John J Donohue
Biographic Data
| ID | 233906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John J Donohue |
| GIVEN NAMES | John J |
| FAMILY NAME | Donohue |
| SIGNATURE | DONOHUE J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why do right to carry laws increase violence? Effects on gun theft and clearance rates
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool
Twenty-five years ago, we argued that it would be possible to reduce incarceration and use the resultant savings for investments in preschool education, which would further lower the crime rate. In this article, we revisit that line of thinking, surveying recent literature on the cost and efficacy of prisons and preschool education for crime reduction. We find that the new evidence strengthens our earlier conclusion about the feasibility of this …
Estimating the effect of U.S. concealed carry laws on homicide
Islam in Transition
9/11 and continued acts of global terrorism have challenged the understanding of academic experts, policymakers, and students, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Critical questions have been raised about Islam and Muslim politics in the modern world: Are Islam and modernity compatible? Is Islam inneed of and capable of reform? What do Islam and what do Muslims have to say about globalization, democracy, human rights, women, jihad, violence, terrorism…
A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico
Increasing Murders but Overall Lower Crime Suggests a Growing Gun Problem
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime
Substantial evidence has documented a powerful "instrumentality" effect: the more lethal the weaponry employed, the greater the likelihood that death will result from any given assault. This finding provides the foundation for the subsequent findings that a variety of measures that restrict the prevalence or limit the permissible types of lethal weaponry can lower the costs of gun violence. The literature has advanced to the point that there is a…
Laws Facilitating Gun Carrying and Homicide
AffiliationsJohn J. Donohue is the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and is with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA
Kaho
No abstract available
Budo Mind and Body
[ES] Nicklaus Suino se ha afirmado como un practicante y acreditado escritor de la tradición marcial japonesa. Escribe trabajos reflexivos y equilibrados sobre budo, y su último trabajo no es una excepción. Budo Mind and Body [Mente y cuerpo en el Budo], es, de hecho, una versión modificada de su trabajo de 1996 Arts of Strength, Arts of Serenity [Artes de Fuerza, Artes de Serenidad]
The Politics of Judicial Opposition
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
The impact of the death penalty on murder
Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Economic Models of Crime and Punishment
John J. Donohue III Economic Models of Crime and Punishment OVER THE LAST 4 5 Y E A R S, THREE M O N U M EN TA L STORIES HAVE d o m in ated th e national American crime scene.* The first was the run up in crime in the 1960s as a num ber of social forces converged into a perfect storm of increased crim inal activity. These forces included the coming of age of the baby boomers and the accompanying and inter related stresses of the massive baby boo…
The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws
We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during the last three decades. We find robust evidence that one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied-contract exception, reduced state employment rates by 0.8% to 1.7%. The initial impact is largest for female and less-educated workers (those who change jobs frequently), while the longer-term effect is greater for older and more-educ…
The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis
The Search for Truth
The single most important advance in the social sciences in the last 25 years has been the enormous improvements in the ability to analyze microdata in order to identify and quantify causal relationships. Some of these gains have come from technological progress, as the vast increases in computing power have enabled the analysis of larger data sets using more sophisticated statistical techniques. Some of these gains have been organizational, as g…
Understanding the Reasons for and Impact of Legislatively Mandated Benefits for Selected Workers
Judging by the long and growing list of relevant federal initiatives, the demand for legislative designed to benefit must be quite strong. Federal law facilitates the unionization of workforces, establishes minimum wages, provides for social security, promotes health insurance coverage for through favorable tax treatment, provides the right to take unpaid leave for certain family emergencies, and regulates pension plans and worker safety. In addi…
The Schooling of Southern Blacks
Did Miranda Diminish Police Effectiveness
The question of whether the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda' decision has significantly hampered law enforcement is fascinating from both a substantive and a methodological perspective. On the substantive front, Professors Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles observe that Justice John Harlan's Miranda dissent insightfully warned that the majority decision could hamper law enforcement in a way that imposed large social costs.2 How large these costs might …
The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation
Employment discrimination cases filed during recessions are more likely to settle after filing and less likely to be won by plaintiffs than those filed when the economy is strong. This model of litigation confirms two predictions of the Priest-Klein model of litigation. First, relatively weak cases (for either party) should be more likely to settle. Second, the party with the greater stake in litigation will have the higher win rate in adjudicate…
Rethinking the Progressive Agenda
Advocacy versus Analysis in Assessing Employment Discrimination Law
The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation
