John R. Lott

Overview

Best Publications

• More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws

  John R. Lott

  1011
  Citations

• Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns

  John R. Lott;David B. Mustard

  971
  Citations

• The Reputational Penalty Firms Bear from Committing Criminal Fraud

  Jonathan M. Karpoff;John R. Lott

  890
  Citations

• Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

  John R. Lott;Lawrence W. Kenny

  702
  Citations

• Term limits and electoral competitiveness: Evidence from California’s state legislative races

  Kermit Daniel;John R. Lott

  419
  Citations

• Reforming products liability

  W. Kip Viscusi

  411
  Citations

• How Dramatically Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

  John Lott;Larry Kenny

  378
  Citations

• Does a Helping Hand Put Others At Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime

  John R. Lott

  338
  Citations

• Punitive Damages: Their Determinants, Effects on Firm Value, and the Impact of Supreme Court and Congressional Attempts to Limit Awards

  John Lott;Jonathan M. Karpoff

  334
  Citations

• DO CAMPAIGN DONATIONS ALTER HOW A POLITICIAN VOTES? OR, DO DONORS SUPPORT CANDIDATES WHO VALUE THE SAME THINGS THAT THEY DO?*

  Stephen G. Bronars;John R. Lott

  291
  Citations

• A Simple Explanation for Why Campaign Expenditures are Increasing: The Government is Getting Bigger

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  277
  Citations

• Legislator voting and shirking: A critical review of the literature

  Bruce Bender;John R. Lott;John R. Lott

  266
  Citations

• Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement

  John R. Lott;William M. Landes

  222
  Citations

• Environmental Violations, Legal Penalties, and Reputation Costs

  John Lott;Jonathan M. Karpoff;Graeme Rankine

  199
  Citations

• On the Determinants and Importance of Punitive Damage Awards

  Jonathan M. Karpoff;John R. Lott

  195
  Citations

• Time series evidence on shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives

  John R. Lott;Stephen G. Bronars

  185
  Citations

• An Explanation for Public Provision of Schooling: The Importance of Indoctrination

  Jr. John R. Lott

  175
  Citations

• Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism

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  160
  Citations

• An Attempt at Measuring the Total Monetary Penalty from Drug Convictions: The Importance of an Individual's Reputation

  Jr. John R. Lott

  153
  Citations

• The Reputational Penalties for Environmental Violations: Empirical Evidence

  Jonathan M. Karpoff;John R. Lott;Eric W. Wehrly

  79
  Citations

• In defense of criminal defense expenditures and plea bargaining

  Bruce H. Kobayashi;John R. Lott

  60
  Citations

• Why Comply: One-Sided Enforcement of Price Controls and Victimless Crime Laws

  John R. Lott;Russell D. Roberts

  31
  Citations

• Criminal Deterrence, Geographic Spillovers, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns

  Stephen G. Bronars;John R. Lott

  31
  Citations

• The level of optimal fines to prevent fraud when reputations exist and penalty clauses are unenforceable

  John R. Lott

  25
  Citations

• Multiple Victim Public Shootings

  John R. Lott;William M. Landes;William M. Landes

  22
  Citations

• Low-probability-high-penalty enforcement strategies and the efficient operation of the plea-bargaining system

  Bruce H. Kobayashi;John R. Lott

  20
  Citations

• The expected penalty for committing a crime

  Russell D. Roberts;John R. Lott

  20
  Citations

• Confirming More Guns, Less Crime

  John R. Lott;Florenz Plassmann;John E Whitley

  14
  Citations

• Evidence of Voter Fraud and the Impact that Regulations to Reduce Fraud Have on Voter Participation Rates

  John R. Lott

  13
  Citations

• Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings? A Comment on Adam Lankford

  John R. Lott;Carlisle E. Moody

  8
  Citations

• The Judicial Confirmation Process: The Difficulty in Being Smart

  John R. Lott

  7
  Citations

• How a Botched Study Fooled the World About the U.S. Share of Mass Public Shootings: U.S. Rate is Lower than Global Average

  John R. Lott

  6
  Citations

• Should Criminal Penalties Include Third-Party Avoidance Costs?

  Kermit Daniel;John R. Lott

  6
  Citations

• Undocumented Immigrants, U.S. Citizens, and Convicted Criminals in Arizona

  John R. Lott

  2
  Citations

• Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime Revisited: Clustering, Measurement Error, and State-by-State Break downs

  John R. Lott

  1
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