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Overview

John J. Donohue is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with notable contributions across various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Health, Clinical Psychology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Gender Studies.

The scientist's work spans significant topics such as Gun Ownership and Violence Research, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse, Torture, Ethics, and Law, and Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses.

Recent papers authored by Donohue include:

  • The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades (2020), published in American Law and Economics Review
  • The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime (2022), published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Why do right to carry laws increase violence? Effects on gun theft and clearance rates (2025), published in Journal of Urban Economics
  • Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Preschool: An Analysis of the New Evidence (2024), published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthew Bondy
  • Philip J. Cook
  • Julio Trecenti
  • Ivan César Ribeiro
  • Samuel V. Cai

Donohue's publications are often featured in journals such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, International Review of Law and Economics, American Law and Economics Review, and Journal of Urban Economics.

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

    John J. Donohue Iii;Justin Wolfers

  • The Changing Nature of Employment Discrimination Litigation

    John J. Donohue;Peter Siegelman

  • Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks

    John Donohue;James Heckman

  • The costs of wrongful-discharge laws

    David H. Autor;John J. Donohue;Stewart J. Schwab

  • Allocating Resources Among Prisons And Social Programs In The Battle Against Crime

    John J. Donohue;Peter Siegelman

  • Studying the Iceberg from Its Tip: A Comparison of Published and Unpublished Employment Discrimination Cases

    John Donohue;Peter Siegelman

  • THE IMPACT OF RACE ON POLICING AND ARRESTS

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • Shooting Down the ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Hypothesis

    Ian Ayres;John J Donohue

  • Collaborative evaluation in North America: Evaluators' self-reported opinions, practices and consequences

    J. Bradley Cousins;John J. Donohue;Gordon A. Bloom

  • The Selection of Employment Discrimination Disputes for Litigation: Using Business Cycle Effects to Test the Priest-Klein Hypothesis

    Peter Siegelman;John J. Donohue

  • Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • Prohibiting Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: An Economic Perspective

    John J. Donohue Iii

  • Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • The Employment Consequences of Wrongful-Discharge Laws: Large, Small, or None at All?

    David H. Autor;John J. Donohue;Stewart J. Schwab

  • Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on Murder

    John J. Donohue;Justin Wolfers

  • The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

    John J. Donohue;John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt;Steven D. Levitt;Steven D. Levitt

  • Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis

    John J Donohue;Abhay Aneja;Kyle D Weber

  • Legalized Abortion and Crime

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • THE SCHOOLING OF SOUTHERN BLACKS: THE ROLES OF LEGAL ACTIVISM AND PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY, 1910-1960*

    John J. Donohue;James J. Heckman;Petra E. Todd

  • Nondiscretionary concealed weapons law: a case study of statistics, standards of proof, and public policy

    I. Ayres;John J. Donohue

  • The Impact of Damage Caps on Malpractice Claims: Randomization Inference with Difference-in-Differences

    John J. Donohue;Daniel E. Ho

  • Assessing the Relative Benefits of Incarceration: The Overall Change Over the Previous Decades and the Benefits on the Margin

    John Donohue

  • Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

    John Donohue;Steven Levitt

  • The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence

    John Donohue;Justin J Wolfers

  • The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing

    John J. Donohue;Jeffrey Grogger;Steven D. Levitt

  • Guns, Crime, and the Impact of State Right-to-Carry Laws

    John J. Donohue

  • The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

    Abhay Aneja;John Donohue;Alexandria Zhang

  • Opting for the British Rule: Or, If Posner and Shavell Can't Remember the Coase Theorem, Who Will?

    John J. Donohue

  • More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006

    John J. Donohue Iii;Ian Ayres

  • Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis

    John Donohue;Abhay Aneja;Kyle D. Weber

  • Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis

    John J. Donohue;Ian Ayres

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres Yale University
Joshua Aronson
Joshua Aronson New York University
Steven Shavell
Steven Shavell Harvard University
Philip J. Cook
Philip J. Cook Duke University
David M. Studdert
David M. Studdert Stanford University
Michelle M. Mello
Michelle M. Mello Stanford University

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