Part I analyzes several socioeconomic and legal changes that may have prompted the rise in employment discrimination litigation and estimates that these factors account for roughly two-thirds of the growth in litigation. Part II attempts to explain the residual growth. After discussing a number of commonly offered explanations, we put forth a somewhat counterintuitive theory of our own: As minorities and women moved into better jobs and the work …
The dimensions of discipleship
Although the modern Japanese martial arts (budo) originated in feudal Japanese combat forms, sprang from a particular cultural matrix, and hence are essentially irrelevant in an age of technological warfare, interest in these arts persists in Japan and with Japanese abroad, and exerts a powerful hold on many non-Japanese practitioners as well. This article explores four aspects of modern budo: formal organization of training halls into hierarchic…
Studying the Iceberg from its Tip
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, determinants of court decisions, and broader social phenomena. We demonstrate that 80 to 90 percent of employment discrimination cases filed in federal court do not produce a published opinion. There are good theoretical reasons to believe that the process generating a published opinion is not random and thus that samples of published cases will no…
The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation
Part I analyzes several socioeconomic and legal changes that may have prompted the rise in employment discrimination litigation and estimates that these factors account for roughly two-thirds of the growth in litigation. Part II attempts to explain the residual growth. After discussing a number of commonly offered explanations, we put forth a somewhat counterintuitive theory of our own: As minorities and women moved into better jobs and the work …
Law and Economics
For the rational study of the law the black-letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921: 83)I do not see how one can grasp the meaning of law within society except from the vantage point of social science.Lawrence M. Friedman (1986: 780)Since both law and society and law and economics apply social science concepts and methods to the problems o…
The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation
Employment discrimination cases filed during recessions are more likely to settle after filing and less likely to be won by plaintiffs than those filed when the economy is strong. This model of litigation confirms two predictions of the Priest-Klein model of litigation. First, relatively weak cases (for either party) should be more likely to settle. Second, the party with the greater stake in litigation will have the higher win rate in adjudicate…
Why do right to carry laws increase violence? Effects on gun theft and clearance rates
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime
Substantial evidence has documented a powerful "instrumentality" effect: the more lethal the weaponry employed, the greater the likelihood that death will result from any given assault. This finding provides the foundation for the subsequent findings that a variety of measures that restrict the prevalence or limit the permissible types of lethal weaponry can lower the costs of gun violence. The literature has advanced to the point that there is a…
Did Miranda Diminish Police Effectiveness
The question of whether the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda' decision has significantly hampered law enforcement is fascinating from both a substantive and a methodological perspective. On the substantive front, Professors Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles observe that Justice John Harlan's Miranda dissent insightfully warned that the majority decision could hamper law enforcement in a way that imposed large social costs.2 How large these costs might …
Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool
Twenty-five years ago, we argued that it would be possible to reduce incarceration and use the resultant savings for investments in preschool education, which would further lower the crime rate. In this article, we revisit that line of thinking, surveying recent literature on the cost and efficacy of prisons and preschool education for crime reduction. We find that the new evidence strengthens our earlier conclusion about the feasibility of this …
Laws Facilitating Gun Carrying and Homicide
AffiliationsJohn J. Donohue is the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and is with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA
Rethinking the Progressive Agenda
Increasing Murders but Overall Lower Crime Suggests a Growing Gun Problem
Economic Models of Crime and Punishment
John J. Donohue III Economic Models of Crime and Punishment OVER THE LAST 4 5 Y E A R S, THREE M O N U M EN TA L STORIES HAVE d o m in ated th e national American crime scene.* The first was the run up in crime in the 1960s as a num ber of social forces converged into a perfect storm of increased crim inal activity. These forces included the coming of age of the baby boomers and the accompanying and inter related stresses of the massive baby boo…
The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis
Advocacy versus Analysis in Assessing Employment Discrimination Law
Ideology and economy in upland Southeast Asia
Posner's Symphony No. 3
In the 100th year following the death of Franz Liszt, Richard Posner has published the third edition of his own classic work, The Economic Analysis of Law. This coincidence is in some sense fitting, for, in many respects, what Liszt was to the piano and musical composition, Posner is to legal scholarship and public policy. Just as Liszt was the dominant figure in the creation of the modem pianist, Posner has presided over the rise of law and econ…
Law and Economics
For the rational study of the law the black-letter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921: 83)I do not see how one can grasp the meaning of law within society except from the vantage point of social science.Lawrence M. Friedman (1986: 780)Since both law and society and law and economics apply social science concepts and methods to the problems o…
Studying the Iceberg from its Tip
