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Why The Nra Fights Background Checks, John J. Donohue
Why The Nra Fights Background Checks, John J. Donohue
John Donohue
"We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone." Did President Barack Obama say that? No, that's from an advertisement taken out by the NRA in USA Today in 1999.
But a more powerful NRA today is in no mood to follow the slogan of their "be reasonable" ad campaign of 14 years ago. This relatively small group -- the NRA boasts that it has 4.5 million members, which is peanuts compared to the roughly 40 million AARP members -- might have the political power to …
Testimony In Support Of Connecticut Senate Bill 1035 And House Bill 6425, Abolishing The Death Penalty (2011), John J. Donohue
Testimony In Support Of Connecticut Senate Bill 1035 And House Bill 6425, Abolishing The Death Penalty (2011), John J. Donohue
John Donohue
In 1975, Isaac Ehrlich launched the modern econometric evaluation of the impact of the death penalty on the prevalence of murder with a controversial paper that concluded that each execution would lead to eight fewer homicides (Ehrlich 1975). A year later, the Supreme Court cited Ehrlich’s work in issuing an opinion ending the execution moratorium that had started with the 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia. Today it is widely recognized that Ehrlich's national time-series methodology is too unreliable to be published in any economics journal.
Over the last few years, a number of highly technical papers have purported to …
More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence From 1977 – 2006, John Donohue, Ian Ayres
More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence From 1977 – 2006, John Donohue, Ian Ayres
John Donohue
No abstract provided.
Yet Another Refutation Of The More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody And Marvell, Ian Ayres, John Donohue
Yet Another Refutation Of The More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody And Marvell, Ian Ayres, John Donohue
John Donohue
No abstract provided.
Fighting Crime: An Economists View, John Donohue
The Final Bullet In The Body Of The More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, John Donohue
The Final Bullet In The Body Of The More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, John Donohue
John Donohue
No abstract provided.
The Schooling Of Southern Blacks: The Roles Of Legal Activism And Private Philanthropy, 1910–1960*, John J. Donohue, James J. Heckman, Petra E. Todd
The Schooling Of Southern Blacks: The Roles Of Legal Activism And Private Philanthropy, 1910–1960*, John J. Donohue, James J. Heckman, Petra E. Todd
John Donohue
Improvements in education and educational quality are widely acknowledged to be major contributors to black economic progress in the twentieth century. This paper investigates the sources of improvement in black education in the South in the first half of the century and demonstrates the important roles of social activism, especially NAACP litigation and private philanthropy, in improving the quality and availability of public schooling. Many scholars view education as a rival to social activism in explaining black economic progress, but such a view misses the important role of philanthropic and legal interventions in promoting education.
The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime, John Donohue, Steven D. Levitt
The Impact Of Legalized Abortion On Crime, John Donohue, Steven D. Levitt
John Donohue
We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime.
Further Thoughts On Employment Discrimination Legislation: A Reply To Judge Posner, John Donohue
Further Thoughts On Employment Discrimination Legislation: A Reply To Judge Posner, John Donohue
John Donohue
No abstract provided.
A Continuous-Time Stochastic Model Of Job Mobility: A Comparison Of Male-Femals Hazard Rates Of Young Workers, John J. Donohue
A Continuous-Time Stochastic Model Of Job Mobility: A Comparison Of Male-Femals Hazard Rates Of Young Workers, John J. Donohue
John Donohue
This study examines male and female hazard rates in the periods 1968-1971 and 1979-1982 using data for young workers from the various samples of the National Longitudinal Surveys. Contrary to a number of previous micro-data studies, I demonstrate that for the period 1968-1971 female workers quit their initial full-time jobs at substantially higher rates than male workers. Moreover, while male hazard rates show a monotonic decline, female rates show a nonmonotonic u-shaped pattern, which I attribute to a "birth effect" -- young women leaving the labor force to have children.
For the period 1979-1982, however, young women had become almost …