Empirical Publications:
Public Radio Commentary for Marketplace (with Barry Nalebuff):
Now, the customer's always managed (Oct. 8, 2007) (Audio)
End Tipping? (Oct. 5, 2005) (Real Audio)
Why Not? A Bi-Monthly Column: in Forbes (with Barry Nalebuff). A column of ideas to improve business, government and everyday life:
Experiment 103 (September 03, 2007).
For the Love of the Game 54 (March 12, 2007)
Mortgage Your Retirement 150 (Nov. 14, 2005) (excel data)
Race, Tips and Economics 136 (Nov. 1, 2004)
An Educated Consumer 95 (June 09, 2003)
Race Effects on eBay, working paper (2011) (with Mahzarin Banaji and Christine Jolls).
The $500 Diet: Weight Loss for People Who Are Committed to Change (Kindle Singles, 2011). Read an Excerpt. Free iTunes Audio Download.
Testing for Discrimination and the Problem of “Included Variable Bias,” working paper (2010).
Diversification Across Time (working paper 2010) (with Barry Nalebuff) (Data Files).
Randomizing Law, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2011) (with Michael Abramowicz & Yair Listokin).
Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody and Marvell, 6 Econ. J. Watch 35 (2009) (with John Donohue).
More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006, 6 Econ. J. Watch 218 (2009) (with John Donohue).
Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage (working paper, July 16, 2009) (with Sophie Raseman & Alice Shih).
Lifecyle Investing: A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio (Basic Books, 2010) (with Barry Nalebuff).
Visit the Book website (watch videos, download data and financial calculators)
The LAPD and Racial Profiling, LOS ANGELES TIMES (Oct. 23, 2008).
A Study of Racially Disparate Outcomes in the Los Angeles Police Department, prepared for the ACLU of Southern California, available at www.aclu-sc.org (October 2008) (with Jonathan Borowsky). Web Appendix (Stata data and do files).
Randomizing Law, working paper (October 2008) (with Yair Listokin).
Options and Epidemics, DAEDALUS 118 (Spring 2008).
Number Crunching the 2008 Election, Tierney Lab, New York Times (Jan. 9, 2008).
Mining Unconscious Wisdom, Harvard Business Rerview (March 1, 2008).
Give Freakonomics a Chance, The Economists' Voice: Vol. 4 : Iss. 5, Article 1 (2007).
Prepare to be Super-Crunched, THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 18 (Oct. 26, 2007).
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart (Bantam 2007). Buy a copy.
How Computers Routed the Experts, Financial Times (August 31, 2007).
Seeing Significance: Is the 95% Probability Range Easier to Perceive?, 20 CHANCE 11 (Winter 2007) (with Antonia Ayres-Brown & Henry Ayres-Brown).
Market Power and Inequality: A Competitive Conduct Standard for Assessing When Disparate Impacts are Justified, 95 California Law Review 669 (2007).
Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter and Gratz, 85 Texas Law Review 517 (2006) (with Sydney Foster).
Mark(et)ing Nondiscrimination: Privatizing ENDA with a Certification Mark, 104 Michigan Law Review 1639 (2006) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown) (excel GAO analysis), featured in New York Times Sunday Magazine The Year in Ideas (Dec. 11, 2005).
Does Affirmative Action Reduce the Number of Black Lawyers?, 57 Stanford Law Review 1807 (2005) (with Richard Brooks). Web Appendix (zipped folder including STATA data, do and log files)
To Insure Prejudice: Racial Disparities in Taxicab Tipping, 114 Yale Law Journal 1613 (2005) (with Fred Vars and Nasser Zakariya). STATA dataset. STATA do file.
A Separate Crime of Reckless Sex, 72 University of Chicago Law Review 599 (2005) (with Katharine Baker).(stata do file) (stata log file) (stata data file) -- featured in New York Times Sunday Magazine The Year in Ideas (Dec. 12, 2004).
Discrimination in Consummated Car Purchases, in Handbook on Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities 137 (Springer 2005).
Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (University of Chicago Press, 2005). (STATA dataset) (STATA do file).
Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, 55 Stanford Law Review 1193 (2003) (with John J. Donohue III) (Stata datasets and do files)
The Latest Misfires in Support of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, 55 Stanford Law Review 1371 (2003) (with John J. Donohue III) (Stata do files)
Pervasive Prejudice?: Non-Traditional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination (University of Chicago Press 2001). Buy a copy.
Determinants of Citations to Articles in Elite Law Review, 29 Journal of Legal Studies 427 (2000) (with Fredrick E.Vars).
Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Laws: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards of Proff and Public Policy, 1 American Law and Economics Review 436 (1999) (with John J. Donohue III).
Measuring the Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack, 113 Quarterly Journal of Economics 43 (1998) (with Steven D. Levitt).Pursuing Deficit Reduction Through Diversity: How Affirmative Action at the FCC Increased Auction Competition, 48 Stanford Law Review 761 (1996) (with Peter Cramton).
Further Evidence of Discrimination in New Car Negotiations and Estimates of Its Cause, 94 Michigan Law Review 109 (1995). [Zipped Wordperfect File]
Aid Diversity, and the Treasury, New York Times F13 (May 21, 1995) (with Peter Cramton).
HLA Matching in Renal Transplantation, 332 The New England Journal of Medicine 752 (1995) (with Robert Gaston and Mark Deierhoi).
Race and Gender Discrimination in Negotiation For the Purchase of a New Car, 84 American Economic Review 304 (1995) (with Peter Siegelman).
A Market Test for Race Discrimination in Bail Setting, 46 Stanford Law Review 987 (1994) (with Joel Waldfogel).
Racial Equity in Renal Transplantation: The Disparate Impact of HLA-Based Allocation, 270 Journal of American Medical Association 1352 (1993) (with Robert Gaston, Laura Dooley and Arnold Diethelm). Response to letters-to-the-editors, 271 Journal of American Medical Association 269 (1994).
Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation, 46 Vanderbilt Law Review 805 (1993) (with Laura Dooley and Robert Gaston).
Fair Driving: Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations, 104 Harvard Law Review 817 (1991).
Determinants of Airline Carrier Conduct, 8 International Review of Law & Economics, 187 (1988).ETS Regression (excel file).
