J. Donohue and Peter Siegelman
Stanford Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law

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Did Miranda Diminish Police Effectiveness?

Posted: 14 Jul 1998
John J. Donohue
Stanford Law School

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Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets

Posted: 14 Jul 1998
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt
Stanford Law School and University of Chicago

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Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960

Posted: 10 Feb 1998
John J. Donohue, James J. Heckman and Petra Todd
Stanford Law School, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics

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