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Hunter, Charles
hybrids
identity
ImClone
“Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, The” (Levitt)
incentives
bright-line vs. murky
change of
as cornerstone of modern life
criminal
definitions of
discovery and understanding of
economic
of experts
invention and enactment of
moral
negative vs. positive
for organ donation
power of
of real-estate agents
response to
schemes based on
of schoolteachers
social
study
tinkering with
trade-offs inherent in
for voting
infanticide
information:
abuse of
assumption of
asymmetric
dissemination of
expert
false
media and
in personal ads
power of
recording of
secret
withholding and editing of
see also data
insider trading
insomnia
Institute of Medicine
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Oversight Board of
Internet
comparative shopping on
information as currency of
voting on
see also dating, online
intuition
Iowa Test of Basic Skills
iPODs
Iraq:
U.S. invasion of
weapons of mass destruction and
I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan (Kennedy)
Jacob, Brian
Japanese Sumo Association
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeremijenko, Natalie
Jeremijenko-Conley, Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles
Jim Crow laws
jobs
interviews for
loss of
payment for
John Bates Clark Medal
Johnson, D. Gale
Journal of Political Economy
Joyce, Ted
J. T. (gang leader)
Justice Department, U.S.
Kaczynski, Ted
Kansas City Royals
Kennedy, Anthony
Kennedy, Stetson
anti-KKK campaign of
doubts about veracity of
Kennedy School of Government
“Kidney Beancounters”
Klan Unmasked, The (Kennedy)
Kranton, Rachel
Krugman, Paul
Ku Klux Klan
collusion of law enforcement with
founding of
revenue sources of
rituals and language of
terrorist aims of
undercover exposé of
up-and-down history of
“Labor Market Consequence of Graduating College in a Bad Economy, The”
Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of
Lafayette College
Lane, Loser
Lane, Robert
Lane, Winner
Latinos
Lee, Robert E.
Levitt, Amanda
Levitt, Andrew
Levitt, Jeanette
Levitt, Steven D.:
awards and credentials of
curiosity of
family life of
fundamental ideas of
gambling and
New York Times Magazine profile on
physical appearance of
salary of
unorthodox approach of
in Wikipedia
Library of Congress
Lieber, Ethan
life insurance:
comparative shopping for
falling cost of
term vs. whole
LifeSharers
Listerine
Little League baseball
Lott, John R., Jr.
Lott, Trent
lying
lynching
Maass, Peter
McCorvey, Norma
McDonald’s
McLemee, Scott
macroeconomics
mad-cow disease
Madonna
Mafia
Major League baseball
Malthus, Thomas
managers
markets:
oil and
for organ donation
Marks, Johnny
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
mathematics
game theory and
May, Robert
measurement
economics as science of
tools of
Mecka, Lauren
media
experts and
information and
Medicare
Merrill Lynch
Mexico, prostitution in
microeconomics
Mills, Richard P.
Miyake, Mitsuru
Monday Night Football
money:
banking and investment of
bribes of
drug-dealing and
embezzlement of
laundering of
oil and
politics and
stealing of
Moore, Harry T.
morality
economics vs.
incentives and
self-interest and
More Guns, Less Crime (J. Lott)
Morris, William
Moses, Zelman
Mulligan, Casey
murder. See homicide
Murphy, Kevin
Mussolini, Benito
mutual funds
names
Asian-American
black female
black male
brand
changing of
destiny and
European
Hebrew
Irish
Jewish
Latino
misspelling of
most popular
parental education and
socioeconomic status and
source of
white female
white male
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Football League (NFL)
National Health and Social Life Survey
National Research Program
national security
“Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes The” (Sacerdote)
Navy, U.S.
Net Misreporting Percentage
New Hampshire, 1890 Congressional race in
Newsday
New York, City College of
New York Police Department (NYPD)
traffic violations and
New York Times
New York Times Magazine
New York Yankees
Nobel Prize
No Child Left Behind law
Nostradamus
Nozick, Robert
Nurture Assumption, The (Harris)
nylon stockings
obstetricians
O’Connor, Sandra Day
oil, peak
olive oil
Olympic Games
corrupt judging of
“On Behalf of a Moratorium on Prison Construction”
On the Waterfront
OPEC
“Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action”
parents
abandonment by
adoptive
African-American
conflicting advice to
fearfulness of
influence of
names chosen by
obsessiv
e
punishment by
single
status and education of
tardy day-care pickups by
Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Parks Department
parole revocation
Patinkin, Mandy
peak oil
Pearson, Drew
Pennsylvania State University
Perkins, Brady
Perkins, John
Pinker, Steven
Pittsburgh Courier
Plato
Plessy v. Ferguson
police
crime statistics and
increased numbers of
innovative strategies of
political science
politicians
liberal vs. conservative
lying by
poop, dog
Porter, Jack
pregnancy tests
Princess Bride, The (Patinkin)
Princeton University
Prisoner’s Dilemma
prisons:
crime rates and
homosexuality in
prostitution
racism
segregation and
see also Jim Crow laws; lynching
Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children (Hulbert)
randomness
rape
real-estate agents
clients’ best interests and
commissions of
incentives of
sale of personal homes by
terms used by
Reconstruction
regression analysis
Rehnquist, William
Republic (Plato)
résumés
“Ring of Gyges, The” (Plato)
Riordan, Richard
Ripley, Amanda
robbery
Roberts, Seth
Roe, Jane. See McCorvey, Norma
Roe v. Wade
Rogers, Will
Rosenthal, Robert
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (May)
Sacerdote, Bruce
Sachs, Jeffrey
Sailer, Steve
Salmon, Felix
Salomon Smith Barney
Samuelson, Paul
Sandman, Peter
Satel, Sally
Scalia, Antonin
Schelling, Thomas
Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs)
schools
choice of
desegregation of
quality of
see also students; testing
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Seale, Bobby
Seinfeld
self-esteem
self-experimentation
self-interest
of experts
impartial observation vs.
truth and
Sen, Amartya
Senate, U.S.
September 11 terrorist attacks
sex
oral
sex education
sex scandals
Shangri-La Diet
Shawn, William
sleep
Slemrod, Joel
Smith, Adam
smoking
Snyder, Mitch
social promotion
social science
Social Security
societal norms
sociologists
Socrates
Soviet Union, collapse of
Spears, Britney
Splash
sports:
cheating in
drugs in
gambling on
glamour of
incentives in
judging of
throwing matches and games in
Stanford University
Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences
Law School
state-year interaction
stealing
white-collar
Stetson, John B.
“Stetson Kennedy: Applied Folklore and Cultural Advocacy” (Bulger)
Stetson Kennedy Day
Stetson University
Stewart, Martha
stock market
Stone Age
storytelling
students:
black vs. white
cheating by
Latino
measuring academic performance of
minority
social promotion of
study incentives of
testing of
sugar water
sumo wrestling
cheating and corruption in
data on
elite tournaments in
history and tradition of
incentives in
media scrutiny in
ranking and earnings in
superpredators
support groups
Supreme Court, U.S.
SUVs
swimming pools, drowning in
Switzerland
Szilagyi, John
taxes
cheating on
evasion of
“sin”
withholding of
tax gap
teachers