John R Lott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5684194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Lott |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lott |
| SIGNATURE | LOTT J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 376 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Estimating the effect of concealed carry laws on murder
Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased
ABA ratings
Non-voted ballots, the cost of voting, and race
Campaign finance reform and electoral competition
The Reputational Penalties for Environmental Violations
This paper examines the sizes of the fines, damage awards, remediation costs, and market value losses imposed on companies that violate environmental regulations. Firms that violate environmental laws suffer statistically significant losses in the market value of firm equity. The losses, however, are of similar magnitudes to the legal penalties imposed, and in the cross section, the market value loss is related to the size of the legal penalty. T…
The impact of early media election calls on Republican voting rates in Florida’s western Panhandle counties in 2000
More Guns, Less Crime
Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for 1870–1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting …
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism
Governments use public education and public ownership of the media to control the information that their citizens receive. More totalitarian governments as well as those with larger wealth transfers make greater investments in publicly controlled information. This finding is borne out from cross‐sectional time‐series evidence acros countries and is confirmed when the recent fall of communism is specifically examined. My results reject the standar…
Crime, Deterrence, and Right‐to‐Carry Concealed Handguns
Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes, without increasing accidental deaths. If those states without right‐to‐carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, county‐ and state‐level data indicate that approximately 1,500 murders would have been avoided yearly. Similarly, we predict that rapes would have declined by over 4…
Does political reform increase wealth
Term limits and electoral competitiveness
The reputational penalty firms bear from committing criminal fraud
Optimal penalties for corporate fraud require that firms face expected penalties equal to the total social costs of the crime. Yet formal courtimposed sanctions for committing fraud often represent a small fraction of the damage produced by the fraud. Sheer and Ho (1989), for example, estimate that the median and mean ratios of criminal fines to the private loss from private fraud were 0.14 and 0.73 in 1988. The corresponding median and mean rati…
Legislator voting and shirking
Time series evidence on shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives
A critical review and an extension of the political shirking literature
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Reforming Products Liability
Preface 1. Diagnosing the Liability Crisis Perspectives on Liability Reform Recent Trends in Products Liability Proposals for Reform 2. The Dimensions of the Liability Crisis Accident Rates Decline, But Litigation Soars The Surge in Asbestos Litigation Insurance Industry Trends Roots of the Insurance Crisis, 1980-1984 Other Economic Effects of Products Liability The Design Defect Doctrine and Hazard Warnings 3. The Litigation Process The Overall …
Does additional campaign spending really hurt incumbents
Shirking and sorting in a political market with finite-lived politicians
Production costs and deregulation
Racial Employment and Earnings Differentials
Televising legislatures
Externalities, agency structure, and the level of transfers
Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for 1870–1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting …
Political cheating
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism
Governments use public education and public ownership of the media to control the information that their citizens receive. More totalitarian governments as well as those with larger wealth transfers make greater investments in publicly controlled information. This finding is borne out from cross‐sectional time‐series evidence acros countries and is confirmed when the recent fall of communism is specifically examined. My results reject the standar…
Time series evidence on shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives
Shirking and sorting in a political market with finite-lived politicians
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Term limits and electoral competitiveness
Brand names and barriers to entry in political markets
Does additional campaign spending really hurt incumbents
"Should the Wealthy Be Able to "Buy Justice
This paper shows that allowing wealthy individuals to influence the outcome of their trials through the purchase of legal services can be consistent with the optimal penalty literature. Using this analysis, the author reviews some of the advantages and disadvantages of varying the length of jail terms versus varying the probability of conviction. Finally, implications for the bail, prosecutorial, and plea bargaining systems are examined. Copyrigh…
The impact of early media election calls on Republican voting rates in Florida’s western Panhandle counties in 2000
Is newspaper coverage of economic events politically biased
Non-voted ballots, the cost of voting, and race
Campaign finance reform and electoral competition
The institutional arrangement of public education
Does political reform increase wealth
Reforming Products Liability
Preface 1. Diagnosing the Liability Crisis Perspectives on Liability Reform Recent Trends in Products Liability Proposals for Reform 2. The Dimensions of the Liability Crisis Accident Rates Decline, But Litigation Soars The Surge in Asbestos Litigation Insurance Industry Trends Roots of the Insurance Crisis, 1980-1984 Other Economic Effects of Products Liability The Design Defect Doctrine and Hazard Warnings 3. The Litigation Process The Overall …
Televising legislatures
On nationalizing private property and the present value of dictators
On nationalizing private property and the present value of dictators
Brand names and barriers to entry in political markets
Externalities, agency structure, and the level of transfers
The institutional arrangement of public education
Political cheating
"Should the Wealthy Be Able to "Buy Justice
This paper shows that allowing wealthy individuals to influence the outcome of their trials through the purchase of legal services can be consistent with the optimal penalty literature. Using this analysis, the author reviews some of the advantages and disadvantages of varying the length of jail terms versus varying the probability of conviction. Finally, implications for the bail, prosecutorial, and plea bargaining systems are examined. Copyrigh…
Televising legislatures
Shirking and sorting in a political market with finite-lived politicians
Production costs and deregulation
Racial Employment and Earnings Differentials
Does additional campaign spending really hurt incumbents
A critical review and an extension of the political shirking literature
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Reforming Products Liability
Preface 1. Diagnosing the Liability Crisis Perspectives on Liability Reform Recent Trends in Products Liability Proposals for Reform 2. The Dimensions of the Liability Crisis Accident Rates Decline, But Litigation Soars The Surge in Asbestos Litigation Insurance Industry Trends Roots of the Insurance Crisis, 1980-1984 Other Economic Effects of Products Liability The Design Defect Doctrine and Hazard Warnings 3. The Litigation Process The Overall …
Time series evidence on shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives
The reputational penalty firms bear from committing criminal fraud
Optimal penalties for corporate fraud require that firms face expected penalties equal to the total social costs of the crime. Yet formal courtimposed sanctions for committing fraud often represent a small fraction of the damage produced by the fraud. Sheer and Ho (1989), for example, estimate that the median and mean ratios of criminal fines to the private loss from private fraud were 0.14 and 0.73 in 1988. The corresponding median and mean rati…
Legislator voting and shirking
Crime, Deterrence, and Right‐to‐Carry Concealed Handguns
Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992, we find that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes, without increasing accidental deaths. If those states without right‐to‐carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, county‐ and state‐level data indicate that approximately 1,500 murders would have been avoided yearly. Similarly, we predict that rapes would have declined by over 4…
Does political reform increase wealth
Term limits and electoral competitiveness
More Guns, Less Crime
Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross‐sectional time‐series data for 1870–1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting …
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism
Governments use public education and public ownership of the media to control the information that their citizens receive. More totalitarian governments as well as those with larger wealth transfers make greater investments in publicly controlled information. This finding is borne out from cross‐sectional time‐series evidence acros countries and is confirmed when the recent fall of communism is specifically examined. My results reject the standar…
The Reputational Penalties for Environmental Violations
This paper examines the sizes of the fines, damage awards, remediation costs, and market value losses imposed on companies that violate environmental regulations. Firms that violate environmental laws suffer statistically significant losses in the market value of firm equity. The losses, however, are of similar magnitudes to the legal penalties imposed, and in the cross section, the market value loss is related to the size of the legal penalty. T…
The impact of early media election calls on Republican voting rates in Florida’s western Panhandle counties in 2000
Economics (26 works) · Law (26 works) · Political science (26 works) · Politics (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Public finance (17 works) · Business (11 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (10 works) · Public economics (10 works) · Macroeconomics (9 works)