John J. Donohue III
C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

John J. Donohue III, David Autor and Stewart Jon Schwab, The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 243, 81 pages, (November 18, 2002).
John J. Donohue III, Tough Talk: Can Guns, or Gun Violence, Be Controlled? Book Review of Can Gun Control Work? by James Jacobs, Oxford University Press, 2002, 13 The American Prospect 35-37 (December 16, 2002).
John J. Donohue III and Ian Ayres, Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics Working Paper No. 247, 106 pages, (October, 2002).
John J. Donohue III and Steven Levitt, The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime, 116 Quarterly Journal of Economics 379-420 (May 2001).
John J. Donohue III, Understanding the Reasons For and Impact of Legislatively Mandated Benefits for Selected Workers, 53 Stanford Law Review 897-914 (April 2001).
John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt, The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests, 44 Journal of Law and Economics 367-394 (October 2001)
John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt, Legalized Abortion and Crime, Stanford Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 1, 1999; Stanford Law School Olin Law & Economics Program Paper No. 177. Available on the Social Science Research Network.
John J. Donohue III, James J. Heckman and Petra Todd, The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 198; Stanford Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 11 (April 2000)
John J. Donohue III, Discrimination in Employment, Document available for the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:
John J. Donohue III, Why We Should Discount the Views of Those Who Discount Discounting, 108 Yale Law 1901-1910 (1999).
John J. Donohue III and Ian Ayres, Nondiscretionary Concealed Weapons Law: A Case Study of Statistics, Standards of Proof, and Public Policy, 1 American Law and Economics Review 436-470 (1999)
John J. Donohue III, The Legal Response to Discrimination: Does Law Matter?, in How Does Law Matter?. Bryant G. Garth and Austin Sarat, eds. Evanston, Il.: Northwestern University Press, 1998. p.45-75.
John J. Donohue III, Discrimination in Employment, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. Peter Newman, ed. New York: Stockton Press, 1998. p.615-624.
John J. Donohue, III, Understanding the Time Path of Crime, 88 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1423 (1998).
John J. Donohue III and Peter Siegelman, Allocating Resources Among Prisons and Social Programs in the Battle Against Crime, 27 Journal of Legal Studies 1-43 (1998).
John J. Donohue III, Did Miranda Diminish Police Effectiveness?, 50 Stanford Law Review 1147-80 (1998).
John J. Donohue and Steven D. Levitt, Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets, 88 American Economic Review 463-467 (May 1998).
John J. Donohue III, Some Thoughts on Law and Economics and the Theory of Second Best, 73 Chicago-Kent Law Review 257-266 (1998).
John J. Donohue III, Some Thoughts on Law and Economics and the Theory of Second Best, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics Working Paper No. 156 (1998).
John J. Donohue III and Steven D. Levitt, The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns and Crime, NBER Working Paper No. 6784, November, 1998. Also, Stanford Law School, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Working Paper No. 168 (November 1998).