Donohue, J.J. and Justin Wolfers (2005), “Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in
the Death Penalty Debate”, Stanford Law
Review 58:791-846.
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Stata Data
Sets and Do Files:
·
National time series of execution and homicide
rates in the U.S.
- Stata 9 data, Figure 1 do file
·
Figure 2: National time series of homicide rates
in
- Excel
spreadsheet and Figure 2
·
Homicide rates by state, 1960-2000 and coding of
death penalty statutes
- Stata 9 data, Table 1 do file, Figure 3 do file
- Includes attempt to replicate Dezbakhsh
and Shepherd (2006) Tables 5 and 6
·
State-level homicide and execution data plus
controls, 1934-2000
- Stata 9 data, Table 2 do file, Table 3 do file, Figure 4 do file,
Table 5 do file, Figure 8 do file
- Includes attempt to replicate Dezbakhsh
and Shepherd (2006) Table 8
- Table 4 do file
- Includes replication of Katz, Levitt
and Shustorovich (2003) Table 2
·
State-level homicide and execution data plus
controls, 1977-1997
- Data are available from Naci Mocan
- Table 6 do file
- Includes replication of Mocan
and Gittings (2003) Table 2
·
Monthly homicide data in
- Stata 9 data, Figure 5 do file
- Includes replication and re-analysis of Cloninger and Marchesini (2005)
·
Monthly homicide data in
- Stata
9 data, Figure
6 do file
- Includes replication and re-analysis of Cloninger
and Marchesini (2001)
·
County-level homicide and execution data plus
controls, 1977-1996
- Stata 9 data, Table 7 do file, Table 8 do file, Table 9 do file, Figure 7 do file
- Includes replication and re-analysis of Dezbakhsh, Rubin and Shepherd (2003)
·
Meta-analysis of published results
- Stata 9 data, Figure 9 do file,
Figure 10 do file
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