Researchers often rely on published opinions to draw conclusions about cases decided by the courts, determinants of court decisions, and broader social phenomena. We demonstrate that 80 to 90 percent of employment discrimination cases filed in federal court do not produce a published opinion. There are good theoretical reasons to believe that the process generating a published opinion is not random and thus that samples of published cases will no…
The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation
Part I analyzes several socioeconomic and legal changes that may have prompted the rise in employment discrimination litigation and estimates that these factors account for roughly two-thirds of the growth in litigation. Part II attempts to explain the residual growth. After discussing a number of commonly offered explanations, we put forth a somewhat counterintuitive theory of our own: As minorities and women moved into better jobs and the work …
The dimensions of discipleship
Although the modern Japanese martial arts (budo) originated in feudal Japanese combat forms, sprang from a particular cultural matrix, and hence are essentially irrelevant in an age of technological warfare, interest in these arts persists in Japan and with Japanese abroad, and exerts a powerful hold on many non-Japanese practitioners as well. This article explores four aspects of modern budo: formal organization of training halls into hierarchic…
Advocacy versus Analysis in Assessing Employment Discrimination Law
Rethinking the Progressive Agenda
The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation
Employment discrimination cases filed during recessions are more likely to settle after filing and less likely to be won by plaintiffs than those filed when the economy is strong. This model of litigation confirms two predictions of the Priest-Klein model of litigation. First, relatively weak cases (for either party) should be more likely to settle. Second, the party with the greater stake in litigation will have the higher win rate in adjudicate…
Did Miranda Diminish Police Effectiveness
The question of whether the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda' decision has significantly hampered law enforcement is fascinating from both a substantive and a methodological perspective. On the substantive front, Professors Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles observe that Justice John Harlan's Miranda dissent insightfully warned that the majority decision could hamper law enforcement in a way that imposed large social costs.2 How large these costs might …
The Schooling of Southern Blacks
Understanding the Reasons for and Impact of Legislatively Mandated Benefits for Selected Workers
Judging by the long and growing list of relevant federal initiatives, the demand for legislative designed to benefit must be quite strong. Federal law facilitates the unionization of workforces, establishes minimum wages, provides for social security, promotes health insurance coverage for through favorable tax treatment, provides the right to take unpaid leave for certain family emergencies, and regulates pension plans and worker safety. In addi…
The Search for Truth
The single most important advance in the social sciences in the last 25 years has been the enormous improvements in the ability to analyze microdata in order to identify and quantify causal relationships. Some of these gains have come from technological progress, as the vast increases in computing power have enabled the analysis of larger data sets using more sophisticated statistical techniques. Some of these gains have been organizational, as g…
The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis
The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws
We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections adopted by U.S. state courts during the last three decades. We find robust evidence that one wrongful-discharge doctrine, the implied-contract exception, reduced state employment rates by 0.8% to 1.7%. The initial impact is largest for female and less-educated workers (those who change jobs frequently), while the longer-term effect is greater for older and more-educ…
Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Economic Models of Crime and Punishment
John J. Donohue III Economic Models of Crime and Punishment OVER THE LAST 4 5 Y E A R S, THREE M O N U M EN TA L STORIES HAVE d o m in ated th e national American crime scene.* The first was the run up in crime in the 1960s as a num ber of social forces converged into a perfect storm of increased crim inal activity. These forces included the coming of age of the baby boomers and the accompanying and inter related stresses of the massive baby boo…
The impact of the death penalty on murder
The Politics of Judicial Opposition
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Kaho
No abstract available
Budo Mind and Body
[ES] Nicklaus Suino se ha afirmado como un practicante y acreditado escritor de la tradición marcial japonesa. Escribe trabajos reflexivos y equilibrados sobre budo, y su último trabajo no es una excepción. Budo Mind and Body [Mente y cuerpo en el Budo], es, de hecho, una versión modificada de su trabajo de 1996 Arts of Strength, Arts of Serenity [Artes de Fuerza, Artes de Serenidad]
Laws Facilitating Gun Carrying and Homicide
AffiliationsJohn J. Donohue is the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and is with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA
Islam in Transition
9/11 and continued acts of global terrorism have challenged the understanding of academic experts, policymakers, and students, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Critical questions have been raised about Islam and Muslim politics in the modern world: Are Islam and modernity compatible? Is Islam inneed of and capable of reform? What do Islam and what do Muslims have to say about globalization, democracy, human rights, women, jihad, violence, terrorism…
A panel-based proxy for gun prevalence in US and Mexico
Increasing Murders but Overall Lower Crime Suggests a Growing Gun Problem
Political science (22 works) · Law (18 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Poison control (6 works)