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Gun Control

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 04 Dec 2001

Philip J. Cook, Anthony A. Braga and Mark H. Moore

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Kennedy School of Government - Hauser Center

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Gun Control

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (1998).

Posted: 02 Jul 1997

Philip J. Cook and Jim Leitzel

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Chicago

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School Crime Control and Prevention

Number of pages: 150 Posted: 26 Mar 2009

Philip J. Cook, Denise C. Gottfredson and Chongmin Na

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, University of Maryland - College Park and University of Maryland - College Park

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Lessons from the Economics of Crime

'Lessons from the Economics of Crime' in Lessons from the Economics of Crime, edited by P.J. Cook, S.J. Machin, O. Marie, and G. Mastrobuoni, MIT Press, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 31 Jul 2012

Philip J. Cook, Stephen J. Machin, Olivier Marie and Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), Maastricht University and University of Turin - Collegio Carlo Alberto

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Principles for Effective Gun Control

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Nov 2004

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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The Net Effect of the Business Cycle on Crime and Violence

Duke Department of Economics Research Paper

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Aug 2010

Shawn D. Bushway, Philip J. Cook and Matthew Phillips

University at Albany, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Miami

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Gun Control after Heller: Threats and Sideshows from a Social Welfare Perspective

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 454, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 259

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Feb 2009

Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and Adam M. Samaha

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and New York University School of Law

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A Primer on Kidney Transplantation: Anatomy of the Shortage

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 77, No. 3, 2014, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS14-3

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2015

Philip J. Cook and Kimberly D. Krawiec

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Virginia, School of Law

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Underground Gun Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w11737

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2022

Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and Anthony A. Braga

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Columbia University - Department of Sociology and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Sibling Spillovers: Having an Academically Successful Older Sibling May be More Important for Children in Disadvantaged Families

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 25 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2022

Emma Zang, Poh Lin Tan and Philip J. Cook

Yale University - Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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Elusive Facts About Guns Violence: Where Good Surveys Go Bad

Michael D Maltz and Stephen K. Rice (ed.) Envisioning Criminology: A Handbook of Emerging Research Strategies for Studying Crime and Justice (Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 May 2014 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2014

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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The Social Costs of Gun Ownership

NBER Working Paper No. w10736

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 04 May 2022

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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Distinguishing Spurious and Real Peer Effects: Evidence from Artificial Societies, Small-Group Experiments, and Real Schoolyards

Review of Law & Economics, Forthcoming , UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1118436

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Apr 2008

Robert MacCoun, Philip J. Cook, Clara Muschkin and Jacob L. Vigdor

Stanford Law School, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University - Center for Child and Family Policy and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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The Demand for Lottery Products

NBER Working Paper No. w2928

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2022

Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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If We Allow Football Players and Boxers to Be Paid for Entertaining the Public, Why Don't We Allow Kidney Donors to Be Paid for Saving Lives?

Forthcoming, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 81, No. 3, 2018, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-7

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Dec 2017

Philip J. Cook and Kimberly D. Krawiec

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Virginia, School of Law

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Implicit Taxation in Lottery Finance

NBER Working Paper No. w2246

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2021

Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Jun 2005

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

NBER Working Paper No. w11390

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2022

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

NBER Working Paper No. w19862

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022

Philip J. Cook, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland G. Fryer, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Susan E. Mayer, Harold A. Pollack and Laurence Steinberg

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, University of California, Irvine, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy (HDSP) Program, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Irving Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago - School of Social Service Administration and Temple University - Department of Psychology

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The "Gambler's Fallacy" in Lottery Play

NBER Working Paper No. w3769

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2022

Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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Alcohol

NBER Working Paper No. w6905

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 01 Feb 1999 Last Revised: 16 May 2021

Philip J. Cook and Michael J. Moore

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

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Should Sixth Grade Be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior

NBER Working Paper No. w12471

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022

Philip J. Cook, Robert MacCoun, Clara Muschkin and Jacob L. Vigdor

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Stanford Law School, Duke University - Center for Child and Family Policy and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Kidney Donation and the Consent of the Poor

Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Vol. 66, 2020, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-61

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 30 Sep 2020

Philip J. Cook and Kimberly D. Krawiec

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Virginia, School of Law

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Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good for Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates

NBER Working Paper No. w11138

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2021

Philip J. Cook, Jan Ostermann and Frank A. Sloan

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University - Center for Health Policy, Law and Management and Duke University - Center for Health Policy, Law and Management

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Assessing Urban Crime and its Control: An Overview

NBER Working Paper No. w13781

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2022

Philip J. Cook

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data

NBER Working Paper No. w7166

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Aug 1999 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2021

Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook

Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs Inducement

NBER Working Paper No. w8926

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 May 2002 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2021

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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If We Pay Football Players, Why Not Kidney Donors?

