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0.52 David E. Olson Michael D. Maltz, Right‐to‐Carry Concealed Weapon Laws and Homicide in Large US Counties: The Effect on Weapon Types Victim Characteristics and Victim‐Offender Relationships, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.49 Ben Vollaard Joseph Hamed, Why the Police Have an Effect on Violent Crime After All: Evidence from the British Crime Survey, Journal of Law and Economics, 2012.
0.47 Hope Corman Naci Mocan, Carrots Sticks and Broken Windows, Journal of Law and Economics, 2005.
0.47 John R. Lott_ Jr.John E. Whitley, Safe‐Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths Suicides and Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.46 Jens Ludwig Jeffrey R. Kling, Is Crime Contagious?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2007.
0.45 John R. Lott_ Jr., Guns Crime and Safety: Introduction, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.45 H. Naci Mocan R. Kaj Gittings, Getting off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment, Journal of Law and Economics, 2003.
0.42 Jeffrey S. Parker, Guns Crime and Academics: Some Reflections on the Gun Control Debate, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.41 David B. Mustard, The Impact of Gun Laws on Police Deaths, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.40 H. Naci Mocan Erdal Tekin, Guns and Juvenile Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.39 Yair Listokin, Does More Crime Mean More Prisoners? An Instrumental Variables Approach, Journal of Law and Economics, 2003.
0.39 Paul Heaton, Understanding the Effects of Antiprofiling Policies, Journal of Law and Economics, 2010.
0.38 Steven Raphael Rudolf Winter‐Ebmer, Identifying the Effect of Unemployment on Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.38 Bruce L. Benson Brent D. Mast, Privately Produced General Deterrence, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.37 Carlisle E. Moody, Testing for the Effects of Concealed Weapons Laws: Specification Errors and Robustness, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.37 Jonathan Klick Alexander Tabarrok, Using Terror Alert Levels to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 2005.
0.36 John J. Donohue IIISteven D. Levitt, The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.35 Tomas J. Philipson Richard A. Posner, The Economic Epidemiology of Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 1996.
0.34 Thomas B. Marvell, The Impact of Banning Juvenile Gun Possession, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.33 Jeffrey Grogger, The Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions on Reported Violent Crime: Evidence from Los Angeles County, Journal of Law and Economics, 2002.
0.33 Rucker Johnson Steven Raphael, How Much Crime Reduction Does the Marginal Prisoner Buy?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2012.
0.32 Jeffrey A. Miron, Violence Guns and Drugs: A Cross‐Country Analysis, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.32 Masanori Hashimoto, The Minimum Wage Law and Youth Crimes: Time-Series Evidence, Journal of Law and Economics, 1987.
0.30 Christopher Carpenter, Heavy Alcohol Use and Crime: Evidence from Underage Drunk‐Driving Laws, Journal of Law and Economics, 2007.
0.29 Paul Heaton, Does Religion Really Reduce Crime?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.29 Keith R. Ihlanfeldt, Neighborhood Crime and Young Males’ Job Opportunity, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.28 Raymond A. Atkins Paul H. Rubin, Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates: Mapping Out the Consequences of the Exclusionary Rule, Journal of Law and Economics, 2003.
0.27 Joanna M. Shepherd, Police Prosecutors Criminals and Determinate Sentencing: The Truth about Truth‐in‐Sentencing Laws, Journal of Law and Economics, 2002.
0.26 Florenz Plassmann T. Nicolaus Tideman, Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crimes? Only a Count Analysis Can Say, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.26 Douglas C. Bice David D. Hemley, The Market for New Handguns: An Empirical Investigation, Journal of Law and Economics, 2002.
0.23 Paolo Buonanno Daniel Montolio Paolo Vanin, Does Social Capital Reduce Crime?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2009.
0.23 Michael Conlin Stacy Dickert‐Conlin John Pepper, The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Illicit‐Drug‐Related Crimes, Journal of Law and Economics, 2005.
0.22 Price V. Fishback Ryan S. Johnson Shawn Kantor, Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression, Journal of Law and Economics, 2010.
0.22 Jennifer Hunt, Do Teen Births Keep American Crime High?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2006.
0.22 Rucker C. Johnson Steven Raphael, The Effects of Male Incarceration Dynamics on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Infection Rates among African American Women and Men, Journal of Law and Economics, 2009.
0.21 David A. Anderson, The Aggregate Burden of Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.21 Jeffrey D. Kubik John R. Moran, Lethal Elections: Gubernatorial Politics and the Timing of Executions, Journal of Law and Economics, 2003.
0.21 Radha Iyengar, Who’s the Fairest in the Land? Analysis of Judge and Jury Death Penalty Decisions, Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.
0.20 Pablo Fajnzylber Daniel Lederman Norman Loayza, Inequality and Violent Crime, Journal of Law and Economics, 2002.
0.18 Emily G. Owens, More Time Less Crime? Estimating the Incapacitative Effect of Sentence Enhancements, Journal of Law and Economics, 2009.
0.18 Todd D. Kendall Robert Tamura, Unmarried Fertility Crime and Social Stigma, Journal of Law and Economics, 2010.
0.16 Amanda Y. Agan, Sex Offender Registries: Fear without Function?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2011.
0.16 Amy Farmer Dek Terrell, Crime versus Justice: Is There a Trade‐Off?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.