Regulation, Vol. 41, No. 1, Spring 2018, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-30

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Mar 2018

Philip J. Cook and Kimberly D. Krawiec

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Virginia, School of Law

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The Peculiar Scale Economies of Lotto

NBER Working Paper No. w3766

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2021

Philip J. Cook and Charles T. Clotfelter

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

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Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-30

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 11 Mar 2021

Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Monica Bhatt, Philip J. Cook, Jonathan M. V. Davis, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland G. Fryer, Susan Mayer, Harold A. Pollack and Laurence Steinberg

Northwestern University, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), University of Chicago, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, University of California, Irvine, Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago, University of Chicago - School of Social Service Administration and Temple University - Department of Psychology

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Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents

NBER Working Paper No. w28531

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 08 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2021

Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Monica Bhatt, Philip J. Cook, Jonathan Davis, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland G. Fryer, Susan Mayer, Harold A. Pollack and Laurence Steinberg

Northwestern University, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI), University of Chicago, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, University of California, Irvine, Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago, University of Chicago - School of Social Service Administration and Temple University - Department of Psychology

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After the Epidemic: Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w8571

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Oct 2001 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2022

Philip J. Cook and John H. Laub

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Maryland

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Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys

NBER Working Paper No. w13046

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2022

Christopher S. Carpenter and Philip J. Cook

Vanderbilt University and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus

NBER Working Paper No. w11902

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022

Philip J. Cook and Bethany L. Peters

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Rhodes College

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Economical Crime Control

NBER Working Paper No. w16513

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2021

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

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State and Local Prevalence of Firearms Ownership: Measurement, Structure, and Trends

NBER Working Paper No. w8570

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Oct 2001 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2021

Deborah Azrael, Philip J. Cook and Matthew Miller

Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Northeastern University, Dept. of Health Sciences

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Habit and Heterogeneity in the Youthful Demand for Alcohol

NBER Working Paper No. w5152

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022

Michael J. Moore and Philip J. Cook

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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The Virtuous Tax: Lifesaving and Crime-Prevention Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol-Tax Increase

NBER Working Paper No. w17709

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 31 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 23 May 2021

Philip J. Cook and Christine Durrance

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Public Policy

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The Effects of Short-Term Variation in Abortion Funding on Pregnancy Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w5843

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Sep 1999 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2021

Philip J. Cook, Allan M. Parnell, Michael J. Moore and Deanna Pagnini

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Princeton University - Office of Population Research (OPR)

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Gun Control after Heller: Litigating Against Regulation

NBER Working Paper No. w15431

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2022

Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and Adam M. Samaha

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy, Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI) and New York University School of Law

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Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation

NBER Working Paper No. w12472

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022

Philip J. Cook and Rebecca Hutchinson

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Public Safety Through Private Action: An Economic Assessment of Bids, Locks, and Citizen Cooperation

NBER Working Paper No. w15877

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2021

Philip J. Cook and John MacDonald

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Pennsylvania

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The School-Entry-Age Rule Affects Redshirting Patterns and Resulting Disparities in Achievement

NBER Working Paper No. w24492

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2021

Philip J. Cook and Songman Kang

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke University - Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: New Evidence on the Dropout-Crime Nexus

NBER Working Paper No. w18791

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 07 May 2022

Philip J. Cook and Songman Kang

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Duke University - Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Gun Markets

Annual Review of Criminology, Vol. 1, pp. 359-377, 2018

Posted: 10 Feb 2018

Philip J. Cook

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

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Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy: An Economic Analysis of the Attack on Gun Control

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 59, No. 1, (1996).

Posted: 06 Nov 1996

Philip J. Cook and Jim Leitzel

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and University of Chicago

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Weighing the Oburden of Acting Whiteo: Are There Race Differences in Attitudes Towards Education?

JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 16, No. 3, Summer 1997

Posted: 05 Sep 1996

Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy and Georgetown University - Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

Philip J. Cook

Duke University - Sanford School of Public Policy

ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy

Duke University, Dept. of Economics

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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